Anna Łajming

Anna Łajming (née Anna Żmuda Trzebiatowska; 24 July 1904 in the Kashubian village of Przymuszewo, Chojnice County – 13 July 2003 in Słupsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland), one of thirteen children born to Jan and Marianna Żmuda Trzebiatowski.

Anna Lajming Street in Słupsk, Poland

Anna Łajming.

Although Anna Łajming 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 Łajming. They were the parents of a daughter, Wera, and a son, Włodzimierz.[1] In 1953 she and her family moved to Słupsk, where her husband's White Russian background would attract less unfavorable notice.[2] In 2011, Blanche Krbechek and Stanisław Frymark published The Four Leafed Clover, an English translation of her 1985 short story collection Czterolistna Koniczyna.[3]

In 1974, Anna Łajming was awarded the "Stolem" medal by the Kashubian-Pomeranian Association for her contributions to Kashubian culture.[4] On 29 March 2000 she was named an honorary citizen of the city of Słupsk. In 2005, the city of Słupsk named Anna Łajming Street (ulica ul. Anny Łajming) in her honor.