Kazimiera Zawistowska

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Kazimiera Zawistowska de domo Jasieńska, pseudonym Ira, (1870–1902) was a Polish acclaimed poet and translator.

Zawistowska was an author of modernist erotic and landscape poems related with mysticism, symbolism and Parnassianism. She published her works in Kraków and Warsaw magazines – Życie, Krytyka and Chimera. Zawistowska translated poems of Belgian and French symbolists, including Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Albert Samain.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Notable works 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Biography

Kazimiera Zawistowska was born in 1870 in Rasztowce, Podolia. After education, she moved to Switzerland and Italy. After back to Poland, she married with Stanisław Jastrzębiec-Zawistowski and lived with him in Supranówka in Podolia.

She died on February 28, 1902 in Kraków. The cause of death was probably suicide.

[edit] Notable works

Collections of poems published posthumously

• Poezje (1903) – with preface written by Zenon Przesmycki
• Poezje (1923)
• Utwory zebrane (1982)

[edit] References

• Zawistowska Kazimiera (Polish). Internetowa encyklopedia PWN. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN. Retrieved on 2007-12-12.
• Zawistowska Kazimiera z Jasieńskich (Polish). WIEM Encyklopedia. Retrieved on 2007-12-12.

[edit] External links

• Kazimiera Zawistowska z Jasieńskich (Polish). LIC – Literatura w kontekście.