Julia Hartwig

Julia Hartwig-Międzyrzecka (14 August 1921 – 14 July 2017) was a Polish writer, poet and translator, considered to be one of Poland's most important poets.

Life and career She was born and raised in Lublin. She studied Polish and French literature at Warsaw University and continued her studies at the Catholic University of Lublin. Her first poems appeared in the journal Odrodzenie in 1944. Hartwig lived in Paris from 1947-50. In 1954, she published Z niedalekich podróży (From Nearby Places), a collection of articles. She published her first collection of poetry Pożegnania (Farewells) in 1956.

She published translations of French poetry by Guillaume Apollinaire, Blaise Cendrars, Max Jacob, Henri Michaux, and Pierre Reverdy and wrote books on Apollinaire and Gérard de Nerval. She received six nominations for the prestigious Nike Award. She is the winner of the 2014 Wisława Szymborska Award for her book of poetry Zapisane.

Personal life She was married to Zygmunt Kałużyński. In 1954, Hartwig married the poet and activist . They had one daughter, Daniela, with whom they left for the US in 1971. Artur Międzyrzecki died in 1996 in Warsaw.

Her father was , and her brothers were Edward Hartwig and .

Selected works Sources.