Photograph from Anna Milska’s files preserved in the Archives of Biblioteka Donacji Pisarzy Polskich w Domu Literatury [Library Donated by Polish Writers in the House of Literature] in Warsaw.
Anna Milska
, 1909 - 1987
A writer, translator, author of books for children. She graduated from the Faculty of the Humanities at Jan Kazimierz University of Lviv. Then she moved to Vienna to study German and Slavic Philology and obtained her PhD. After returning to Poland she worked as a teacher in secondary schools in Zamość and Warsaw. In 1934 she joined the Communist Party of Poland (KPP) and 3 years later she lost her teaching job. During the war, she was deported with her family from Lviv to Kazakhstan, where she lived for four years. After the war, she returned to Poland and directed the literary publishing house Wydawnictwo Książka in Łódź. Later, she worked at the Central Council of the Trade Unions (CRZZ) and at the Ministry of Culture, where she was responsible for the amateur theatre movement. In 1957, she quit the Communist party controlling the Ministry of Culture. She wrote a lot of books for children and young people but also books about Goethe, Schiller, and Heine, and many other writers. She translated and published some volumes of selected poetry by Goethe, Hölderlin, Kleist, and Rilke. With Wanda Markowska she wrote many collections of fairytales, for example Baśnie z dalekich wysp i lądów [Fairytales from Distant Isles and Lands], 1962.
Bio prepared by Marta Adamska, University of Warsaw, m.adamska91@student.uw.edu.pl and Dorota Bazylczyk, University of Warsaw, dorota@bazylczyk.com
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