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 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, 1970Marsz Sportowy Pozwólcie nam się cieszyć Dzienniki. Tom I–III, Ośrodek KARTA, Warszawa 2017–2019
  • ''Dużo śmiechu, trochę smutku to historia o mamutku''

Film adaptations

His novels I ty zostaniesz Indianinem and Mniejszy szuka Dużego were made into films.

Distinctions and awards