How to Pronounce Andrzej Bursa
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Mar 21, 1932 Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland Died on 15 Nov 1957 (aged 25)
Polish poet, writer, playwright and journalist
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About Andrzej Bursa
- Andrzej Bursa (21 March 1932 – 15 November 1957) was a Polish poet and writer. Born in Kraków, he studied journalism, then Bulgarian at Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
- In 1954–1957 Bursa worked as a journalist and reporter for the Kraków newspaper Dziennik Polski.
- Many of his contemporaries attributed his early death at the age of 25 to suicide, while the true cause of it was a congenital heart disease.
- He was buried at the Rakowicki Cemetery. Bursa published his first poem in 1954.
- A prolific writer, he published 37 poems and a short story in different magazines during his lifetime.
- He died of a heart attack in 1957.
- Shortly thereafter, his first poetry collection was published, an important event in Polish poetry.
- Presently, there is a poetry prize named after Bursa which many living Polish poets have won (e.g.
- Ewa Lipska and Stanislaw Baranczak).
