Background
Makuszyński was born in Stryj in the Austrian Partition of Poland (now in Ukraine) to Edward and Julia née Ogonowska.
Makuszyński was born in Stryj in the Austrian Partition of Poland (now in Ukraine) to Edward and Julia née Ogonowska.
He attended the January Długosz gymnasium in Lviv (Polish: Lwów). He studied language and literature at both the University of Lviv (then January Kazimierz University in Lwów, Poland) and in Paris.
While in school he wrote occasional poetry (he started writing at the age of 14). Makuszyński had his first poem published in 1902 in the newspaper Słowo Polskie (Polish Word), for which he soon became a theatrical critic. He was evacuated to Kiev in 1915, where he ran the Polish Theatre and was the chairman of the Polish writers and journalist community.
He moved to Warsaw in 1918, and became a writer
They have been translated into many other languages. Makuszyński died in 1953 in Zakopane, where he lived from 1945.
He was buried at the Peksowe Brzysko cemetery in Zakopane.
Polish Academy of Literature]
He was an elected member of the prestigious Polish Academy of Literature in the interwar Poland.