Polish Famous People

There are a lot of famous Polish people, you can find a long list of them on the Wikipedia website.
The students from Polish school have chosen names of 15 famous Polish people and collected some information about them.
Mateusz U. and Marcel K. have printed a short presentation about a Polish well-known writer , Józef Konrad Korzeniowski.

Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski

Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-born English novelist.Conrad is regarded as one of the great novelists in English, although he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and then always with a marked Polish accent). He wrote stories and novels, predominantly with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit by the demands of duty and honour.

Conrad, an emotional man subject to fits of depression, self-doubt, and pessimism, disciplined his romantic temperament with an unsparing moral judgment. In 1894, aged 36, Conrad reluctantly gave up the sea, partly because of poor health and partly because he had become so fascinated with writing that he decided on a literary career. His first novel, Almayer's Folly, set on the east coast of Borneo, was published in 1895. Its appearance marked his first use of the pen name "Joseph Conrad"; "Konrad" was, of course, the third of his Polish given names, but his use of it – in the anglicised version, "Conrad" – may also have been an homage to the Polish Romantic poet Adam Mickiewicz's patriotic narrative poem, Konrad Wallenrod. In April 1924 Conrad, who possessed a hereditary Polish status of nobility and coat-of-arms (Nałęcz), declined a (non-hereditary) British knighthood offered by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.Shortly after, on 3 August 1924, Conrad died of a heart attack. He was interred at Canterbury Cemetery, Canterbury, England, under his original Polish surname, Korzeniowski.
Novels
· Almayer's Folly (1895)
· An Outcast of the Islands (1896)
· The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' (1897)
· Heart of Darkness (1899)
· Lord Jim (1900)
· The Inheritors (with Ford Madox Ford) (1901)
· Typhoon (1902, begun 1899)
· The End of the Tether (written in 1902; collected in Youth, a Narrative and Two Other Stories, 1902)
· Romance (with Ford Madox Ford, 1903)
· Nostromo (1904)
· The Secret Agent (1907)