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Anna Kochanowska

1922 – 2019

Polish radio journalist, literary director and politician

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Lived 1922 – 2019 (aged 97). Anna Kochanowska was a Polish journalist.

Anna Kochanowska (17 May 1922 – 31 May 2019) was a Polish radio journalist, literary director and politician. She was a representative on the Seym of the sixth and seventh term of the Polish People's Republic.

Life Kochanowska was born in Płock in 1922. Her educated parents were Cecylia and Zygmunt Maciejowski and the family moved to Lodz in 1938. Two years later they were in Warsaw.

She studied at the Film and Theatre schools as well as the Academy of Fine Art before working in Warsaw for the Central Board of Theatres in 1951. She was known as the literary director and she looked after the theaters in Olsztyn, Grudziądz and Białystok. It was in Białystok that she first got a job in radio. At that radio station she got to read her own novel, Czerwony rogatywka to listeners. She had become a radio journalist.

She moved on to be an editor at the radio in Szczecin before joining station in Olsztyn in 1956.

She later became a politician. She was a representative on the Seym of the sixth and seventh term of the Polish People's Republic before the end of communism is the country.

Kochanowska died in 2019 in Olsztyn.

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Important facts

Birth century
Occupation
Nationality
Education
Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Teatralna
Positions held
Member of the Sejm of the Polish People's Republic
Employers
Polskie Radio Olsztyn
Awards
Knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta; Medal of the National Education Commission; Medal of the 30th Anniversary of People's Poland; Zasłużony Działacz Kultury; Honorary badge "Meritorious for Warmia and Mazury"; Badge of the 1000th Anniversary of the Polish State; Gold Cross of Merit‎

Contemporaries

People whose lives overlapped Anna Kochanowska's

Frequently asked questions

Who was Anna Kochanowska?

Polish radio journalist, literary director and politician

When was Anna Kochanowska born?

Anna Kochanowska was born on 17 May 1922 in Płock.

When did Anna Kochanowska die?

Anna Kochanowska died on 31 May 2019 in Olsztyn.

What was Anna Kochanowska's occupation?

Anna Kochanowska was a journalist.

What nationality was Anna Kochanowska?

Anna Kochanowska was Polish.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Anna Kochanowska

· Wikidata: Q11686254

· DBpedia: Anna Kochanowska

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