Anna Łajming
Polish writer
Died when: 88 years 354 days (1067 months)Star Sign: Leo
Anna Lajming (née Anna Zmuda Trzebiatowska; 24 July 1904 in the Kashubian village of Przymuszewo, Chojnice County – 13 July 2003 in Slupsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland), one of thirteen children born to Jan and Marianna Zmuda Trzebiatowski.
Although Anna Lajming was a prolific writer of Kashubian and Polish short stories, novels, memoirs, and plays, she did not publish her first work until 1958.
As a young woman, she did clerical work in various towns including Tczew, where she met and married in 1929 a Tsarist Russian refugee named Nikolai Lajming.
They were the parents of a daughter, Wera, and a son, Wlodzimierz.In 1953 she and her family moved to Slupsk, where her husband's White Russian background would attract less unfavorable notice.
In 2011, Blanche Krbechek and Stanislaw Frymark published The Four Leafed Clover, an English translation of her 1985 short story collection Czterolistna Koniczyna.
In 1974, Anna Lajming was awarded the "Stolem" medal by the Kashubian-Pomeranian Association for her contributions to Kashubian culture.On 29 March 2000 she was named an honorary citizen of the city of Slupsk.
In 2005, the city of Slupsk named Anna Lajming Street (ulica ul.Anny Lajming) in her honor.
