- Guillaume Apollinaire (Apolinary Kostrowicki)
- Franciszka Arnsztajnowa, playwright
- Agnieszka Baranowska, playwright
- Wacław Berent, novelist
- Karol Olgierd Borchardt, maritime author
- Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, writer; translator of over 100 French literary classics
- Edmund Chojecki
- Joseph Conrad (Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski), English-language novelist
- Lucyna Ćwierczakiewiczowa, first Polish cookbook
- Maria Dąbrowska, novelist
- Johannes Dantiscus (Jan Dantyszek), Latin poet and Prince-Bishop of Warmia
- Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz, novelist, The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma
- Jacek Dukaj, science-fiction writer
- Adolf Dygasiński, novelist
- Leszek Engelking, short story writer
- Aleksander Fredro, poet, comedy writer
- Janusz Głowacki, playwright, non-fiction author
- Witold Gombrowicz, novelist, playwright
- Rene Goscinny, cartoonist
- Stefan Grabiński, horror writer
- Marek Hłasko, novelist, short story writer
- Paweł Huelle, essayist
- Wincenty Kadłubek political scientist, writer
- Ryszard Kapuściński, writer and journalist
- Tadeusz Konwicki
- Jerzy Kosiński
- Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, novelist and World War II resistance fighter
- Ignacy Krasicki, author of the first Polish novel The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom and Fables and Parables
- Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, writer
- Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
- Stanisław Lem, science-fiction writer, essayist, philosopher
- Stanisław Lubieniecki writer, astronomer
- Waldemar Łysiak, writer
- Józef Mackiewicz, writer, journalist
- Kornel Makuszyński, children's writer
- Stanisław Michalkiewicz writer
- Sławomir Mrożek, dramatist and writer
- Eliza Orzeszkowa, Positivist writer
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- Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, writer
- Teodor Parnicki, writer
- Jan Chryzostom Pasek (memoirist)
- Sergiusz Piasecki, writer
- Krzysztof Piesiewicz, screenwriter and politician
- Jan Potocki, The Saragossa Manuscript
- Bolesław Prus, The Doll and Pharaoh.
- Ksawery Pruszyński, writer and journalist
- Mikołaj Rej, a founder of Polish literary language and literature
- Sydor Rey, writer, poet, novelist
- Władysław Reymont, 1924 Nobel laureate
- Maria Rodziewiczówna, novelist
- Henryk Rzewuski, novelist
- Pinchas Sadeh, Israeli novelist and poet
- Andrzej Sapkowski, fantasy writer
- Bruno Schulz, novelist and painter
- Joanna Siedlecka, non-fiction writer
- Lucjan Siemieński
- Henryk Sienkiewicz, 1905 Nobel laureate
- Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1966 Nobel laureate
- Piotr Skarga, poet, writer, humanist
- Robert Stiller, polyglot, writer, poet, translator, editor
- Jędrzej Śniadecki, terminologist, writer
- Olga Tokarczuk, Polish-Ukrainian writer
- Leopold Tyrmand, writer
- Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy)
- Lucjan Wolanowski, writer, journalist, and traveller
- Stanisław Wyspiański, painter and writer
- Rafał A. Ziemkiewicz, writer
- Franciszek Zabłocki, comic dramatist and satirist
- Janusz A. Zajdel, science-fiction writer
- Gabriela Zapolska, novelist
- Roger Zelazny (Żelazny), American writer of fantasy and science fiction, son of a Pole
- Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm, writer
- Stefan Żeromski, novelist
- Jerzy Żuławski, novelist
- Eugeniusz Żytomirski, novelist
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