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Kuniczak, Wieslaw

Novelist, author of the "Thousand Hour Day" which was translated into 14 languages and published in 40,000 copies. His other WWII novels include "The March" and "Valedictory." Received degrees from Alliance and Columbia University. Lectured at Alliance and Produced a new English version of Sienkiewicz's "Trilogy."

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Wieslaw Kuniczak
(1930-2000)

Writer and translator of Polish literature

A noted writer and translator of Polish literature. He was born in Lwow and escaped to England during World War II. In 1958 Kuniczak became an American citizen and settled in Pennsylvania.

He wrote The Thousand Hour Day (1966), a trilogy of Polish Experience in World War II, which was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1984. His other works include Valedictory, the story of an ace pilot in the Polish Air Force during the war, and the award winning My Name Is Million: An Illustrated History of the Poles in America (1978).

Kuniczak is also known for his controversial "modern translations" of works by the famous 19th century Polish historical novelist Henryk Sienkiewicz (Quo Vadis, With Fire and Sword).

Kuniczak's accessible style and modern language, praised in the New York Times' Book Review section/ attracted many who had never read Sienkiewicz in English.

From: Good News 2005 - 2006. A publication of the American Institute of Polish Culture of Miami, Florida.

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