Czeslaw Janczarski (2 September 1911 – 19 May 1971) was a Polish writer of children's books as well as a translator from the Russian language. Janczarski was born in the village of Hruszwica, Russian Empire. In 1932 he began studies at Jan Kazimierz University in Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine). Two years later he moved to the Warsaw University, where he studied Polish Philology. There, he got in touch with Józef Czechowicz and other poets. Janczarski spent World War II in Lwów, between 1944 and 1946 he lived in Kurów and taught in a school in the area of Lublin, then returned to Warsaw. In the late