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- Tadeusz Konwicki was born on June 22, 1926 in Nowa Wilejka, Wilenskie, Poland [now Naujoji Vilnia, Vilnius, Lithuania]. He was a writer and director, known for Lawa. Opowiesc o 'Dziadach' Adama Mickiewicza (1989), Dolina Issy (1982) and The Last Day of Summer (1958). He was married to Danuta Konwicka. He died on January 7, 2015 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- SpouseDanuta Konwicka(April 25, 1949 - August 30, 1999) (her death, 2 children)
- Had two daughters with his wife Danuta: Maria Konwicka and Anna Konwicka.
- His wife was a book illustrator and sister of director-painter Jan Lenica.
- He was conscripted into a Nazi labor force, and worked clearing a forest and then escaped, joining the partisans. After the war, he studied in Krakow and then in Warsaw, but never graduated from college. He became a reporter and critic, writing mainly about film, and began to write short stories and novels.
- He was forced to leave high school at the outbreak of WWII, when the Nazis forbade Poles to attend school. He finished his class work clandestinely.
- His most acclaimed novel, "A Minor Apocalypse" (1979), is widely considered to be among the most important works of post-WWII Eastern European literature. It is required reading for all Polish high school students.
- I write above all for the reader, with the intention of giving pleasure, amusing, stunning or destroying. It is impossible to write without another person.
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