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Tadeusz Różewicz

Died in 2014

Tadeusz Różewicz (1921-2014), born in Radomsko, the fourth of the five sons of a minor court clerk, worked during the occupation as a messenger, storekeeper and apprentice carpenter, then joined the Home Army in 1942 and fought in its forest units from 1943 to 1944. A poet who gave up metre, stanza and rhyme, he was also a prose writer and screenwriter, often working with his brother Stanisław. He lived in Gliwice after the war, then in Wrocław from 1968, received the Nike Prize in 2000 and died in Wrocław on 24 April 2014.

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