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Tadeusz Konwicki Biography (1926-)

Born June 22, 1926, in Nowa Wilejka, Poland; son of Michal (a metal worker) and Jadwiga (Kiezun) Konwicki; married Danuta Lenica, April 25, 1949; children: Maria, Anna.

Nationality

Polish

Gender

Male

Birth Details

June 22, 1926

Nowa Wilejka, Poland

Famous Works

• Credits; FILM DIRECTOR
• Ostatni dzien lata (title means "The Last Day of Summer"), Film Polski, 1960.
• Zaduszki (title means "Halloween"), Film Polski, 1962.
• Salto, Film Polski, 1965.
• Jak daleko stad, jak blisko (title means "So Far, So Near"), Film Polski,1972.
• Dolina Issy (title means "Issa Valley"), Film Polski, 1982.
• Lawa (also known as Lava), Film Polski, 1989.
• Director of the film Matura (title means "The Entrance Examination"), 1965.
• Credits; FILM APPEARANCES
• The stranger, Kronika Wypadkow Milosnych (title means "The Chronicle of Love Affairs"), Zespoly, 1986.
• Also appeared in Avant la Bataille, 1982.
• Credits; STAGE DIRECTOR
• Yegor Bulytehew, Theatr Ateneum, Warsaw, 1994.
• Writings;SCREENPLAYS
• Ostatni dzien lata (title means "The Last Day of Summer"), Film Polski, 1958.
• (With Jerzy Kawalerowicz) Matka Joanna od Aniolow (based on a story by Jaroslav Iwaszkiewcz), Film Polski, 1961, released as Joan of the Angels, Telepix, 1962.
• Zaduszki (title means "Halloween"), Film Polski, 1962.
• (With Jerzy Kawalerowicz) Faraon (title means "Pharaoh"), Film Polski, 1965.
• Salto, Film Polski, 1965.
• Jowita (based on the novel Disneyland by Stanislaw Dygat), Film Polski, 1967, released as Jovita, Altura, 1970.
• Jak daleko stad, jak blisko (title means "So Far, So Near"), Film Polski,1972.
• Dolina issy (title means "Issa Valley"), Film Polski, 1982.
• Kronika wypadkow milosnych (title means "The Chronicle of Love Affairs";based on his novel), Zespoly, 1986.
• (With Jerzy Kawalerowicz and Julian Stryjkowski) Austeria, AFRA, 1988.
• Lawa (title means "Lava"; based on the dramatic poem "Dziady" by Adam Mickewicz), Film Polski, 1989.
• Author of Zimowy zmierzch (title means "Winter's Twilight"), 1956; and Matura (title means "The Entrance Examination"), 1965.
• Writings;NOVELS
• Wladza (title means "The Power"), Czytelnik (Warsaw), 1954.
• Godzina smutku (title means "The Hour of Sadness"), Czytelnik (Warsaw), 1954.
• Rojsty (title means "The Marshes"), Czytelnik (Warsaw), 1956.
• Z oblezonego miasta (title means "From the Besieged Town"), Iskry (Warsaw), 1956.
• Dziura w niebie (title means "A Hole in the Sky"), Iskry (Warsaw), 1959.
• Sennik wspolczesny, Iskry (Warsaw), 1963, translation by David Welsh published as A Dreambook for Our Time, MIT Press, 1969.
• Wniebowstapienie (title means "Ascension"), Iskry (Warsaw), 1967.
• Zwierzoczlekoupior, illustrations by wife Danuta Konwicki, Czytelnik (Warsaw), 1969, translation by George Korwin-Rodziszewski and Audrey Korwin-Rodziszewski published as The Anthropos-Specter-Beast, S. G.
• Phillips, 1977.
• Nic albo Nic (title means "Nothing or Nothing"), Czytelnik (Warsaw), 1971.
• Kronika wypadkow milosnych (title means "The Chronicle of Love Events"),Czytelnik (Warsaw), 1974.
• Kalendarz i klepsydra (title means "A Calendar and an Hourglass"), Czytelnik (Warsaw), 1976.
• Kompleks polski, Index on Censorship (London), 1977, translation by Richard Lourie published as The Polish Complex, Farrar, Straus, 1982.
• Mala apokalipsa, Index on Censorship (London), 1979, translation by Richard Lourie published as A Minor Apocalypse, Farrar, Straus, 1983.
• Wschody i zachody ksiezyca, Index on Censorship (London), 1982, translation by Richard Lourie published as Moonrise, Moonset, Farrar, Straus, 1987.
• Rzeka podziemna, podziemne ptaki (title means "Underground River, Underground Birds"), ANEKS, 1985.
• Bohin Manor (translated by Richard Lourie), Farrar, Straus, 1990.
• Writings;OTHER
• Przy budowie (stories; title means "At the Building Site"), Czytelnik (Warsaw), 1950.
• Ostatni dzien lata (screenplays; contains Ostatni dzien lata, Zaduszki, Salto, Matura, Zimowy zmlerzch, and Jak daleko stad, jak blisko), Iskry (Warsaw), 1966, revised edition, 1973.
• Dlaczego kot jest kotem (juvenile; title means "Why a Cat Is a Cat"), KAW(Warsaw), 1976.

Further Reference

BOOKS

• Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Volume 9, Gale, 1989.
• Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale, Volume 8, 1978, Volume 28, 1984,Volume 54, 1989.

PERIODICALS

• Christian Science Monitor, October 13, 1983.
• Modern Fiction Studies, spring, 1986.
• Nation, June 19, 1976.
• New Republic, April 10, 1976; November 21, 1983.
• New Yorker, February 21, 1983; January 2, 1984.
• New York Review of Books, May 27, 1976; March 4, 1982; October 13, 1983;December 17, 1987.
• New York Times, August 13, 1987.
• New York Times Book Review, May 17, 1970; January 10, 1982; October 23,1983; August 30, 1987.
• Polish Review, Volume 29, number 3, 1984.
• Saturday Review, June 20, 1970.
• Times Literary Supplement, July 22-28, 1988.
• Village Voice, September 15, 1987.
• World Literature Today, summer, 1977; spring, 1980.