‘Famous Poles in Anglo-Saxon culture’

Stanisław Lem,Helena Modjeska

Julia Majczyk, Marta Tomaszewska

Stanisław Lem

Basic Information

Stanisław Lem was born on 12th September 1921 in Lwów.

He died on 27th March 2006 in Krakow. He was a Polish writer of science fiction, philosophy

and satire. In 1982 he moved to Berlin, but he came back to

Poland. In 1983 one more time he moved with his family into Berlin. Then he went to Vienna

Books

His books have been translated into 35 languages and have sold over 27 million copies.He is perhaps best known as the author of the 1961 novel Solaris, which has been made into a feature film three times. Lem's writing is full of intelligent humor, puns, and neologisms, and Michael Kandel's translations into English have been praised by many for capturing Lem's style.

Honors and accolades 1957 – City of Kraków's Prize in Literature (Nagroda Literacka miasta

Krakowa) 1965 – Prize of the Minister of Culture and Art, 2nd Level (Nagroda

Ministra Kultury i Sztuki II stopnia) 1973 – Prize of the Minister of Foreign Affairs for popularization of

Polish culture abroad (nagroda Ministra Spraw Zagranicznych za popularyzację polskiej kultury za granicą)

1976 – State Prize 1st Level in the area of literature (Nagroda Państwowa I stopnia w dziedzinie literatury)

1986 – Austrian State Prize for European Literature 1991 – Austrian literary Franz Kafka Prize 1994 – member of the Polish Academy of Learning 2007 - A street in Krakow is to be named in his honour

Eden is a 1959 science fiction novel by Stanisław Lem. It was first published in English in 1989

Return from the Stars is one of the better knownscience fiction novels of Stanisław Lem.Written in 1961, it revolves around the story of a cosmonautreturning to his homeworld, Earth, and finding it a completelydifferent place than when he left. It was translated into English in 1980.

The Cyberiad (Polish: Cyberiada) is a seriesof short stories by Stanisław Lem.The Polish version was first published in 1965, with an English translation appearing in 1974.

Helena Modjeska

Helena Modjeska Helena Modjeska also spelled

Modrzejewska, original name Helena Opid.

She was born on October 12, 1840 in Kraków, she died on April 9, 1909 in  Bay Island, Newport Beach, near Los Angeles.

Polish-American actress whose repertory included 260 Shakespearean and contemporary roles, some in both Polish and English.

Family

It was the daughterof a musician.

She married an actor, Gustav Modrzejewski, and they joined a company of strolling players.

In 1868 she married Count Bozenta Chlapowski, a politician, and began to act at Warsaw, where she remained for a number of years.

USA In 1876 she went with her husband to California, where

they settled on a ranch. She appeared in San Francisco in 1877, in an English

version of ‘Adrienne Lecouvreur’, in which she was very successful despite her poor English.

She continued to act principally in the United States but was also seen from time to time in London, where in 1881 she fulfilled her ambition to play Shakespeare on an English stage, and elsewhere in the United Kingdom.

Her autobiographical ‘Memories and Impressions’ of ‘Helena Modjeska’ was published in 1910.

Sources

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/387379/Helena-Modjeska

http://www.google.pl/search?tbm=isch&hl=pl&source=hp&biw=1280&bih=834&q=helena+modjeska&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq

http://pl.wikipedia.org http://www.lem.pl/

Thank you!

Julia Majczyk,Marta Tomaszewska