Background
She was born in Lublin and grew up there.
essayist translator writer poet
She was born in Lublin and grew up there.
She studied Polish and French literature at Warsaw University and continued her studies at the Catholic University of Lublin.
Her first poems appeared in the journal Odrdozenie in 1944. Hartwig lived in Paris from 1947 to 1950. In 1954, she published Z niedalekich podróży (From nearby places), a collection of articles
She published her first collection of poetry Pożegnania (Farewells) in 1956.
She lived in the United States from 1970 to 1974, later returning to Warsaw. During her time in America, Hartwig took part in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa and also taught at several universities.
She published translations of French poetry by Guillaume Apollinaire, Blaise Cendrars, Max Jacob, Henri Michaux and Pierre Reverdy and wrote books on Apollinaire and Gérard de Nerval. She also published translations of American poets such as Robert Bly and Marianne Moore.
Hartwig"s poetry has been translated into English, French, Italian, Russian, Lithuanian, Serbian, Greek and German.
In 1954, Hartwig married the poet Artur Międzyrzecki. He died in 1996.