Kazimierz Andrzej Jaworski

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1897|11|28}}

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| death_date = {{Death date and age|1973|09|06|1897|11|28}}

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| nationality = Polish

| other_names = KAJ

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Kazimierz Andrzej Jaworski (28 November 1897 – 6 September 1973) was a Polish philologist, teacher, poet, translator and publisher. He used the pseudonym KAJ. He was born in Siedliszcze.[http://zsgih.chelm.pl/stara_www/parton.htm Nasz patron Kazimierz Andrzej Jaworski] His parents were Edward Jaworski and Maria Jaworska née Smoleńska. He lived in Chełm. During World War I he was deported to Kharkiv, where he started studying medicine in the years 1917–1918. After he had come back to Poland, he studied Polish philology at Catholic University of Lublin[http://akcentpismo.pl/?page_id=831 Jarosław Cymerman, Przypomnieć KAJ-a] (today John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin and at University of Warsaw.[http://teatrnn.pl/leksykon/node/1296/kazimierz_andrzej_jaworski Kazimierz Andrzej Jaworski at TeatrNN.pl ] In interwar Poland, he was the founder and editor of an important literary magazine, Kamena.[http://demarczyk.pl/wp/kazimierz-andrzej-jaworski/ Kazimierz Andrzej Jaworski] In 1924 he published his first book named {{lang|pl|Czerwonej i białej kochance}}[http://mzch.pl/userfiles/KAI.pdf See full text of the main poem online at Muzeum Ziemi Chełmskiej] (To a red and white mistress). During World War II, he taught underground classes, was eventually arrested and imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. After the war he translated many works from Russian language, and became the editor of the reestablished Kamena magazine.[http://kamena-czasopismo-internetowe.com/?page_id=117 Kamena online] He also translated from Czech and Slovak. Among his translations is the poem Edison by Vítězslav Nezval. In the years 1971-1974 Wydawnictwo Lubelskie published Jaworski's Pisma (Collected Works) in twelve volumes.[http://www.muzeumlubelskie.pl/Archiwum_aktualnosci_/Wieczor_pamieci_Kazimierza_Andrzeja_Jaworskiego-2-318-43.html Muzeum Lubelskie]