Irena Tuwim
She was the younger and only sister of one of Poland's most famous poets, Julian Tuwim. She wrote beautiful poetry herself. However, she is best known as the distinguished translator of the famous "Winnie the Pooh." Writer Stanisław Lem considered her version better than the English original... She was born on August 22nd 125 years ago in Łódź, of which she wrote years later: "I always see the oldest Łódź, the Łódź of my gloomy childhood, in the glow of fires." Her parents […]