Jerzy Kosiński
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title:
Jerzy Kosiński
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Jerzy Kosiński was a Polish-American writer and two-time president of the American Chapter of P.E.N., who wrote primarily in English. Born in Poland, he survived World War II in Poland as a Jewish boy and, as a young man, emigrated to the U.S., where he became a citizen. He was known for various novels, among them Being There (1971) and the controversial The Painted Bird (1965), which were adapted as films in 1979 and 2019, respectively.
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Polish-American writer (1933–1991)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Kosi%C5%84ski
date created:
2001-07-03T18:57:51Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T08:15:16Z
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