Maria Rosińska
, 1909 - 1992
Maria Rosińska (1909–1992) was a Polish classicist, Latin teacher, and author of poetry, children’s prose, and radio plays for children. Born in Warsaw, she attended Warsaw boarding school for girls led by Leonia Rudzka and later University of Warsaw where she graduated from classical philology in 1932. She worked as a teacher and published her first works in the quarterly Filomata (accessed 12 December, 2025), aimed at high school students. During WW2 she led clandestine lectures in Warsaw. After the fall of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, she was deported to Germany for forced labour. In 1945, she initially stayed in forced emigration camps in Osterfeld and Mülheim an der Ruhr, where she ran a primary school and adult education courses, and managed an amateur and a puppet theatres. There, she wrote texts for children, which were published in 1946 so that they could be used by children in other camps.
After the war she lived in Gliwice and focused on cultural, literature and educational activities aimed at children. She authored several short stories and novels aimed at children. She also published in leading children’s periodicals, such as Iskierki [The Sparklings], Płomyczek [Tiny Flame], Świerszczyk [Little Cricket], and Miś [Teddy Bear], local Silesian periodicals, but also in Filomata which after the war targeted university students and scholars focused on ancient culture and its reception. For years she collaborated with Polish Radio as the author of radio plays and programmes for children.
Source:
"Rosińska Maria" at Polscy pisarze i badacze literatury XX i XXI wieku, Instytut Badań Literackich (accessed: March 9, 2026).
Bio prepared by Marta Pszczolińska, University of Warsaw, m.pszczolinska@al.uw.edu.pl
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