- 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.
- His books were officially released and widely read when he was in favor with the government authorities; but by the late 1960s and early '70s, when his works were no longer officially approved, they were available only in clandestine editions.
- Retrospective at the 15th New Horizons Film Festival (2015).
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