Zofia Chądzyńska

Zofia Chądzyńska or Sophie Bohdan (24 February 1912 – 23 September 2003), was a Polish writer and translator of the Iberoamerican literature.

[1] She was one of the most famous Polish writers in the 1970s and she changed the literary landscape in Poland by introducing the Iberoamerican literature.

After the war she lived in France where her husband, Bohdan Chądzyński, was a Polish consul in Lyon until 1949, then was exiled via Morocco to Argentina.

[3] From 1949 until 1959 she lived in Buenos Aires, where she ran a white linen laundry and befriended Witold Gombrowicz, who later became one of the most famous Polish writers.

During her travel from Argentina to Poland she read a book Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar, which she got from her friends.