Aleksander Wat
1900
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1967
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Poland
languages spoken, written or signed: Polish
educated at: University of Warsaw
occupation: linguist, poet, translator, writer
Aleksander Wat was the pen name of Aleksander Chwat (1 May 1900 – 29 July 1967), a Polish poet, writer, art theoretician, memorist, and one of the precursors of the Polish futurism movement in the early 1920s, considered to be one of the more important Polish writers of the mid 20th century. In 1959, he emigrated to France and in 1963 relocated to the United States, where he worked at the Center for Slavic and East European Studies of the University of California, Berkeley. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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