Anna Świderkówna
Anna Świderkówna | |
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Born | Warsaw, Poland | 5 December 1925
Died | 16 August 2008 Warsaw, Poland | (aged 82)
Nationality | Polish |
Genre | history |
Anna Świderkówna (5 December 1925 – 16 August 2008) was a Polish writer and educator.
Biography
She was born in
In 1964, with Mariangela Vandoni, she published Papyrus grecs du Musée Gréco-Romain d’ Alexandrie. She published a number of books in Polish on historical topics for the general public, including Kiedy piaski egipskie przemówiły po grecku ("When the Egyptian Sands Spoke in Greek") (1959), Historie nieznane historii ("Histories Unknown to History") (1962), Hellenika. Wizerunek epoki od Aleksandra do Augusta ("Hellenica. The Age from Alexander to Augustus") (1974) and Siedem Kleopatr ("Seven Cleopatras") (1978). Some of her writing was translated into Czech and Hungarian.[1] She was editor for Słownik pisarzy antycznych ("Dictionary of ancient writers").[2] Świderkówna also published articles in various magazines, including Tygodnik Powszechny and Gazeta Wyborcza.[2]
In 1978, she joined the
Świderkówna died in Warsaw, 16 August 2008, at the age of 82.[1]
Awards
In 2007, she received the literary prize awarded by the Polish PEN Club.[2]
She was posthumously awarded the Officer's Cross in the Order of Polonia Restituta.[3]
References
- ^ a b c "Anna Świderek (Anna Świderkówna) 1925–2008" (PDF). Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean. University of Warsaw.[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b c d e "Anna Świderkówna (1925 - 2008)" (in Polish). Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II.
- ^ "Pochowano prof. Annę Świderkównę". Rzeczpospolita (in Polish). August 21, 2008. Archived from the original on November 13, 2017. Retrieved November 12, 2017.