Elżbieta Zechenter-Spławińska (born 1935) is a Polish poet, translator, prose writer, and teacher.
She graduated in Polish philology from the Jagiellonian University and obtained a PhD in humanities from the Pedagogical Academy in Kraków.
[1][2][3] She made her debut with a New Year's Eve epigram in the magazine, Sztandar Młodych, in 1955.
She published many volumes of poems and several books of prose, and her works have also been included in anthologies in Poland and in translation in Hungary, the UK, Germany, Russia, the Czech Republic and Turkey.
[1][2][3][4] In January 1997, she received the Krakow "Book of the Month" award for her volume of poems Czapka niewidka.