Photograph courtesy of Maciej Jakubowski, the Author’s Nephew, retrieved from Lech Kadlec’s website http://lechkadlec.2ap.pl/autorzy/lochocka_hanna.htm (accessed: February 22, 2013).
Hanna Łochocka
, 1913 - 1995
Poet and prose writer, author of song lyrics and radio plays for children, translator. Educated in Warsaw as an economist and historian, she worked as an editor of economic and historic magazines; she also translated some historical works into Polish (e.g., Édouard Perroy, Roger Doucet, André Latreille, Histoire de la France pour tous les Français. Tome premier: Des origins à 1774, 1950, as Historia Francji: Od początku dziejów do roku 1774, 1969). She began her literary career as a part-time activity in 1947, when her poems were published in children magazines: Świerszczyk [The Little Cricket], Płomyczek [The Little Flame], and later Miś [The Teddy Bear]. While she also wrote poetry for adult readers and published in Poezja [The Poetry], Świat [The World], and Stolica [The Capital], her popularity stems from what she wrote for children (circa 40 books). Sparrow Elemelek – the bird-character of her three books: O wróbelku Elemelku [About Sparrow Elemelek], 1955; Wróbelek Elemelek i jego przyjaciele [Sparrow Elemelek and His Friends], 1962, and Psoty i kłopoty Wróbelka Elemelka [Sparrow Elemelek’s Pranks and Troubles], 1972 – is one of the best known characters of Polish children’s literature.
Sources:
Kadlec, Lech, Hanna Łochocka, http://lechkadlec.2ap.pl/autorzy/lochocka_ hanna.htm (accessed 22.02.2013).
"Łochocka Hanna", in: Krystyna Kuliczkowska; Barbara Tylicka, eds., Nowy słownik literatury dla dzieci i młodzieży, Warszawa: Wiedza Powszechna, 1979, pp. 334–335.
Bio prepared by: Paweł Siechowicz, University of Warsaw, pawelsiechowicz@student.uw.edu.pl
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