Michael Hardenfelt (E-mail: m@hardenfelt.pl) – Tourist guide in Warsaw and the rest of Poland. Phone: +48 600 43 53 83

Dansk version

Famous Poles – Art & culture

A very small overview of a very large area. If you want to know more, I recommend “The History Of Polish Literature” by Czesław Miłosz, which is available at international bookshops.

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Olga Tokarczuk is one of the best know contemporary Polish writers

Olga Tokarczuk

Delivers a fine critique of Polish self-perception and historical consciousness in a series of contemporary descriptions and historical novels.

Szymborska - one of the leading Polish writers

Wisława Szymborska

Poet and literary critic

Czesław Miłosz is one of many Polish writers, who were banned during the communist regime

Czesław Miłosz

Diplomat, writer, sharp literary critic

Reymont - one of the leading Polish writers from "Young Poland"

Władysław Reymont

Detailed landscape descriptions and a description of industrialisation from the late 1900s.

Henryk Sienkiewicz is one of the Polish writers telling about Poland as an occupied country

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Brilliant, gripping novels about Polish greatness and a deep ethnocentric European sense of superiority.

Among Polish writers describing Wrsaw in the 1870's

Bolesław Prus

Brilliant descriptions of Warsaw in the 1870s and the social changes of the period.

Polish film director with an enormous production

Andrzej Wajda

Film director. Takes a close look at Polish society with rare insight and extreme film production.

Polanski - Polish controversial film director from the Film School in Lodz

Roman Polanski

Eminent film director with a childhood in the Jewish ghetto and a rape allegation in the US.

Jan Matejko is the great Polish painter of historical moments in the Polish consciousness

Jan Matejko

Has painted all the great moments in Poland’s history. Perhaps he actually created the history of Poland.

Canaletto - Detailed cityscapes from Warsaw in the 1800's

Canaletto

Court painter from 1770. Called Warsaw’s photographic apparatus.

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