Witold Zalewski
Appearance
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Born | Siedlce, Poland | 4 January 1921
Died | 2009 |
Occupation | publicist, prosaist, novelist |
Nationality | Polish |
Subject | war, occupation, socialist realism |
Witold Zalewski (4 January 1921, in Siedlce – 2009) is a Polish writer, publicist and prosaist. During the Occupation of Poland he was a soldier of Armia Krajowa and participated in Warsaw Uprising. Zalewski was associated with conspiratory magazine Dźwigary, editorial board member of weekly magazine Pokolenie (1946–1947), publicist of Przegląd Kulturalny (1952–1963), publicist of Kultura (1963–1970).
In his works, Zalewski refers to war events, his generation, and relations between his generation and socialist realism. He analyses moral choices of war and occupation period. Zalewski is an author of one of the Polish socialist-realist book Traktory zdobędą wiosnę.
Selected works
[edit]- Mrok (1943) – debut story published in Dźwigary
- Śmiertelni bohaterowie (1946) – story
- Broń (1948) – novel
- Ranny w lesie (1960)
- Traktory zdobędą wiosnę (1950)
- Pruski mur (1964)
- Splot słoneczny (1972)
- Czarne jagody (1975)
- Dolina Królów (1976) – essay
- Odmiany nadziei (1968)
- Ostatni postój (1979) – novel about January Uprising
- Pożegnanie twierdzy (1985)
- Wysłannik (1988)
- Pożegnanie twierdzy (2000)
- Zakładnicy (2001) – novel with autobiographical elements
See also
[edit]External links
[edit]- "Witold Zalewski biographical note". Agawa (in Polish).
References
[edit]- "Zalewski Witold". Internetowa encyklopedia PWN (in Polish). Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN. Retrieved 2007-10-06.
- "Zalewski Witold". WIEM Encyclopedia (in Polish). Retrieved 2007-10-06.
Categories:
- 1921 births
- 2009 deaths
- People from Siedlce
- Home Army members
- Polish male novelists
- Polish publicists
- Polish essayists
- Polish male essayists
- Socialist realism writers
- 20th-century Polish novelists
- 20th-century essayists
- Recipients of the State Award Badge (Poland)
- Recipients of the Medal of the 10th Anniversary of the People's Republic of Poland
- Polish writer stubs