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Andrzej Bursa
Andrzej Bursa (born March 21 1932 in Krakow, died November 15 1957) was a Polish poet and writer. He studied journalism, then Bulgarian at Jagellon University in Krakow, then worked as a journalist for the Krakow newspaper Dziennik Polski .
He published his first poem in 1954. During his lifetime,, he published 37 poems and a short story in different magazines. He died of a heart attack in 1957. Shortly thereafter, his first poetry collection was published, an important event in Polish poetry. There is a poetry prize named after Bursa which many present-day Polish poets (e.g. Ewa Lipska and Stanisław Barańczak ) have won.
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