Janina Broniewska Explained

Janina Broniewska
Birth Name:Janina Kunig
Birth Date:5 August 1904
Birth Place:Kalisz, Congress Poland
Death Place:Warsaw, Poland
Burial Place:Powązki Military Cemetery
Education:Szkoły Zdobniczej przy Muzeum Rzemiosł i Sztuki Stosowanej
Mother:Jadwiga Gejer
Father:Hugo Oskar Kunig
Spouse:Władysław Broniewski
Children:Joanna Broniewska-Kozicka
Other Names:Bronisława Janowska
Organization:Polish Writers' Union, Society of Fighters for Freedom and Democracy
Occupation:Author
Movement:Socialist realism
Notable Works:O człowieku, który się kulom nie kłaniał (biography of Karol Świerczewski)

Janina Broniewska née Kunig (5 August 1904 – 17 February 1981) was a Polish writer, author of many stories for children and young adults, a publicist and teacher. She subscribed to radically leftist views and became a communist activist, writer and official.

Broniewska was born in Kalisz. Between 1934 and 1937, she was the editor of the magazine Płomyk ('Flame') for children, after which she became the editor of the short lived Gazetka Miki for which she wrote under the pen name Bronisława Janowska.[1] Following the Soviet invasion of Poland, she collaborated with Sztandar Wolności ('The Banner of Freedom'), a newspaper published in Minsk. Between 1944 and 1946, she worked as editor for Polska Zbrojna ('Armed Poland') magazine published at that time for the Polish People's Army. Politically influential in the Polish People's Republic, Broniewska was secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party organization of the Polish Writers' Union. She was the first wife of the poet Władysław Broniewski and a close friend of Wanda Wasilewska.

Broniewska died in Warsaw at the age of 76.

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Notes and References

  1. Borowkin . Stanisław . "Gazetka Miki" (1938-1939) . Kwartalnik Historii Prasy Polskiej . 1988 . 1 . 27 . 39-49 . 15 April 2024 . Muzeum Historii Polski . Polish . 0137-2998.
  2. https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL5051430A/Janina_Broniewska Janina Broniewska, OpenLibrary.org