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The Rojek Sisters Go to Camp

The Rojek Sisters
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The Rojek Sisters:
Mira Michałowska’s (1914-2007) pen name. Michałowska was a Polish writer, journalist, satirist and translator of American literature. The Rojek Sisters column was published in “Przekrój” from 1962 until 1967.

The Rojek Sisters column was published in “Przekrój” from 1962 until 1967. We present you with one of the articles from this series from 1963.

OK, it’s not really us, it’s my sister’s child, but that’s not important. In any case, the kid’s gone to summer camp and a terrible silence has descended on the home, interrupted only by postcards from said child.

We bought postcards, already franked, addressed them so that the kid wouldn’t have to work too hard, and packed them into his copy of Robinson Crusoe.

In the evening, his ol

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The Rojek Sisters:
Mira Michałowska’s (1914-2007) pen name. Michałowska was a Polish writer, journalist, satirist and translator of American literature. The Rojek Sisters column was published in “Przekrój” from 1962 until 1967.
Publish date: 25.07.2018

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Illustrated by Daniel Mróz, issue no. 234 from 1949
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Jerzy Szaniawski:
Born in 1886, Jerzy Szaniawski was an acclaimed playwright, writer, and essayist. Szaniawski debuted in “Przekrój” in 1949 with his series of short stories, “Stories About Professor Tutka”. For many years he insisted that his stories were published exclusively in “Przekrój”.

Professor Tutka was a fictional character created by the Polish writer, playwright and columnist Jerzy Szaniawski (1886–1970). Stories about Professor Tutka were highly popular among “Przekrój” readers. We present you with the first tale from this series published in 1949.

Some of the gentlemen in the conversation asserted that cannibalism still existed. The Judge was uncertain as to whether it might or not. The Doctor dismissed such stories succinctly, as “fairy-tales”. Professor Tutka said this:

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