Marian Pankowski

Marian Pankowski was a Polish writer, poet, literary critic and translator.
Pankowski was born in Sanok. He was a member of the Polish resistance during [World War II], and a prisoner in the Nazi [concentration camps|Nazi concentration camp] Bergen-Belsen. After the war, he settled in Belgium, where he died in Brussels from pneumonia on 3 April 2011 at the age of 91.

Writing

Pankowski's Holocaust narratives critically engage with the Polish tradition; he frequently criticizes the pronounced patriarchalism cum Catholicism. The controversy that resulted from his writing seems to stem from his "unconventional approach to sexuality, including same-sex love."
Besides writing original work, Pankowski has published translations of Polish poetry into French.