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Witold Gombrowicz

Died in 1969

Witold Gombrowicz, born on 4 August 1904 in Małoszyce into a landed gentry family, obtained his law degree in Warsaw in 1927, attended the Institute of Higher International Studies in Paris, then gave up a legal career for the literary cafés of the capital. Invited on a cruise aboard the liner Chrobry, he disembarked in Argentina on 20 August 1939 and stayed there until 1963, poor, then an employee of the Banco Polaco. Back in Europe thanks to a Ford Foundation grant, he settled in Vence, married Rita Labrosse there on 28 December 1968 and died there on 24 July 1969.

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