Piotr Guzy

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Piotr Guzy (born May 15, 1922 in Zawadzkie , Poland , † February 24, 2018 in Spain ) was a Polish writer .

Life

Piotr Guzy went to school in Tarnowitz and is the son of a Silesian insurgent . He himself fought against the Wehrmacht in 1939 . After internment in Romania , he managed to escape to France . There he joined the army of Władysław Sikorski . Before he was seriously wounded, he fought in Stanisław Maczek's armored division , mainly in Belgium and the Netherlands . After the end of the Second World War he studied political economy and philosophy in London and started a family there too. In 1949, however, Guzy returned to Poland with his wife and son and completed his studies with a master's degree in economics in Poznan . He then worked until 1957 as an editor for the weekly newspaper Tygodnik Zachodni .

Increasingly under observation by the Polish State Security Service , he decided to flee to Great Britain via West Berlin . There Guzy first worked for the BBC and later, after moving to Germany, in the Munich branch of Radio Free Europe . In 1979 he finally moved to Spain .

Works (selection)

  • The next leaves at 22.25 , Berlin: Verlag Neues Leben, 1957
  • Short curriculum vitae of a positive hero , Frankfurt am Main: Verlag S. Fischer, 1968

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zmarł Piotr Guzy , accessed on May 7, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Guzy, Piotr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Zawadzkie
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 2018
Place of death Spain