 | You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Polish. (May 2026) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
|
Wiktor Woroszylski | |
|---|---|
| Born | 8 June 1927 |
| Died | 13 September 1996 (aged 69) |
| Citizenship | Polish |
| Occupations | Poet, writer, translator, film critic |
Wiktor Woroszylski (8 June 1927 — 13 September 1996) was a poet, writer, translator and film critic.
He was the son of Grzegorz Woroszylski, a physician, and Barbara née Grodzieńczyk. He attended high school in Grodno, where he stayed until the outbreak of World War II. During the Nazi occupation, he hid as an apprentice with a shoemaker. From November 1941, he was in the ghetto, from which he escaped. He worked odd jobs in a carpentry shop and on the farm. In March 1945, he came to Łódź as part of the repatriation operation.
He made his debut with the poem Przed Berlinem (Before Berlin), published in Głos Ludu, the journal of the Polish Workers' Party (25 April 1945), after which he started working as a reporter for Głos Ludu. Also in 1945 he joined Polish Workers' Party. After passing matura, he studied medicine for a year, and in 1946 he began studying Polish philology at the University of Łódź.
In 1949 he became a member of the Polish Writers' Union and traveled to the Soviet Union, including Siberia. In the years 1952—1956 he studied at the Moscow Institute of Literature. In 1966 he left Polish United Workers' Party.
His novels I ty zostaniesz Indianinem and Mniejszy szuka Dużego were made into films.
