Janina Brzostowska

Janina Brzostowska (9 July 1897 – 18 March 1986) was a Polish poet, novelist and translator.

Janina Brzostowska was born on 9 July 1897 in Wadowice, the daughter of a high school principal.

[1] She studied Polish and French at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, where her family moved.

In 1924 she joined the "Czartak" group of poets, and published her first volume of poetry, On Land and My Love, in 1925.

She kept writing poetry after the war, publishing a complete translation of the Songs of Sappho in 1961.