List of Polish-language authors

Notable Polish novelists, poets, playwrights, historians and philosophers, listed in chronological order by year of birth:

(ca.1465–after 1529) Biernat of Lublin
(1482–1537) Andrzej Krzycki
(1503–1572) Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski
(1505–1569) Mikołaj Rej
(ca. 1525–1573) Piotr z Goniądza
(1530–1584) Jan Kochanowski
(1566–1636) Fabian Birkowski
(1580–1653) Szymon Okolski
(1694–1774) Przybysław Dyjamentowski
(1720–1784) Franciszek Bohomolec
(1733–1798) Adam Naruszewicz
(1734–1823) Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski
(1735–1801) Ignacy Krasicki
(1746–1835) Izabela Fleming Czartoryska
(1750–1812) Hugo Kołłątaj
(1755–1826) Stanisław Staszic
(1757–1841) Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
(1761–1815) Jan Potocki
(1762–1808) Franciszek Ksawery Dmochowski
(1765–1809) Cyprian Godebski
(1768–1854) Maria Wirtemberska
(1770–1861) Adam Jerzy Czartoryski
(1771–1820) Alojzy Feliński
(1786–1861) Joachim Lelewel
(1787–1861) Antoni Gorecki
(1791–1835) Kazimierz Brodziński
(1793–1876) Aleksander Fredro
(1798–1855) Adam Mickiewicz
(1801–1869) Franciszek Ksawery Godebski
(1801–1876) Seweryn Goszczyński
(1804–1886) Michał Czajkowski
(1807–1875) Karol Libelt
(1809–1849) Juliusz Słowacki
(1812–1859) Zygmunt Krasiński
(1812–1887) Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
(1814–1894) August Cieszkowski
(1817–1879) Ryszard Wincenty Berwiński
(1818–1876) Narcyza Żmichowska
(1819–1890) Agnieszka Baranowska
(1821–1883) Cyprian Kamil Norwid
(1829–1901) Lucyna Ćwierczakiewiczowa
(1838–1897) Adam Asnyk
(1839–1902) Adolf Dygasiński
(1841–1910) Eliza Orzeszkowa
(1846–1916) Henryk Sienkiewicz
(1847–1912) Bolesław Prus
(1849–1935) Michał Bobrzyński
(1852–1930) Kazimierz Bartoszewicz
(1858–1924) Ludwik Stasiak
(1860–1921) Gabriela Zapolska
(1860–1926) Jan Kasprowicz
(1862–1949) Feliks Koneczny
(1864–1925) Stefan Żeromski
(1864–1935) Franciszek Nowicki
(1865–1940) Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer
(1867–1925) Władysław Reymont
(1868-1927) Stanisław Przybyszewski
(1869–1907) Stanisław Wyspiański
(1873–1940) Wacław Berent
(1874–1915) Jerzy Żuławski
(1874–1941) Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński
(1876–1945) Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski
(1877/79–1937) Bolesław Leśmian
(1878–1911) Stanisław Brzozowski
(1878/79–1942) Janusz Korczak
(1881–1946) Paweł Hulka-Laskowski
(1884–1944) Leon Chwistek
(1885–1939) Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy)
(1885–1954) Zofia Nałkowska
(1886–1980) Władysław Tatarkiewicz
(1886–1981) Tadeusz Kotarbiński
(1887–1936) Stefan Grabiński
(1889–1968) Zofia Kossak-Szczucka
(1889–1931) Tadeusz Hołówko
(1889–1965) Maria Dąbrowska
(1890–1963) Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz
(1891-1963) Gustaw Morcinek
(1891–1945) Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska
(1892–1942) Bruno Schulz
(1893–1970) Roman Ingarden
(1894–1942) Józef Stefan Godlewski
(1894–1980) Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz
(1894–1985) Arkady Fiedler
(1895–1959) Stanislaw Mlodozeniec
(1897–1962) Władysław Broniewski
(1898–1939) Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz
(1899–1956) Jan Lechoń
(1900–1966) Jan Brzechwa
(1901–1938) Bruno Jasieński
(1901–1964) Sergiusz Piasecki
(1902–1970) Tadeusz Manteuffel
(1902–1985) Józef Mackiewicz
(1902–1995) Józef Maria Bocheński
(1903-1978) Aleksander Kamiński
(1904–1969) Witold Gombrowicz
(1905–1953) Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński
(1905–1982) Adam Ważyk
(1906–1965) Stanisław Jaśkowski
(1907–1991) Stanislaw Wygodzki
(1908–1979) Sydor Rey
(1908–1995) Helena Bechlerowa
(1909–1942) Henryka Łazowertówna
(1909–1966) Stanisław Jerzy Lec
(1909–1970) Paweł Jasienica
(1909–1983) Jerzy Andrzejewski
(1909–1988) Józef Łobodowski
(1910–2007) Stanisław Dobosiewicz
(1911–1975) Eugeniusz Żytomirski
(1911–2004) Czesław Miłosz
(1912–1990) Adolf Rudnicki
(1913–1979) Zygmunt Witymir Bieńkowski
(1913–2005) Józef Garliński
(1914–1973) Bohdan Arct
(1915–2006) Jan Twardowski
(1916–1991) Wilhelm Szewczyk
(1917–1944) Zuzanna Ginczanka
(1918–1963) Stanisław Grzesiuk
(1919–2000) Gustaw Herling-Grudziński
(1920–2006) Leslaw Bartelski
(1920–1985) Leopold Tyrmand
(1920–2005) Karol Wojtyła (Pope John Paul II)
(1920–2006) Lucjan Wolanowski
(1921–1944) Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński
(1921–2006) Stanisław Lem
(1922–1951) Tadeusz Borowski
(1923–2001) Maksymilian Berezowski
(1923–2003) Władysław Kozaczuk
(1923–2012) Wisława Szymborska
(1924–1998) Zbigniew Herbert
(born 1925) Bat-Sheva Dagan
(born 1926) Tadeusz Konwicki
(born 1927) Leszek Kołakowski
(born 1928) Roman Frister
(1929–1994) Zbigniew Nienacki
(born 1930) Sławomir Mrożek
(1932–1957) Andrzej Bursa
(1932-2013) Joanna Chmielewska
(1932–2007) Ryszard Kapuściński
(1934–1969) Marek Hłasko
(1934–1976) Stanisław Grochowiak
(1935–1984) Janusz Gaudyn
(1936–1997) Agnieszka Osiecka
(born 1937) Hanna Krall
(1938–1985) Janusz A. Zajdel
(born 1938) Janusz Głowacki
(1941–1989) Mirosław Dzielski
(born 1941) Leszek Długosz
(born 1944) Michał Heller
(born 1945) Małgorzata Musierowicz
(1946–2015) Piotr Domaradzki
(born 1946) Ewa Kuryluk
(born 1948) Andrzej Sapkowski
(born 1949) Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm
(born 1952) Eva Stachniak
(born 1955) Leszek Engelking
(born 1957) Grazyna Miller
(born 1957) Paweł Huelle
(born 1957) Agata Tuszynska
(born 1957) Grażyna Wojcieszko
(1958–2005) Tomasz Pacyński
(born 1960) Andrzej Stasiuk
(born 1962) Olga Tokarczuk
(born 1964) Rafal A. Ziemkiewicz
(born 1966) Andrzej Majewski
(born 1980) Jacek Dehnel
(born 1983) Dorota Masłowska
(born 1984) Joanna Lech

See also