Sławomir Mrożek (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
The son of a village postmaster, Sławomir Mrożek (muh-RAW-jehk) was born on June 26, 1930, in Borzęcin, near Krákow. In 1939, the Soviet army moved into Poland to meet the Nazis, and independent Poland’s twenty-one-year life came to an end. Mrożek spent the remainder of his boyhood near Krákow in a country under foreign domination. Although he never completed a university degree, the playwright studied architecture and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krákow; he also studied Asian art and philosophy for a time. His interest in structure and artifice, as evidenced in the...
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