Nationality Polish Role Prose writer Movies The Limit | Name Zofia Nalkowska Education Flying University | |
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Born 10 November 1884
Warsaw ( 1884-11-10 ) Notable works Granica (Boundary)
Medaliony (Medallions) Died December 17, 1954, Warsaw, Poland Books Medallions, Choucas: An Internatio, The Romance of Teresa, Kobiety (Women) a Novel of, The Frontier Similar People Tadeusz Borowski, Maria Dabrowska, Gustaw Herling‑Grudzinski, Bruno Schulz, Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont | ||
Zofia nalkowska
Zofia Nalkowska (Warsaw, Congress Poland, 10 November 1884 – 17 December 1954, Warsaw) was a renowned Polish prose writer, dramatist, and prolific essayist. She served as the executive member of the prestigious Polish Academy of Literature (1933–1939) during the interwar period.
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Nalkowska was born into a family of intellectuals dedicated to issues of social justice, and studied at the clandestine Flying University under the Russian partition. Upon Poland's return to independence she became one of the country's most distinguished feminist writers of novels, novellas and stage-plays characterized by socio-realism and psychological depth.
Literary output
Nalkowska's first literary success was the Romans Teresy Hennert (The Romance of Teresa Hennert, 1923) followed by a slew of popular novels. She is best known for her books Granica (Boundary, 1935), the Wezly zycia (Bonds of Life, 1948) and Medaliony (Medallions, 1947).
In her writing, Nalkowska boldly tackled difficult and controversial subjects, professing in her 1932 article "Organizacja erotyzmu" (Structure of Eroticism) published in the Wiadomosci Literackie magazine – the premier literary periodical in Poland at the time – that:
...a rational, nay, intellectual approach to eroticism must be encouraged and strengthened, to allow for a consideration of eroticism in conjunction with other aspects of the life of the human community. Eroticism is not a private matter of the individual. It has its ramifications within all domains of human life and it is not possible to separate it from them by way of contemptuous disparagement in the name of morality, discretion, or yet by a demotion on the hierarchy of subjects worthy of intellectual attention: it cannot be isolated by prudery or relegated to science for its purely biological dimension."