Leopold Tyrmand (May 16, 1920 in Warsaw, Poland – March 19, 1985) was a Polish novelist and editor. He studied architecture for a year at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris before the war, and during the war was a resistance fighter in Poland, a waiter in Germany (an experience he wrote about in his semi-autobiographical novel "Filip"), and a prisoner in a Norwegian concentration camp. Before he returned to a devastated Poland, he worked with the No...
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Leopold Tyrmand (May 16, 1920 in Warsaw, Poland – March 19, 1985) was a Polish novelist and editor. He studied architecture for a year at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris before the war, and during the war was a resistance fighter in Poland, a waiter in Germany (an experience he wrote about in his semi-autobiographical novel "Filip"), and a prisoner in a Norwegian concentration camp. Before he returned to a devastated Poland, he worked with the Norwegian Red Cross. Leopold Tyrmand rose to prominence for his publication of anti-regime newspapers in Poland. In 1954, he wrote a diary, which he later edited and released in 1980 as "Dziennik 1954". The book, which gives a unique description of the daily life in Stalinist Poland, is now considered to be one of his greatest achievements. He emigrated to the United States in 1966.
In the United States, Tyrmand lived in New York City and New Canaan, Connecticut, until 1976, and regularly published essays in American periodicals such as The New...
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