Jalu Kurek was a Polish poet and prose writer

Writer

A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

, one of the figures of the so-called Kraków avant-garde. He was a laureate of the Young Poland

Young Poland

Young Poland is a modernist period in Polish visual arts, literature and music, covering roughly the years between 1890 and 1918. It was a result of strong aesthetic opposition to the ideas of Positivism...

 Literary Award for the novel "Grypa szaleje w Naprawie" ("Influenza ravages Naprawa").

He graduated from the Bartłomiej Nowodworski High School in Kraków and obtained a degree in Philosophy from Jagiellonian University

Jagiellonian University

The Jagiellonian University was established in 1364 by Casimir III the Great in Kazimierz . It is the oldest university in Poland, the second oldest university in Central Europe and one of the oldest universities in the world....

. He continued his studies at University of Naples. He was a lifelong friend of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti was an Italian poet and editor, the founder of the Futurist movement, and a fascist ideologue.-Childhood and adolescence:...

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