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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

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.

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