Andrzej Kijowski was a Polish literary critic, essayist, prose

Prose

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 and screenwriter

Screenwriter

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. His son is poet and critic Andrzej Tadeusz Kijowski

Andrzej Tadeusz Kijowski

Andrzej Tadeusz Kijowski is a Polish aesthetician, theatre critic, literary critic, poet and publicist.Son of the writer Andrzej Kijowski. From 1976 to 1989 participated in the democratic opposition...

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Kijowski, Sr. wrote for such publications as Przegląd Kulturalny and Tygodnik Powszechny

Tygodnik Powszechny

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. He was editor for many years of Twórczość

Twórczość

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, where the well-known Kroniki Dedala (Daedalus Chronicles) was published.

He authored the Polish writers' resolution against censorship after the play Dziady (Ghost) by Adam Mickiewicz

Adam Mickiewicz

Adam Bernard Mickiewicz ) was a Polish poet, publisher and political writer of the Romantic period. One of the primary representatives of the Polish Romanticism era, a national poet of Poland, he is seen as one of Poland's Three Bards and the greatest poet in all of Polish literature...

 was withdrawn from the stage on 29 February 1968. A literary director at Warsaw’s Dramatic Theatre from 1967 to 1968, he was removed by the Communist authorities. He was one of organizers of polish Flying University.

Director at Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Krakow

Kraków

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 from 1981 until he resigned in February 1982 after being released from Jaworze, where he had been interned for reasons connected to Martial law in Poland

Martial law in Poland

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Literary work

• • Wrote stories:

• Oskarżony (The Accused)
• Pseudonimy (Pseudonyms)
• Szyfry (The Codes)
• Dyrygent
  The Orchestra Conductor
  The Orchestra Conductor is a 1980 Polish drama film directed by Andrzej Wajda. It was entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival, where Andrzej Seweryn won the Silver Bear for Best Actor.-Cast:* John Gielgud - John Lasocki...
  
  (The Orchestra Conductor)

• • Wrote critical essays:

• Miniatury krytyczne (Critical Miniatures)
• Szósta Dekada (The Sixties)
• Listopadowy wieczór (November Evening)

• • Wrote screenplays:

• Szyfry (The Codes)
• Wesele (The Wedding
  The Wedding (1972 film)
  Wesele is a motion picture made in 1972 in Poland by Andrzej Wajda as an adaptation of a play by the same title written by Stanisław Wyspiański in 1901. Wajda also directed "Wesele" for the theatre....
  
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• Dyrygent (The Orchestra Conductor)
• Z Dalekiego Kraju (From a Far Country)

External links

• Andrzej Kijowski website