| LC control no. | n 84020109 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Toporska, Barbara |
| Variant(s) | Mackiewicz, Barbara Toporska- Mackiewiczowa, Barbara Toporska-Mackiewicz, Barbara |
| Associated country | Poland Italy England Germany |
| Birth date | 1913-08-23 |
| Death date | 1985-06-20 |
| Place of death | Oberaudorf (Germany) |
| Field of activity | Fiction Poetry Journalism |
| Affiliation | Voice of America (Organization) |
| Profession or occupation | Novelists Poets Journalists |
| Found in | Mackiewicz, J. Droga pani, 1984: title page (Barbara Toporska) LC data base, 5-14-84 (hdg.: Toporska Barbara) Listy do redaktorów "Wiadomości", 2010: title page (Barbara Toporska) page 635, etc. (born August 23, 1913; died June 20, 1985) Fakty, przyroda i ludzie, 2019: title page (... Barbary Toporskiej) title page verso (Barbara Toporska) Wikipedia (in Polish), viewed April 1, 2019 (Barbara Toporska; Barbara Toporska-Mackiewicz; Barbary Toporskiej; Polish writer and publicist; studied Polish philology and philosophy at the University of Poznań; in 1934 she started working at the Vilnius daily 'Słowo' and in 1937 became the editor of its literary supplement until it ceased publication on September 18, 1939; while working there, she met Józef Mackiewicz; she worked for Gazety Codziennej, 1939-40; they moved from Vilnius to Warsaw, and then Kraków, where they circulated a booklet Optymizm nie zastąpi nam Polski; in January 1945 they reached Vienna, then moved to Milan and, in May, Rome, where she worked at the editorial office of Orła Białego; she lived in London, 1947-54, where she worked freelance for Voice of America; she moved to Munich when Voice of America in Europe started; she wrote articles and poems for numerous Polish emigre publications; she began writing novels in the 1960s; she died on June 20, 1985 at the clinic in Oberaudorf, Germany) Wielka niewiadoma, 2022: title page (Barbara Toporska) page 179 (Barbara Mackiewiczowa) |
| Associated language | pol |
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