Polish literature

Samizdat (, , ), also Samvydav () was a form of dissident activity across the Eastern Bloc in which individuals reproduced censored and underground makeshift publications, often by hand, and passed the documents from reader to reader. The practice of manual reproduction was widespread, because printed texts could be traced back to the source. This was a grassroots practice used to evade official Soviet censorship.

literature associated with Poland or Polish people, often written in Polish or languages/dialects of Poland

Ossoliński National Institute (, ZNiO), or the Ossolineum is a Polish cultural foundation, publishing house, archival institute and a research centre of national significance founded in 1817 in Lwów (now Lviv). Located in the city of Wrocław since 1947, it is the second largest institution of its kind in Poland after the ancient Jagiellonian Library in Kraków. Its publishing arm is the oldest continuous imprint in Polish since the early 19th century. It bears the name of its founder, Polish nobleman, Count Józef Maksymilian Ossoliński (1748-1826).

Polish cultural centre in France

socio-cultural movement in Poland after the 1863 January Uprising

manuscript

literary museum in Warsaw, Poland

literary society

Polish literary form

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multi-generational chronicle, kept by many Polish and Lithuanian noble families from the 16th through 18th centuries

Gawęda () is a genre of Polish oral folklore, as well as an epic literary genre of works stylized as an oral tale, characterized by freedom of composition, rich in digressions, and written in language close to colloquial language. The word literally means "oral tale".