Paweł Kubisz
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Paweł Kubisz in 1928
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| Born |
12 May 1907 Końska, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 19 August 1968 (aged 61) Český Těšín, Czechoslovakia |
| Occupation | Poet, writer, activist |
| Language | Polish, Cieszyn Silesian dialect |
| Ethnicity | Polish |
| Citizenship | Czechoslovak |
| Notable works | Przednówek |
Paweł Kubisz (12 May 1907 – 19 August 1968) was a Polish poet, writer, journalist, and activist, one of the most important poets from the Zaolzie region of Cieszyn Silesia.
Kubisz was born to a poor worker's family in the village of Końska. He attended pedagogic schools in Cieszyn-Bobrek and Ostrzeszów but didn't finish either, the latter due to the poems written about school's pedagogues. Young Kubisz was influenced mostly by the work of Stefan Żeromski and his works about poor masses. As a student he published his works in various press in Poland. Compiled together they were published as his debut poetry collection Kajdany i róże (Shackles and Roses) in 1927 in Frysztat.
On 17 April 1928 he was arrested by Czech authorities in his parents' house in Końska and on 6 November 1928 sentenced for 13 months in jail for alleged transport of illegal literature to Slovakia and conspiring against the Czechoslovak Republic. The arrest during the time of investigation of his case was included in those 13 months. He spent his sentence in jail in Olomouc. After his release he cooperated with Zaranie Śląskie magazine published in Cieszyn and became a secretary of the Polish People's Party in Czechoslovakia (Stronnictwo Ludowe). In 1937 he became a chairman of newly founded Śląski Związek Literacko-Artystyczny (Silesian Literary-Artistic Association) and founded Sztorcem magazine, of which only three issues appeared.Sztorcem was published in Czeski Cieszyn and adopted critical stances against the Czechoslovak government and the communist movement. Kubisz worked also as a correspondent and spent three years in East Prussia, Lithuania and Latvia.
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