Kornel Filipowicz
Kornel Filipowicz (27 October 1913 – 28 February 1990) was a Polish novelist, poet, screenwriter and short stories writer.
Kornel Filipowicz
- Name
- Kornel Filipowicz
- Born
- 27 October 1913
- Birthplace
- Tarnopol, Austria-Hungary
- Died
- 28 February 1990
- Place of death
- Kraków, Poland
- Occupation
- Novelist, screenwriter, poet
- Spouse
- Maria Jarema
- Nationality
- Poland
- Education
- Jagiellonian University
- Honours
- Officer of the Order of Polonia Restituta · Gold Cross of Merit
- Languages
- Polish
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Kornel Filipowicz (27 October 1913 – 28 February 1990) was a Polish novelist, poet, screenwriter and short stories writer.
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• Name — Kornel Filipowicz • Born — 27 October 1913 • Birthplace — Tarnopol, Austria-Hungary • Died — 28 February 1990 • Place of death — Kraków, Poland • Citizenship — Polish • Period — 1947–1984 • Occupation — Novelist, screenwriter, poet • Spouse — Maria Jarema
Biography
Biography
The son of Karol Filipowicz and Stanisława née Futyma. He graduated from a mathematics and natural sciences gymnasium in Cieszyn. In 1933 he enrolled at the Jagiellonian University to study biology. He joined the Związek Niezależnej Młodzieży Socjalistycznej. In 1945 he married Maria Jarema. From 1975, he was a board member of the Kraków Branch of the Polish Writers' Union (ZLP), and from 1980, its vice-president. In 1964 he married Maria Próchnicka. From 1967 he was in a relationship with Wisława Szymborska. He was buried at the Salwator Cemetery.
Poetry
Poetry
• Mijani (The Ones Passed By, 1943) • Powiedz to słowo (Say This Word, 1997)
Prose
Prose
• Krajobraz niewzruszony (Landscape Unmoved, 1947) • Księżyc nad Nidą (The Moon Over Nida, 1950) • Ulica Gołębia (Gołębia Street, 1955) • Ciemność i światło (Darkness and Light, 1959) • Biały ptak (A White Bird, 1960) • Romans prowincjonalny (A Provincial Romance, 1960) • Pamiętnik antybohatera (The Memoir of an Anti-Hero, 1961; English translation by Anna Zaranko, 2019, winner of the Found in Translation Award 2020) • Mój przyjaciel i ryby (My Friend and Fishes, 1963) • Jeniec i dziewczyna (A Captive and A Girl, 1964) • Ogród pana Nietschke (The Garden of Mr. Nietschke, 1965) • Mężczyzna jak dziecko (A Man As a Child, 1967) • Co jest w człowieku (What's In the Man, 1971) • Śmierć mojego antagonisty (The Death of My Antagonist, 1972) • Gdy przychodzi silniejszy (When the Stronger, 1974) • Kot w mokrej trawie (A Cat In a Wet Grass, 1977) • Dzień wielkiej ryby (The Day of a Great Fish, 1978) • Zabić jelenia (To Kill a Deer, 1978) • Krajobraz, który przeżył śmierć (The Landscape That Survived the Death, 1986) • Rozmowy na schodach (Conversations At the Stairs, 1989) • Wszystko, co mieć można (All That One Can Have, 1991)
Screenplays
Screenplays
• Three Women (1956 film) (1956) • Based on his 1956 short story "Trzy kobiety z obozu" about returning home of three women which were captives in a Nazi concentration camp • Miejsce na ziemi (A Place on Earth, 1959) • Głos z tamtego świata (The Voice From the Other World, 1962) • Piekło i niebo (film) (Heaven and Hell, 1966) • Szklana kula (Crystal Ball, 1972) • Egzekucja w ZOO (1975)
Identity
Identity
Kornel Filipowicz is recorded with the occupation prose writer. Recorded as having received Officer of the Order of Polonia Restituta and Gold Cross of Merit.
Life and career
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1913
Kornel Filipowicz was born in 1913 at Ternopil.
1990
Kornel Filipowicz died on 28 February 1990.
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Ternopil.
Birth place
Kraków.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q828373: Kornel Filipowicz
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- “Kornel Filipowicz”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Awards
• Gold Cross of Merit (1955) • Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1963)
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