Janina Broniewska, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Polish writer
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Place of Birth: Kalisz, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland
About Janina Broniewska
- Janina Broniewska née Kunig (5 August 1904 – 17 February 1981) was a Polish writer, author of many stories for children and young adults, a publicist and teacher.
- She subscribed to radically leftist views and became a communist activist, writer and official. Broniewska was born in Kalisz.
- Between 1934 and 1937, she was the editor of the magazine Plomyk ('Flame') for children.
- Following the Soviet invasion of Poland, she collaborated with Sztandar Wolnosci ('The Banner of Freedom'), a newspaper published in Minsk.
- Between 1944 and 1946, she worked as editor for Polska Zbrojna ('Armed Poland') magazine published at that time for the Polish People's Army.
- Politically influential in communist Poland, Broniewska was secretary of the communist party organization of the Polish Writers' Union.
- She was the first wife of the poet Wladyslaw Broniewski and a close friend of Wanda Wasilewska.
- Broniewska died in Warsaw at the age of 76.
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