Kornel Filipowicz (27 October 1913 – 28 February 1990) was a Polish novelist, poet and screenwriter, most notable for his

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Works (selection)

Poetry

* ''Mijani'' (''The Ones Passed By'', 1943) * ''Powiedz to słowo'' (''Say This Word'', 1997)

Prose

* ''Krajobraz niewzruszony'' (''Landscape Unmoved'', 1947) * ''Księżyc nad Nidą'' (''The Moon Over Nida'', 1950) * ''Ulica Gołębia'' (''Gołębia Street'', 1955) * ''Ciemność i światło'' (''Darkness and Light'', 1959) * ''Biały ptak'' (''A White Bird'', 1960) * ''Romans prowincjonalny'' (''A Provincial Romance'', 1960) * ''Pamiętnik antybohatera'' (''The Memoir of an Anti-Hero'', 1961; English translation by Anna Zaranko, 2019, winner of the

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2020) * ''Mój przyjaciel i ryby'' (''My Friend and Fishes'', 1963) * ''Jeniec i dziewczyna'' (''A Captive and A Girl'', 1964) * ''Ogród pana Nietschke'' (''The Garden of Mr. Nietschke'', 1965) * ''Mężczyzna jak dziecko'' (''A Man As a Child'', 1967) * ''Co jest w człowieku'' (''What's In the Man'', 1971) * ''Śmierć mojego antagonisty'' (''The Death of My Antagonist'', 1972) * ''Gdy przychodzi silniejszy'' (''When the Stronger'', 1974) * ''Kot w mokrej trawie'' (''A Cat In a Wet Grass'', 1977) * ''Dzień wielkiej ryby'' (''The Day of a Great Fish'', 1978) * ''Zabić jelenia'' (''To Kill a Deer'', 1978) * ''Krajobraz, który przeżył śmierć'' (''The Landscape That Survived the Death'', 1986) * ''Rozmowy na schodach'' (''Conversations At the Stairs'', 1989) * ''Wszystko, co mieć można'' (''All That One Can Have'', 1991)

Screenplays

* ''Trzy kobiety'' (''Three Woman'', 1956) * ''Miejsce na ziemi'' (''A Place on Earth'', 1959) * ''Głos z tamtego świata'' (''The Voice From the Other World'', 1962) * ''Piekło i Niebo'' (''Heaven and Hell'', 1966) * ''Szklana kula'' (''Crystal Ball'', 1972)

Awards

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(1955) * Officer's Cross of Polonia Restituta (1963)

References

1913 births 1990 deaths Burials at Salwator Cemetery Polish male poets 20th-century Polish male writers 20th-century Polish poets Polish military personnel of World War II Gross-Rosen concentration camp survivors Sachsenhausen concentration camp survivors Officers of the Order of Polonia Restituta Recipients of the Gold Cross of Merit (Poland) Writers from Ternopil 20th-century Polish screenwriters Male screenwriters {{Poland-writer-stub