Wiktor Woroszylski
Wiktor Woroszylski was a poet, writer, translator and film critic.
Biography
He was the son of Grzegorz Woroszylski, a physician, and Barbara née Grodzieńczyk. He attended high school in Grodno, where he stayed until the outbreak of World War II. During the Nazi occupation, he hid as an apprentice with a shoemaker. From November 1941, he was in the ghetto, from which he escaped. He worked odd jobs in a carpentry shop and on the farm. In March 1945, he came to Łódź as part of the Polish [population transfers in 1944–1946|repatriation] operation.He made his debut with the poem Przed Berlinem, published in Głos Ludu, the journal of the Polish Workers' Party, after which he started working as a reporter for Głos Ludu. Also in 1945 he joined Polish Workers' Party. After passing matura, he studied medicine for a year, and in 1946 he began studying Polish philology at the University of Łódź.
In 1949 he became a member of the Polish Writers' Union and traveled to the Soviet Union, including Siberia. In the years 1952—1956 he studied at the Moscow Institute of Literature.
Prose
- 1956 Dziennik węgierski
- 1958 Okrutna gwiazda
- 1960 '
- 1962 Cyryl, gdzie jesteś?
- 1963 Sny pod śniegiem. Opowieść o życiu Sałtykowa-Szczedrina
- 1965 Podmuch malowanego wiatru
- 1973 '
- 1973 Życie Sergiusza Jesienina
- 1977 Literatura
- 1983 Don Kichot
- 1983 Kto zabił Puszkina?
- 2022 ''Historie i inne opowiadania''
Poetry
- 1949 Czuwającym w noc noworoczną
- 1949 Śmierci nie ma
- 1951 Wiosna sześciolatki
- 1955 Z rozmów
- Poem Świt nad Nową Hutą
- 1960 Wanderjahre
- 1962 Twój powszedni morderca
- 1964 Niezgoda na ukłon
- 1969 Przygoda w Babilonie
- 1970 Zagłada gatunków
- 1974 Wybór wierszy
- 1982 Jesteś i inne wiersze
- 1983 Lustro
- 1983 ''Dziennik internowania''
Other works
- Moi Moskale
- Życie Majakowskiego — In English as The Life of Mayakovsky. New York: The Orion Press, 1970
- Marsz Sportowy
- Pozwólcie nam się cieszyć
- Dzienniki. Tom I–III, Ośrodek KARTA, Warszawa 2017–2019
- ''Dużo śmiechu, trochę smutku to historia o mamutku''
Film adaptations
Distinctions and awards
- , 3rd class, on the occasion of the 22nd of July holiday, for the poem O Generale Świerczewskim and the volume of poems entitled Śmierci nie ma
- Medal of the [10th Anniversary of People's Poland]
- Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Kościelski Award