Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz

Japanese: イバシュキエビチ（英語表記）Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz

1894‐1980
Polish poet and novelist. Born in Ukraine, he formed the young poets' group Scamander in Warsaw after World War I. He wrote poetry with strong aesthetic colors and an oriental feel. In prose, he produced many excellent short stories such as "The Birch Grove" (1933) and "The Girls of Bilko" (1934), and a masterpiece that tackles the themes of life and death, love and madness is "The Nun Joanna" (1943). After World War II, he became a leader in the literary world, working in the writers' union and as a magazine editor. [Nishi Shigehiko]

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1894‐1980
ポーランドの詩人，小説家。ウクライナに生まれ，第1次世界大戦後ワルシャワで若手の詩人グループ〈スカマンデル〉を結成。東方的な香りに富んだ美的色彩の強い詩を書く。散文では《白樺林》(1933)，《ビルコの娘たち》(1934)などの短編に佳作が多く，生と死，愛と狂気のテーマにとりくんだ名作に《尼僧ヨアンナ》(1943)がある。第2次大戦後は文壇の長として作家組合や雑誌編集等で活躍。【西成彦】

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