Andrzej Ciołkosz (19291952),

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Joseph Marek, was a young Polish language writer, literary critic and translator. He is best known for his Polish-English translation of '' A World Apart: The Journal of a Gulag Survivor'', written by a renowned Polish World War II underground fighter, camp survivor, and

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political writer

Gustaw Herling-Grudziński Gustaw Herling-Grudziński (; 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 ...

. The book written in Polish, was a

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combining various literary genres:

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, as well as sociological and political dissertation. It was first published in 1951 in

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, a year before the sudden death of Ciołkosz at the age of 23.''A world apart'' at Open Library.
Translated from the Polish by Andrzej Ciołkosz (19291952), the son of Adam Witold Ciołkosz (19011978) whos
biography
can be found at the Library of the Polish

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portal.

Life

Andrzej Ciołkosz was born to

Adam Ciołkosz Adam Ciołkosz (; January 5, 1901 – October 1, 1978) was a Polish scout, soldier, publicist and politician, who was one of the most important leaders of the Polish Socialist Party, both in the Second Polish Republic and in exile during and ...

,Jarosław Tomasiewicz,
"Na posterunku. Życiorys niepodległościowego socjalisty" – prezentacja życia i poglądów Adama Ciołkosza
(biography), Lewicowo.pl activist of the

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elected, at age of 27, as member of the Polish parliament

; and his wife Lidia ''

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'' Kahan of Jewish background (

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of the

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). The family escaped to England during the 1939

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by Nazi Germany. His father was an active politician in exile, opposing Soviet takeover of Poland after 1945. Young Andrzej, for whom the study of

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became a lot easier, translated Gustaw Herling under the pseudonym Joseph Marek, but died suddenly a year later in 1952. Nothing else is known. His mother, also a writer (who published the year he died), died in 2002 at age of 99 bestowed with many awards.

References

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