Hanna Ożogowska was a Polish

Poland

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 novelist, a poet

Poet

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 and a Russian literature

Russian literature

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 translator. She graduated from Special Pedagogy Institute and Pedagogy Faculty of Free Polish University (Wolna Wszechnica Polska

Wolna Wszechnica Polska

Free Polish University , founded in 1918 in Warsaw, was a private high school with different departments: mathematics and natural sciences, humanities, political sciences and social pedagogy.From 1929, its degrees were equivalent to those of university....

). She debuted in 1932 in a weekly magazine Płomyk as a child literature author. She worked in secondary schooling

Secondary education

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 in Łódź till 1951. After World War II

World War II

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 she was the president of Pedagogical Secondary School for Kindergarten Educators in Łódź. She was the editor

Editing

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 of Płomyk.

Prize

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• 1956 - Golden Cross of Merit
• 1959 - Prime Minister's Award
• 1967 - Medal of the National Education Commission
• 1968 - Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta
  Polonia Restituta
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• 1974 - Order of the Smile (Order Uśmiechu)
• 1974 & 1981 - Eagle's Feather prize (Orle Pióro)
• 1979 - the title of "Distinguished Teacher of the PRL"
• 1984 - State Prize
• 1984 - Golden Cross of Merit of the Polish Scouting and Guiding Association
• 1984 - Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta
• 1985 - Award of the City of Warsaw

Bibliography

Bibliography

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• 1950 O ślimaku, co pierogów z serem szukał
• 1950 Uczniowie III klasy
• 1951 Na Karolewskiej
• 1952 Swoimi słowami
• 1953 Nową drogą przez nowy most
• 1955 W Marcelkowej klasie
• 1955 Bajka o kłosku pszenicy
• 1957 Malowany wózek
• 1957 Marcinkowe wierszyki
• 1957 Złota kula
• 1959 Tajemnica zielonej pieczęci
• 1960 O królewnie, która bała się, że jej korona z głowy spadnie
• 1960 Scyzoryk i koledzy
• 1960 Chłopak na opak czyli Z pamiętnika pechowego Jacka
• 1961 Dziewczyna i chłopak czyli Heca na czternaście fajerwerek (film adaptation: Dziewczyna i chłopak)
• 1963 Raz, gdy chciałem być szlachetny
• 1964 Herring's Ear (Ucho od śledzia) (entered on the IBBY Honour List
  International Board on Books for Young People
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   in 1966)
• 1968 Głowa na tranzystorach
• 1971 Koleżanki
• 1972 Za minutę pierwsza miłość
• 1980 Przygody Scyzoryka
• 1983 Entliczki pentliczki
• 1987 Lusterko dla każdej dziewczyny
• 1989 Druga klasa - fajna klasa!
• 1989 Piórko do pióreczka