Gustaw Herling-Grudziński

1919 - 2000

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

genre: diary

country of citizenship: Poland

languages spoken, written or signed: Polish

educated at: University of Warsaw

occupation: writer, journalist, literary critic, poet

award received: Order of the White Eagle, Kościelski Award, Viareggio-Versilia International Prize, honorary doctor of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, honorary doctor of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow, honorary doctor of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari

Gustaw Herling-Grudziński (Polish pronunciation: [ˈgustaf 'herlink gru 'dʑiɲskʲi]; May 20, 1919 − July 4, 2000) was a Polish writer, journalist, essayist, World War II underground fighter, and political dissident abroad during the communist system in Poland. He is best known for writing a personal account of life in the Soviet Gulag entitled A World Apart, first published in 1951 in London. Source: Wikipedia (en)