Janusz Minkiewicz

Janusz Minkiewicz (born June 25, 1914 in St. Petersburg – May 29, 1981 in Warsaw) was a Polish writer, translator, journalist and satirist.

Grave of Janusz Minkiewicz and his wife Jadwiga

Born in St. Petersburg, he graduated from the faculty of philosophy of the Warsaw University. Active in various journals, he was considered one of the heirs to the Skamander group of poets. In 1939 he fled Nazi-occupied part of Poland to Vilna, then under Lithuanian occupation, where in 1940 (after the Soviet take-over of the city) he ran a satirical theatre, as well as the "Ksantypa" cabaret in Biały Sztral cafe. [1]Following the German take-over of the city in 1941 he moved back to Warsaw, where he collaborated with numerous officially-approved theatres. [2] After the war he became a noted translator of literature, mostly Russian. He collaborated with satiric journals Szpilki, Przekrój and Cyrulik Warszawski.

References
  1. Halina Jotkiałło (December 2006). "Maja Komorowska – w Wilnie". Magazyn Wileński (in Polish) (12–2006): 12. ISSN 0236-4719. Archived from the original on 2011-07-16.
  2. Sława i infamia. Z Bohdanem Korzeniewskim rozmawia Małgorzata Szejnert, Wyd. Literackie, Kraków 1992, str. 30 i 45.
  • Literatura polska. Przewodnik encyklopedyczny, tom I, PWN, Warszawa 1984
  • Lesław Bartelski, Polscy pisarze współcześni 1944-1970, Agencja Autorska, Warszawa 1972


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