Polish literature is the literary tradition of Poland. A majority of Polish literature was written in the Polish language, though other languages utilized inside Poland above a centuries (including Latin, Yiddish, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Belarusian and German) have likewise contributed to Polish literary traditions.

History
Middle Ages

A earliest monuments of Polish literature date back to the Middle Ages. Elysian by Christian traditions recently imported from either elsewhere inside Europe, local anon. scrivener prepared copies of books — mostly religious — that were popular around american Europe. All about a 11th century local scriptoria were founded, and a 1st books were created in Polish soil. Notable examples of early Polish books include a Latin Missal of Bishop Ciołek and Olbracht's Gradual.

In the early 1470s the first printing houses were opened in Kraków and Wrocław. Twenty years late, a number one Cyrillic printing home was founded inside Kraków by Orthodox Church primate.

Notable works of literature from either this cycle include: A Account of the Bavarian Geographer (11th century) A Holy Cross Annals (early 12th century) A Story of Gallus Anonymus A Account of Wincenty KadÅ‚ubek (13th century) A Account of Janko of Czarnków (14th century) A CzerwiÅ„sk Breviary A Holy Cross Sermons: the oldest extant manuscripts of ticket prose in the Polish language. Queen Zofia's Bible (earliest Polish-language Bible) A PuÅ‚awy Psalter Saint Florian's Breviary (late 14th century, partially within Polish) Bogurodzica: a Polish song praising a Virgin Mary, written down in the 14th century, though probably popular at least a century prior to; one of a earliest texts printed within Polish. A Gradual of King John I Olbracht of Poland Missal of Erazm CioÅ‚ek (ca. 1515) Statua synodalia Wratislaviensia (1475): a printed collection of Polish & Latin prayers Florian Ungler's Hortulus Animae (1513): the number 1 book printed totally around Polish. Jan DÅ‚ugosz's Chronicle (15th century). David's Psalter. Jan Å?aski's Communae Poloniae Regni privilegium. Jan DÅ‚ugosz's Catalogus archiepiscoporum Gnesnensium.

Many short texts of the time period, within Polish, were influenced heavy by contemporaneous american literature. These include Bogurodzica (Mother of God), a short song praising a Virgin Mary, which served as a Polish anthem, and Rozmowa mistrza Polikarpa ze śmiercią (Master Polikarp's Conversation by using Demise).

Renaissance

By owning a advent of the Renaissance, the Polish language was eventually accepted in an equal footing sustaining Latin. Polish culture & art flourished under Jagiellonian rule, & numbers of foreign poets and writers settled within Poland, bringing by owning the children recently literary trends. Such writers involved Kallimach (Filip Buonaccorsi) and Konrad Celtis. Numbers of more Polish writers exposed overseas or even at a Kraków Academy, which became a melting pot for fresh ideas & currents. Around 1488 the Nadwiślańskie Bractwo Literackie (Vistula Literary Guild), the world's first writers' club, was created at Kraków.

One of a endure Polish writers to utilise Latin when his main vehicle of expression was Klemens Janicki (Ianicius), who became one of a virtually all notable Latin poets of his instance & was laureled by the Pope. More writers like Mikołaj Rej and Jan Kochanowski laid the foundations for the Polish literary language & modern Polish grammar.

Notable Polish writers & poets active in the 16th century included:

MikoÅ‚aj Rej (1505-1569) Jan Kochanowski (1530-1584) Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski (1503-1572) Szymon Szymonowic (1558-1629) Å?ukasz Górnicki (1524-1603) Piotr Skarga (1536-1612) Andrzej Krzycki (1482-1537) MikoÅ‚aj Hussowski Hussowczyk (died ca. 1533) Jan Dantyszek Dantiscus (1485-1548) Klemens Janicki Ianicius (1516-1542)

List of names
Writers and novelists

Independent article: List of Polish language authors

Writers within chronological choose of birth:

Ignacy Krasicki (1735–1801) Jan Potocki (1761–1815) Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812–1887) Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841–1910) Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846–1916), Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905 BolesÅ‚aw Prus (1847–1912) Stefan Å»eromski (1864–1925) WÅ‚adysÅ‚aw Reymont (1867–1925), Nobel Prize in Literature in 1924 Zofia NaÅ‚kowska (1885–1954) Maria DÄ…browska (1889–1965) Bruno Schulz (1892–1942) Józef Mackiewicz (1902–1985) Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969) Eugeniusz Å»ytomirski (1911–1975) StanisÅ‚aw Lem (* 1921) Tadeusz Konwicki (* 1926) Janusz A. Zajdel (1938–1985) Andrzej Sapkowski (* 1948) Rafal A. Ziemkiewicz (* 1964) Dorota MasÅ‚owska (* 1983)

Poets

Independent article: List of Polish language poets

Biernat of Lublin (1465? – fallowing 1529). MikoÅ‚aj Rej of NagÅ‚owice (1505–1569) Jan Kochanowski (1530–1584) Klemens Janicki (Janicius) (1516–1543) Ignacy Krasicki (1735–1801) Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855) Juliusz SÅ‚owacki (1809–1849) Zygmunt KrasiÅ„ski (1812–1859) Cyprian Kamil Norwid (1821–1883) BolesÅ‚aw LeÅ›mian (approx. 1877–1937) Jan Brzechwa (1900–1966) Tadeusz Różewicz (b. 1921) Miron BiaÅ‚oszewski (1922–1983) Julian Tuwim (1894–1953) WÅ‚adysÅ‚aw Broniewski (1897–1962) Konstanty Ildefons GaÅ‚czyÅ„ski (1905–1953) CzesÅ‚aw MiÅ‚osz (June 30, 1911 – August 14, 2004), Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980 Eugeniusz Å»ytomirski (1911–1975) WisÅ‚awa Szymborska (b. 1923), Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996 Andrzej Bursa (1932–1957) Halina PoÅ›wiatowska (1935–1967) Ewa Lipska (b. 1945) Grazyna Miller (b. 1957) RafaÅ‚ Wojaczek (1945–1971) Cezary GeroÅ„ (1960–1998) Marcin Åšwietlicki (b. 1961)

Essayists
Bolesław Prus (1847-1912). Paweł Huelle (b. 1957) Ryszard Kapuściński (b. 1932) Jerzy Pilch (b. 1952) Ludwik Stomma