Anna Łajming, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Anna Łajming

Polish writer

Date of Birth: 24-Jul-1904

Date of Death: 13-Jul-1993

Profession: writer, poet

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Anna Lajming (née Anna Zmuda Trzebiatowska) was born on July 24, 1904 in the Kashubian village of Przymuszewo, Chojnice County, one of thirteen children born to Jan and Marianna Zmuda Trzebiatowski .
She died on July 13, 2003 in Slupsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. Although Anna Lajming was a prolific writer of Kashubian and Polish short stories, novels, memoirs, and plays, she did not publish her first work until 1958.
As a young woman, she did clerical work in various towns including Tczew, where she met and married in 1929 a Tsarist Russian refugee named Nikolai Lajming.
They were the parents of a daughter, Wera, and a son, Wlodzimierz.
In 1953 she and her family moved to Slupsk, where her husband's White Russian background would attract less unfavorable notice.
In 2011, Blanche Krbechek and Stanislaw Frymark published The Four Leafed Clover, an English translation of her 1985 short story collection Czterolistna Koniczyna.In 1974, Anna Lajming was awarded the "Stolem" medal by the Kashubian-Pomeranian Association for her contributions to Kashubian culture.
On March 29, 2000, she was named an honorary citizen of the city of Slupsk.
In 2005, the city of Slupsk named Anna Lajming Street (ulica ul.
Anny Lajming) in her honor.