Famous Polish men and women www'poland'gov'pl

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Famous Polish men and womenwww.poland.gov.pl
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Magdalena Abakanowicz
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Magdalena Abakanowicz (born 1930) - sculptor,
professor at the College of Fine Arts in Poznan,
lecturer at the University of California. She has
some 100 one-woman exhibitions to her name.
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She has received many awards, including the Grand
Culture Foundation Prize in 2001.
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Adam Malysz
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Adam Malysz (born 1977) - ski jumper. In the
2000/2001 season he had a wide array of
astounding victories
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In Predazzo in 2003 he won both gold medals.
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He won the World Cup in 2000/2001,
2001/2002, and 2002/2003.
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He brought back two medals from the Olympics
in Salt Lake City a silver and a bronze.
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Agnieszka Holland
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Agnieszka Holland (born 1948) - film, theatre
and television director.
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She is a member of the European Film Academy and
was nominated for an Oscar for Bitter Harvest

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Her best known films areTo Kill a Priest
(1988), Europa, Europa (1990, Golden Globe),
The Secret Garden (1994),
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Andrzej Wajda
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Andrzej Wajda (born 1926) - director, member of
the Immortal Circle of the French Academy of
Fine Arts.
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His best films areCanal 1957, won the Silver
Palm award at Cannes,Promised land 1974,
nominated for an Oscar, won awards in Gdansk
and Moscow
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Man of Iron (1981, Golden Palm at Cannes)
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In 1996 he was awarded the Silver Bear award
in Berlin. In 2001 the German president
awarded him the Great Cross of Merit.
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Czeslaw Milosz
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Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) - poet, prose
writer, essayist, translator.
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Nobel Prize-winner in 1980 and Polish Nike
Prize-winner in 1998 for The little wayside
dog.
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His most important collections of poetry
areRescue 1945, Daylight 1953, A
Treatise on Poetry, 1957, The City Without a
Name 1969 That 2000
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Fryderyk Chopin
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Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) - pianist and the
greatest Polish composer.
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Spent most of his life abroad, amongst other
places, in France.
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He wrote his works especially for the piano,
including concerts, sonatas, etudes, preludes,
polonaises, mazurkas and waltzes.
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His works had an enormous influence on the music
of the end of the 19th and early 20th
centuries.
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) - renowned
astronomer.
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He studied in Torun, Cracow and then in Bologna,
Padova and Ferrara, where he earned a
doctorate in canonical law.
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As the first in modern times he developed a
heliocentric theory of the Solar System.
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He published his discoveries in the year of his
death in the work On the Revolutions of the
Celestial Spheres
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Krzysztof Kieslowski
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Krzysztof Kieslowski (1941-1996) - film director
and script writer.
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Ten Commandments I - X made in 1988-89
marked his permanent position in the film
world (FIPRESCI award).
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He had similar successes with The double life
of Veronique 1991,
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Three Colours Blue won the Golden Lion in
Venice, Three Colours White Silver Bear in
Berlin and Three Colours Red nominated for
an Oscar)
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He won dozens of awards and distinctions for
his work in film, for example the Felix from
the European Film Academy
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Marek Kaminski
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Marek Kaminski (born 1964) - traveller, in 1995
he was the first person to reach both poles
the North Pole on 23rd May 1995 and the South
Pole on 27 Dec. 1995.
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Roman Polanski
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Roman Polanski (born 1935) - actor, director,
script writer, graduate of the Lódz Film
School.
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Knife in Water1962, Oscar nomination, FIPRESCI
at Venice, Grand Prix at Prades
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Rosemarys Baby 1968Oscar nomination,
Chinatown 1974, Golden Globe in Hollywood,
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Tess 1980, Caesar Award for film and
director,
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Pirates 1986, Frantic 1988, The Pianist
2001, Golden Palm at Cannes.
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He has been a member of the French Academy of
Fine Arts since 1999.
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Robert Korzeniowski
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Robert Korzeniowski (born 1968) - athlete.
Twice Olympic 50 km walking champion, in 1996
and 2000, and 20 km champion in 2000.
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Twice world 50 km walking champion (1997, 2001).
A Council of Europe ambassador for tolerance
and fair play.
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Wislawa Szymborska
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Wislawa Szymborska (born 1923) - poet and
literary critic.
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Awarded Nobel Prize for literature in 1996
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In 2001 she became an honorary member of the
American Academy of Fine Arts and Literature,
the most important American distinction awarded
to renowned artists.
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Her most important collections of verses
areView of a Grain of Sand 1996, Beginning
and End 1993 and A Hundred Verses, a Hundred
Joys 1997
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Aleksander Wolszczan
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Aleksander Wolszczan (born 1946) - astronomer.
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He is a professor at the University of
Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and Torun
University.
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In 1990 he was the first to prove the
existence of a planetary system in the Universe
outside of our solar system.
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John Paul II, Karol Wojtyla (1920-2005)
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He was the first in the history of the Church
to hold prayer meetings with all religions.
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He opened up dialogue with the Jews.
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He was on more than 200 foreign trips, several
times to Poland.