Teodor Parnicki

Teodor Parnicki (1908-1988), born in Charlottenburg, near Berlin, the son of a Polish engineer and a Jewish mother, grew up in Russia. Separated from his family by the revolution and the civil war, he made his way alone, at the age of twelve, to Harbin in Manchuria, where he finished a Polish lycée, then settled in 1928 in Lviv, where he studied literature, Oriental studies and English. Deported by the Soviets, he was from 1941 to 1943 attached to the Polish embassy, lived in Jerusalem, in London and then in Mexico, and returned to Poland in 1967. He died in Warsaw on 5 December 1988.

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• NovelTylko BeatryczeTeodor Parnicki · 1962not translated into EnglishLiterature