Kazimierz Andrzej Jaworski


Kazimierz Andrzej Jaworski was a Polish philologist, teacher, poet, translator and publisher. He used pseudonym KAJ. He was born in Siedliszcze. His parents were Edward Jaworski and Maria Jaworska née Smoleńska. He lived in Chełm. During World War I he was deported to Kharkiv, where he started studying medicine in the years 1917-1918. After he had come back to Poland, he studied Polish philology at Catholic University of Lublin. During World War II, he taught underground classes, was eventually arrested and imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. After the war he translated many works from Russian language, and became the editor of the reestabilished Kamena magazine. He also translated from Czech and Slovak. Among his translations is the poem Edison by Vítězslav Nezval. In the years 1971-1974 Wydawnictwo Lubelskie
published Jaworski's Pisma in twelve volumes.