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Wojciech Żukrowski (14 April 1916 in Kraków – 26 August 2000 in Warsaw) was a Polish prosaist, poet, reporter, essayist and literary critic.
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Wojciech Żukrowski (14 April 1916 in Kraków – 26 August 2000 in Warsaw) was a Polish prosaist, poet, reporter, essayist and literary critic.
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Life In 1936, Żukrowski graduated from High School Zana in Pruszkow. In the same year he made his writing debut in a youth magazine, Kuźnia Młodych. After basic military training, in 1937, he matriculated at Jagiellonian University. He began his studies at the Faculty of Law in accordance with the wishes of his father, a lawyer and economist. However, in 1938, he transferred his studies to the Faculty of Humanities, studying Polish philology. At the outbreak of World War II, he joined the Polish Army horse artillery. He was wounded in his right leg. Stephanie Kraft, who translated his novel, Kamienne tablice (Stone Tablets), to English wrote that during the German occupation of Poland in World War II, Żukrowski worked at the Solvay limestone quarry alongside Karol Józef Wojtyła, who became Pope John Paul II. The quarry was not watched closely by the Germans and was a refuge for Polish intellectuals. The two were part of an underground acting group called the Rhapsodic Theatre. They continued to correspond by letter until Żukrowski's death in 2000. He was after the war an officer in the People's Army and 1953/54 Front correspondent in Vietnam. From 1956 to 1959 he was in the…
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W kamieniołomie i inne opowiadania (1954) Dom bez ścian. Dziennik pobytu w Wietnamie (1954) Ognisko w dżungli. Opowieści i baśnie z Wietnamu (1955)
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Opowieści z Dalekiego Wschodu (1965) Kamienne tablice (1966); English translation "Stone Tablets" (2016),
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Karambole (1973) W głębi zwierciadła. Gawędy o pisarzach i książkach (1973)
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Rozmowy o książkach (1989) Czarci tuzin (compilation of series published in 2000)