Maria Kownacka

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Maria Kownacka (11 September 1894 – 27 February 1982) was a Polish writer, translator and editor, specializing in children's literature. She was a long-time writer of Płomyk. Her best-known work is the series of books about "Plastuś", that began with Plastusiowy pamiętnik (1936).

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Remembrance Her house in Warsaw became a small museum (Memorial Room of Maria Kownacka) open to the public in 1990. Many kindergartens in Poland are named after characters from her books. In 2016 a biography of her, Kownacka. Ta od Plastusia, was published.

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Biography Kownacka was born on 11 September 1894 in Słup, partitioned Poland. She became a village schoolteacher at the age of 18, teaching in Dębowa Góra in 1914. From 1915 to 1918 she worked as a teacher in Minsk, where she also studied literature. As she was teaching in Polish, her activities were considered part of the illegal underground activism. It is around that time she also begun her career as a writer. Later she founded her own school in Krzywda on land owned by a relative. As she did not have sufficient funds to buy books, she wrote down her own stories for the children. In 1919 she debuted as a writer, with her first work published in magazines for children, Płomyk and Płomyczek. Due to a disease of the throat, she was forced to abandon her budding career as a teacher. She moved to Warsaw where she worked as a librarian in the Ministry of Agricultural Reforms and was an educational activist for children, active in the Workers Association of Children's Friends. In 1931 she moved to a house in Żolibórz, which would later become a museum dedicated to her. Also that year she published the first part…Citește mai mult