1. Maria Gabriela Stefania Korwin-Piotrowska, known as Gabriela Zapolska, was a Polish novelist, playwright, naturalist writer, feuilletonist, theatre critic and stage actress.
20 Facts About Gabriela Zapolska
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Gabriela Zapolska's stage plays were translated into foreign languages, and performed at Polish and European theatres, as well as adapted for radio and film.
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Gabriela Zapolska herself acted on stage in over 200 plays in Warsaw, Krakow, Poznan, Lwow, Saint Petersburg and Paris.
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Gabriela Zapolska was born on 30 March 1857 in Pidhatsi, near Lutsk, in Volhynia, to a wealthy family of Polish landed gentry.
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In 1881 Gabriela Zapolska became pregnant by an out-of-wedlock relationship and left her family.
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Gabriela Zapolska acted in Poznan, and in travelling troupes throughout the Congress Poland.
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In 1889 Gabriela Zapolska moved to Paris in hopes of an artistic career.
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Gabriela Zapolska played in a stage adaptation of Interieur by Maurice Maeterlinck in Theatre de l'Oeuvre.
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In Paris, Gabriela Zapolska established contacts within the artistic milieu as well as with Polish socialist emigrants, which influenced her social views.
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Gabriela Zapolska died on 17 December 1921 in Lwow and buried at the Lychakivskiy Cemetery there.
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Gabriela Zapolska was mainly influenced by Emile Zola, a French naturalist writer.
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Gabriela Zapolska portrayed the lives of the poorest and most vulnerable people including proletarians, Jews, servants, prostitutes, etc.
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Gabriela Zapolska tends to skip psychological analysis as it was specific for the Young Poland writers.
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Gabriela Zapolska brought up controversial subjects, such as prostitution and venereal disease.
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Gabriela Zapolska created acrimonious and embittered literary characters, such as those in her best-known works, Moralnosc pani Dulskiej, Zabusia, Ich czworo.
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Gabriela Zapolska made her own short story debut in 1881 by Jeden dzien z zycia rozy.
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Gabriela Zapolska collected her early short stories in the volume of Z dziejow bolesci.
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Gabriela Zapolska was criticized by conservatives for the more naturalist aspects of her works, such as perceived immorality, squalor, taboo subjects, etc.
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Gabriela Zapolska is best known for her dramas, socio-satirical comedies and tragicomedy works.
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Gabriela Zapolska's dramas were translated into other languages, played at the Polish and European stages, and adapted into radio and film.