Stanisław Pestka
{{Infobox person
| name = Stanisław Pestka
| native_name = Stanisłôw Pestka
| native_name_lang = csb
| pronunciation =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1929|04|08}}
| birth_place = Rólbiék, Poland
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2015|04|02|1929|04|08}}
| death_place = Gduńsk, Poland
| other_names = {{plainlist|
- Jan Zbrzyca
- Krëban z Milachòwa
}}
| occupation =
| boards = Kaszëbskò-Pòmòrsczé Zrzeszenié
| organization = Kashubian-Pomeranian Association
| years_active =
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| notable_works =
| alma_mater = Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
}}
Stanisław Pestka (8 April 1929 – 2 April 2015) was a Kashubian poet. He was born in Rolbik.{{Cite web|url=http://www.dziennikbaltycki.pl/artykul/3809537,wielka-strata-dla-pomorza-nie-zyja-prof-jerzy-treder-i-stanislaw-pestka,id,t.html?cookie=1|title=Wielka strata dla Pomorza. Nie żyją prof. Jerzy Treder i Stanisław Pestka|date=2015-04-02|access-date=2015-04-02|language=pl}} Pestka was also a translator of Russian texts into Kashubian language. He was the chairman of Kashubian-Pomeranian Association from 1976 to 1980 and again from 1992 to 1994. He was a Kashubian activist.{{cite web |url=http://www.rastko.net/rastko-ka/content/view/174/25/ |access-date=April 7, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160517054853/http://www.rastko.net/rastko-ka/content/view/174/25/ |archive-date=17 May 2016 |first=Paweł |last=Szczypta |title=Rastko Kaszuby project - Stanisław Pestka (in english) |df= }} He died in 2015.{{Cite web|url=https://www.radiogdansk.pl/index.php/wydarzenia/item/23199-nie-zyja-dwaj-znani-kaszubi-prof-jerzy-treder-i-red-stanislaw-pestka.html|title=Nie żyją dwaj znani Kaszubi prof. Jerzy Treder i red. Stanisław Pestka|date=2015-04-02|access-date=2015-04-02|language=pl}}
Publications
In 1950 he graduated from the Jozef Wybicki High School in Kościerzyna, and in 1953 he studied Polish Studies at the University of Poznan. After graduation, he worked as a teacher. In 1958 he settled in Gdańsk, cooperated with the magazine Kaszëbë until its liquidation in 1961, in 1961-1965 headed the cultural department of the Ilustrowany Kurier Polski (Illustrated Polish Courier), in 1965-1967 worked at the Polish Radio Broadcasting Station in Szczecin, in 1967-1968 at the magazine Fakty i Myśli (Facts and Thoughts). From 1968 he lived in Gdańsk again, and was a member of the editorial board of the magazine Litery (1968-1974), the weekly Czas (1975-1981). At the same time he was editor-in-chief of the Pomerania monthly (1969-1972). In the 1980s he worked at the Provincial Cultural Center in Gdańsk, and was again editor-in-chief of Pomerania from 1990-1994.
He published poetry under the pen name Jan Zbrzyca, and his articles and feuilletons were signed Krëban z Milachòwa. (The word krëban or kùrban literally denoting a jar for storing animal fat,{{cite web |url=http://szkola.interklasa.pl/f019/strona/pol/kasz_jl.html |title=Słownik kaszubsko-polski |access-date=April 9, 2015}} while Krëbans also refers to an ethnic subgroup of Kashubians.{{cite book |url=http://instytutkaszubski.republika.pl/pdfy/angielski.pdf |title=The Kashubs Today |isbn=978-83-89079-78-7 |access-date=April 9, 2015 |date=2007}}{{cite book |url=http://arch.powiat.slupsk.pl/publikacje/files/konf_kaszubi.pdf |title=VII KONFERENCJAKASZUBSKO - POMORSKA |isbn=83-918641-0-3 |access-date=April 9, 2015 |date=2003}})
- Południca, Gdańsk 1976
- Wizrë ë duchë, Gdańsk 1986; {{ISBN|83-85011-09-9}}
- Wieczòrny widnik, 2002
- W krainie chmurników, 2011, collection of prose
References
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Bibliography
- J. Drzeżdżon, "Współczesna literatura kaszubska 1945-1980", Warszawa 1986
- [http://pbl.ibl.poznan.pl/dostep/index.php?s=d_biezacy&f=zapisy&p_autorid=11812 Polish bibliography]
- "Z zaborskiego matecznika. O Stanisławie Pestce - Janie Zbrzycy", pod red. J. Borzyszkowskiego, Gdańsk 2008.
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Category:Kashubian translators
Category:Polish language activists
Category:20th-century Polish poets
Category:20th-century translators
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