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Renowned Polish poet and author Jerzy Ficowski
dies at 82
Copyright 2006 dpa Deutsche Presse-Agentur
GmbH: Tuesday, May. 9, 2006 - 9:20 AM
Warsaw (dpa) - The leading biographer
of Poland's literary legend Bruno Schulz, Polish
poet and author Jerzy Ficowski died in Warsaw Tuesday
aged 82, Poland's Writers' Guild confirmed.
A
Polish anti-Nazi resistance
fighter during the World War
II Ficowski was also renowned
for his tomes of poetry touching
on the tragic fate of Polish
Jews in the Holocaust.
He was the foremost expert author on the art and culture
of Polish Roma, or gypsies, and the leading biographer
of renowned Polish- Jewish graphic artist and author
Bruno Schulz, who was gunned down by a German officer
in his hometown of Drohobycz during the war.
Ficowski's biography of Schulz,
entitled The Realms of the Grand Heresy, received rave
reviews in both Poland and the United States.
Born
in 1924, Ficowski also penned the foremost work on
Polish Roma, The
Gypsies in Poland: History and Customs. Among his other
books was The Vicinity of the Street of Crocodiles,
in homage to Schulz.
Ficowski also penned dozens of tomes of poetry, much
of it reflecting on human suffering during the Holocaust.
His work has been widely translated into English, French,
Hebrew and German.
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