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Jerzy Kosiński (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjɛʐɨ kɔˈɕij̃skʲi]; born Józef Lewinkopf; June 14, 1933 – May 3, 1991) was a Polish-American writer and two-time president of the American Chapter of P.E.N., who wrote primarily in English.
Jun 10, 2024 · In 1957 he emigrated to the United States (settling in New York), taught himself English, and published two nonfiction works, The Future Is Ours, Comrade: Conversations with the Russians (1960) and No Third Path (1962), under the pen name Joseph Novak.
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Directed by Hal Ashby, it is based on the 1970 novel of the same name by Jerzy Kosiński, and adapted for the screen by Kosiński and the uncredited Robert C. Jones. Jack Warden , Richard Dysart , and Richard Basehart are featured in support.
Jun 10, 2020 · Jerzy Kosiński’s novel The Painted Bird contains depictions of wartime brutality that shock even the most desensitised reader. It tells the tale of an orphaned boy wandering through villages in war-torn Eastern Europe, meeting a rogues’ gallery of strange, abusive characters.
Nov 16, 2023 · For a week in 1980 and five months in 1981, I worked for the controversial Polish American novelist Jerzy Kosinski. He wasn’t controversial then. Brilliant, charismatic, fawned on by New...
- Wayne Lawson
Who was Jerzy Kosiński? A popular writer, acclaimed photographer, prized scriptwriter, piercing sociologist? Perhaps only the Great Manipulator, or even the Absolute Mystificator? Regardless of the assumed standpoint, Kosiński's biography itself reads like a well-written screenplay...
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Jerzy Kosinski, ca. 1973. Photograph by Rob Mieremet. Editor’s Note: The following conversation with Jerzy Kosinski, which does not contain the customary interviewer’s headnote, is a much expanded version of the one that appeared in The Paris Review in 1972 .
