Wanda Wasilewska was born on January 22, 1905 in Krakau, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland]. She was a writer, known for Raduga (1944), Veter s vostoka (1940) and Children Must Laugh (1938). She was previously married to Roman Szymanski, Marian Bogatko and Oleksanr Koniychuk. She died on July 22, 1964 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine].