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Jan Józef Szczepański (January 12, 1919 – February 20, 2003) was a Polish writer, reporter, essayist, film scriptwriter and translator, Tatra mountaineer, and traveller. He was the president of the Association of Polish Writers.
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Jan Józef Szczepański (January 12, 1919 – February 20, 2003) was a Polish writer, reporter, essayist, film scriptwriter and translator, Tatra mountaineer, and traveller. He was the president of the Association of Polish Writers.
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Early life Jan Józef Szczepański was born on January 12, 1919, in Warsaw, Poland. His father was Aleksander Szczepański, diplomat of the Second Polish Republic and economist, associated with the zinc industry of Upper Silesia, brother of Maria Kuncewiczowa, and his mother was Maria Znatowicz-Szczepańska, a French teacher, translator of Serbian literature and publicist. From the years 1932 to 1937, his family lived in Katowice, where Szczepański attended the boys' State Gymnasium and High School at Mickiewicza Street. Then he studied Oriental studies, graduating in 1947.
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Career He took part in the September campaign in 1939. In 1941, he joined the Military Organization Lizard Union (from 1942 National Armed Forces) and worked in an intelligence unit until 1943, when he became a soldier of the Home Army. In 1944, he fought in the guerrilla movement. He devoted his war prose to this period: a story about the September defeat (Polska Jesień) and guerrilla stories (Buty), in which he critically confronts the legend of the "forest people". War themes were also found in the scripts for Stanisław Różewicz's films (Westerplatte and Wolne miasto). After the war he joined the "Tygodnik Powszechny"; from the years 1947-1953 he was a member of the editorial board. He was the last president of the Association of Polish Writers, dissolved by the martial law authorities (he documented this period in the book Kadencja). He was one of the founders of the Polish Independence Agreement. In 1978, he also signed the founding declaration of the Society of Academic Courses. He translated into Polish, among others, the prose of Conrad and Greene, Bajki murzyńskie. He co-signed the Letter of 59 in 1975 and the letter of intellectuals in defense of the brothers Jerzy and…
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Personal life In 1947, he married Danuta Wolska. He was the closest friend of the writer Stanisław Lem and godfather of his son Tomasz. He was the prototype of the character Prother in the novel His Master's Voice. He died on February 20, 2003, in Kraków, Poland.