Stanisław Pestka (8 April 1929 – 2 April 2015) was a Kashubian poet. He was born in Rolbik.[1] Pestke 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.[2] He died in 2015.[3]
Publications
In 1950 he graduated from the Jozef Wybicki High School in Koscierzyna, and in 1953 he studied Polish Studies at the University of Poznan. After graduation, he worked as a teacher. In 1958 he settled in Gdansk, cooperated with the magazine Kaszëbë until its liquidation in 1961, in 1961-1965 headed the cultural department of the Illustrated Polish Courier, in 1965-1967 worked at the Polish Radio Broadcasting Station in Szczecin, in 1967-1968 at the magazine Facts and Thoughts. Since 1968 he lived in Gdansk 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 Pomerania monthly (1969-1972). In the 1980s he worked at the Provincial Cultural Center in Gdansk, and was again editor-in-chief of Pomerania from 1990-1994.
He published poetry under the pen name Jan Zbrzyca,[3] and his articles and feuilletons were signed Krëban z Milachòwa.[2] (The word krëban or kùrban literally to a jar for storing animal fat,[4] but "Krëbans" also refer to an Ethnic subgroup of Kashubians.[5][6])
- Południca, Gdańsk 1976
- Wizrë ë duchë, Gdańsk 1986; ISBN 83-85011-09-9
- Wieczòrny widnik, 2002
- W krainie chmurników, 2011, collection of prose
References
Bibliography
- J. Drzeżdżon, "Współczesna literatura kaszubska 1945-1980", Warszawa 1986
- Polish bibliography
- "Z zaborskiego matecznika. O Stanisławie Pestce - Janie Zbrzycy", pod red. J. Borzyszkowskiego, Gdańsk 2008.