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    Jan Parandowski (11 May 1895 – 26 September 1978) was a Polish writer, essayist, and translator. Best known for his works relating to classical antiquity...
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    first-time among them Jean-Paul Sartre (awarded in 1964), Lennox Robinson, Jan Parandowski, Samuel Beckett (awarded in 1969), Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, André Chamson...
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    boss Bohdan Ihor Antonych (1909–1937), prominent Ukrainian writer Jan Parandowski (1895–1978), writer, essayist, and translator, expert on classical...
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    Studies and American Pen Club) (1988) K. Szczęsny PEN Club Award (1989) Jan Parandowski Polish PEN Club Prize (1990) Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the...
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    Polonia Restituta 1997 – Golden Ball award 1997 – Polish PEN Club award (Jan Parandowski) 1999 – Honorary degree from the University of Silesia 2000 – Order...
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    interbellum – Zofia Nałkowska, Maria Dąbrowska, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Jan Parandowski, Bruno Schultz, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Witold Gombrowicz. Among...
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    org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020. "Nomination Archive - Jan Parandowski". NobelPrize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020. "Nomination...
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  • Charles Palliser (born 1947, US/Scotland) William Palmer (born 1943, US) Jan Parandowski (1895–1978, Poland) Edith Pargeter (1913–1995, England) Delia Parr...
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    of Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Zofia Nałkowska (Romans Teresy Hennert), Jan Parandowski (Król Życia, Adam Grywałd) and the opera King Roger by gay composer...
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  • Iwaszkiewicz, future Nobel Prize winner Czesław Miłosz, Zofia Nałkowska, Jan Parandowski, Leopold Staff, Kazimierz Wyka, and Jerzy Zawieyski. Writers wrote...
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     France novel, memoir, drama, screenplay Marcel Clavel (1894–1976) 34 Jan Parandowski (1895–1978)  Poland essays, translation Ananiasz Zajączkowski (1903–1970)...
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    last Polish Mayor of Lwów and third President of Poland in exile. Jan Parandowski, writer Jakub Karol Parnas, biochemist Teodor Parnicki, historian Aniela...
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    journalist Agnieszka Osiecka - poet and songwriter Jan Parandowski - author, essayist, and translator Jan Rokita - liberal-conservative politician, a member...
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    Andrzej Szczepkowski, and Roma née Parandowska, and the granddaughter of Jan Parandowski. Cinema of Poland List of Polish actors "Joanna Szczepkowska". culture...
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    Broniewski, Marian Czuchnowski, Paweł Hertz, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Jan Parandowski, Antoni Słonimski, Julian Stryjkowski, Melchior Wańkowicz, Jerzy Zawieyski...
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  • Nicholas Nicastro, The Isle of Stone: A Novel of Ancient Sparta (2005) Jan Parandowski, The Olympic Discus (1939) Mary Renault The Mask of Apollo (1966) The...
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    Karhumäki (FIN) Avoveteen  Wilhelm Ehmer (GER) For the Top of the World  Jan Parandowski (POL) Dysk Olimijski 1948 London  Giani Stuparich (ITA) La Grotta  Josef...
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    Authors' Society 46 Leopold Staff (1878–1957)  Poland poetry, translation Jan Parandowski (1895–1978) 47 Albert Steffen (1884–1963)   Switzerland poetry, essays...
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    a laureate of the literary award of the Polish PEN Club, with the Jan Parandowski prize. On 8 March 2013, for outstanding services in researching, documenting...
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    Iwaszkiewicz Mainie Jellett Harald Kreutzberg Henry de Montherlant Jan Parandowski Brenda Putnam Janet Scudder Renée Sintenis Carl Sprinchorn Milly Steger...
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  • awarded none awarded Epic works  Urho Karhumäki (FIN) "Avoveteen"  Wilhelm Ehmer (GER) "For the Top of the World"  Jan Parandowski (POL) "Dysk Olimpijski"...
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  • Count, founder of the Ossolineum, born in Wola Mielecka, near Mielec Jan Parandowski, writer, essayist, and translator, born in Lviv Jakub Karol Parnas...
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    Jan Kott Anna Kowalska Julian Krzyżanowski Kazimierz Feliks Kumaniecki [pl] Edward Lipiński Maria Ossowska Stanisław Cat Mackiewicz Jan Parandowski Stanisław...
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    the Congress of Women, 2010 Ordre national du Mérite, (France), 2012 Jan Parandowski PEN Club Prize, 2018 In Polish: Lucjan Siemieński, poeta romantyczny...
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    Stanisław Ossowski Aleksandr Palladin Aubrey Pankey Andrzej Panufnik Jan Parandowski Max Pechstein Pablo Picasso Oleg Pisarzhevsky (ru) Salvatore Quasimodo...
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    "Teofil" was inspired by Teofil Grodzicki, a fictional character from Jan Parandowski's novel entitled The Sky in Flames. He cooperated with Kazimierz Moczarski...
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    de Balzac, Jules Verne, Graham Greene, C. P. Snow, Edgar Allan Poe, Jan Parandowski, Stanisław Lem, Sławomir Mrożek, Teodor Parnicki, and Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz...
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    Athlete Event Category Title Rank Jan Parandowski Literature Epic works Dysk Olimpijski Stanisław Ostoja-Chrostowski Painting Commercial graphic art Yachting...
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    they hosted many intellectuals of the period, including Jan Parandowski, Maria Dąbrowska, Jan Sztaudynger, Melchior Wańkowicz, Wojciech Kossak, Maria...
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    winning medals. Kreutzberg was openly gay and had "androgynous aspects". Jan Parandowski Poland Literature 1936 Milly Steger  Nazi Germany Sculpture 1936 Mary...
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