Background
Beata was the daughter of the Young Poland poet Maryla Wolska and granddaughter of the sculptor Wanda Monne (the fiance of Artur Grottger. Her father was an engineer and industrialist in the oil business, Wacław Wolski.
Beata was the daughter of the Young Poland poet Maryla Wolska and granddaughter of the sculptor Wanda Monne (the fiance of Artur Grottger. Her father was an engineer and industrialist in the oil business, Wacław Wolski.
She spent her childhood and adolescent in the family villa in Lwow where she studied at home and then passed her high school examinations She studied in the National Institute of Theater Arts.
She was the wife of the landowner Józef Obertyński. In her youth she was associated with the Skamander movement. Her first poems were published in 1924 in "Słowo Polskie".
Between 1933 and 1937 she made appearances on the Lwów theater stage.
During the Soviet occupation of Lwów, in July 1940, she was arrested by the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs. She was imprisoned in the famous Brygidki prison and later moved to prisons in Kiev, Odessa, Kharkiv, Starobielsk and finally in the Vorkuta concentration camp. In 1942, due to the amnesty following the Sikorski-Mayski Agreement, she was released and joined the Anders Army.
She served with the army through all of its campaigns in Iran, Palestine, Egypt and Italy. After the war she settled in London and published in Polish language magazines.
"Dziennik Polski", "Dziennik Żołnierza", "Orzeł Biały", "Polska Walcząca", "Ochotniczka", "Wiadomoście", "Życie", and "Przegląd Polski".
She was the laureate of several literary awards, among others the award of the London based "Przegląd Powszechny" (1967), of the Lanckoroński Foundation (1972), the award of The Polish Ex-Combatants Association (1972) and the Jurzykowski Prize (1974). She died in 1980 in London.
