Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz

Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1894-1980), born at Kalnik, near Kyiv, into a family of the borderland nobility, studied law in Kyiv while attending the conservatory, where he became close to Karol Szymanowski, for whom he wrote an opera libretto. Settled in Warsaw in 1918, a co-founder of the Skamander group, he was secretary to the Marshal of the Sejm Maciej Rataj, then a diplomat in Copenhagen and Brussels from 1932 to 1936. He lived at Stawisko, near Warsaw, presided over the Polish Writers' Union after the war, sat in the Sejm and died on 2 March 1980.

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• Short storiesThe Wilko GirlsPanny z WilkaJarosław Iwaszkiewicz · 1932Literature