Sławomir Mrożek

1930 - 2013

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

genre: play, prose, writer

country of citizenship: Poland, France

languages spoken, written or signed: Polish

educated at: Bartłomiej Nowodworski High School

occupation: writer, playwright, diarist, journalist, science fiction writer, painter

award received: Knight of the Legion of Honour, Golden Medal for Merit to Culture, Samuel-Bogumil-Linde prize, Kościelski Award, Commander with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta, Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, Franz-Kafka-Preis, Austrian State Prize for European Literature, honorary doctor of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow, Order Ecce Homo

Sławomir Mrożek (29 June 1930 – 15 August 2013) was a Polish dramatist, writer and cartoonist. Mrożek joined the Polish United Workers' Party during the reign of Stalinism in the People's Republic of Poland, and made a living as a political journalist. He began writing plays in the late 1950s. His theatrical works belong to the genre of absurdist fiction, intended to shock the audience with non-realistic elements, political and historic references, distortion, and parody.In 1963 he emigrated to Italy and France, then further to Mexico. In 1996 he returned to Poland and settled in Kraków. In 2008 he moved back to France. He died in Nice at the age of 83. Source: Wikipedia (en)