| 1921 | Stanislaw Lem was born in Lwow, Poland (presently Lvov, Ukraine) to a family of a wealthy laryngologist |
| 1932 | starts education at the II K. Szajnocha State Grammar School in Lwow |
| 1939 | obtains secondary school certificate |
1940-41
| studies medicine at the Lwow University |
| 1942 | after the occupation of Lwow by German forces works as a mechanic helper and welder for a German firm recovering raw materials. |
| 1944 | after the second marching in of the Soviet army continues medical studies |
1946
| following the repatriation laws along with his family leaves for Krakow
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| makes his debut with a novel Człowiek z Marsa (A Man from Mars) published as several episodes in "Nowy Świat Przygód" |
| enrolls at the Jagiellonian University to study medicine |
| 1946-48 | cooperates with "Tygodnik Powszechny" and published poems and short stories |
| 1948 | starts writing his first novel Szpital Przemienienia (Hospital of the Transfiguration) |
| 1951 | publishes his first book Astronauci (The Astronauts) |
| 1953 | marries M.D. Barbara Lesniak, a radiologist
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| 1954 | his father dies
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| 1955 | Czas nieutracony (further volumes of Hospital of the Transfiguration) |
| 1957 | Dialogi (Dialogs); Dzienniki gwiazdowe (The Star Diaries) |
| 1959 | Eden; Śledztwo (The Investigation) |
| 1961 | Pamiętnik znaleziony w wannie (Memoirs Found in a Bathtub); Powrót z gwiazd (Return from the Stars); Solaris |
| 1964 | Niezwyciężony (The Invincible); Summa Technologiae
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| 1965 | Cyberiada (The Cyberiad) |
| 1966 | Wysoki Zamek (Highcastle) |
| 1968 | birth of his son |
| 1968 | Opowieści o pilocie Pirxie (Tales of Pirx the Pilot); Głos Pana (His Master's Voice) |
| 1970 | receives a prize from the minister of foreign affairs for popularization of Polish culture abroad
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| 1971 | Doskonała próżnia (A Perfect Vacuum) |
| 1972 | becomes member of the committee of Polska 2000
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| 1973 | Wielkość urojona (Imaginary Magnitude) |
| 1973 | A literary prize of the ministry of culture; honorary member of the Science Ficiton Writers of America
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| 1976 | Katar (The Chain of Chance) |
| 1976 | State Prize of the first degree for literature; expelled from SFWA
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| 1981 | receives a honorary degree from the Wroclaw Polytechnic |
| 1981 | martial law in Poland |
| 1982 | departure for a one-year scholarship of Wissenschaftskolleg in West Berlin
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| 1982 | Wizja lokalna |
| 1983-88 | temporary residence in Vienna
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1986
| awarded Austrian state prize for European Culture for 1985
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| 1987 | Fiasko (Fiasco); Pokoj na Ziemi (Peace on Earth) |
| 1988 | returns to Poland
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| 1991 | Austrian Kafka-prize for Literature |
| 1994 | becomes a member of PAU (Polska Akademia Umiejętności)
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| 1996 | receives the Medal of the White Eagle |
| 1997 | receives honorary citizenship of the city of Krakow |
| 1998 | honorary degrees from: Opole University, State Medical University in Lviv, Jagiellonian University.Medycznego, Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
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2000
| Okamgnienie
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| 2006 | Stanislaw Lem passed away on March 27th
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| 2006 | Rasa drapieżców |
