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Głowacki, Janusz

LC control no.n 84067572
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPG7166.L58
Personal name headingGłowacki, Janusz
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Associated countryPoland
LocatedWarsaw (Poland) New York (N.Y.)
Birth date1938-09-13
Death date2017-08-19
Place of birthPoznań (Poland)
Place of deathEgypt
Profession or occupationWriters Playwrights Novelists Essayists Screenwriters
Found inHis Moc truchleje, 1982: t.p. (Janusz Głowacki) p. 4 of cover (b. 1938)
LC data base, 4-5-84 (hdg.: Głowacki, Janusz)
New York times WWW site, viewed Aug. 23, 2017 (in obituary published Aug. 22: Janusz Glowacki; b. Sept. 13, 1938, Poznan; while Glowacki was in London in December 1981 for a production of his play Cinders at the Royal Court Theater, Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland's Communist leader, cracked down on the country's budding Solidarity trade union movement and declared martial law; what had been intended as a short trip turned into eight years of self-imposed exile; Glowacki settled in New York City; returned to Poland after the collapse of Communism at the end of the 1980s; thereafter he split his time between Warsaw and New York; d. Saturday [Aug. 19, 2017], while vacationing in Egypt, aged 78; Polish playwright, novelist, and screenwriter who mined the ferment of Communism and its collapse in his country to create darkly humorous works about totalitarianism and the émigré experience)
Wikipedia, viewed Feb. 5, 2024 (Janusz Głowacki; full name, Janusz Andrzej Głowacki; Polish playwright, essayist, screenwriter)
Associated languagepol