Jerzy Andrzejewski
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Jerzy Andrzejewski (August 19, 1909, Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire - April 19, 1983, Warsaw) was a prolific Polish author. In 1976 he was one of the founding members of the intellectual opposition group KOR (Workers' Defence Committee). On 23 September 2006, he was posthumously given the rank of Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
He is "Alpha" in Czeslaw Milosz's book The Captive Mind.
Two of his novels, Ashes and Diamonds, about post-war Poland, and Holy Week, dealing with the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, have been turned into film adaptations by the Oscar-winning Polish director Andrzej Wajda.
Holy Week and Ashes and Diamonds have both been translated into English,
Although he was frequently considered to be a front-runner for the Nobel Prize for Literature, he was never awarded.
Andrzejewski was a strong supporter of Poland's anti-Communist Solidarity movement.
[edit] List of works
- Unavoidable Roads (1936, a collection of short stories)
- Mode of the Heart (1938, first novel, winner of award from the Polish Academy of Literature)
- The Inquisitors
- Ashes and Diamonds (1948, and the film version won the International Critics' Prize at the 1959 Venice Film Festival)
- An Effective War
- Gates to Paradise A book notable for being written in one long sentence, sans almost any punctuation.
- A Sitter for a Satyr (published in the United Kingdom as He Cometh Leaping upon the Mountain)
