Stanisław Pestka

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Stanisław Pestka
Stanisłôw Pestka
Born(1929-04-08)April 8, 1929
Gduńsk, Poland
Other names
  • Jan Zbrzyca
  • Krëban z Milachòwa
Alma mater
Kashubian-Pomeranian Association
Board member ofKaszëbskò-Pòmòrsczé Zrzeszenié

Stanisław Pestka (8 April 1929 – 2 April 2015) was a

Kashubian-Pomeranian Association from 1976 to 1980 and again from 1992 to 1994. He was a Kashubian activist.[2] He died in 2015.[3]

Publications

In 1950 he graduated from the Jozef Wybicki High School in

University of Poznan. After graduation, he worked as a teacher. In 1958 he settled in Gdańsk, cooperated with the magazine Kaszëbë until its liquidation in 1961, in 1961-1965 headed the cultural department of the Ilustrowany Kurier Polski (Illustrated Polish Courier), in 1965-1967 worked at the Polish Radio Broadcasting Station in Szczecin
, in 1967-1968 at the magazine Fakty i Myśli (Facts and Thoughts). From 1968 he lived in Gdańsk again, and was a member of the editorial board of the magazine Litery (1968-1974), the weekly Czas (1975-1981). At the same time he was editor-in-chief of the Pomerania monthly (1969-1972). In the 1980s he worked at the Provincial Cultural Center in Gdańsk, and was again editor-in-chief of Pomerania from 1990-1994.

He published poetry under the pen name Jan Zbrzyca,[3] and his articles and feuilletons were signed Krëban z Milachòwa.[2] (The word krëban or kùrban literally denoting a jar for storing animal fat,[4] while Krëbans also refers to an ethnic subgroup of Kashubians.[5][6])

  • Południca, Gdańsk 1976
  • Wizrë ë duchë, Gdańsk 1986;
  • Wieczòrny widnik, 2002
  • W krainie chmurników, 2011, collection of prose

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