Wilhelm poet

Wilhelm Dichter, 2011

Wilhelm Dichter (born October 25, 1935 in Boryslaw ) is a Polish writer who emigrated to the USA .

Life

The poet's father died during the war. He himself lived with his mother first in southern Poland and later, from 1944, in Warsaw and became a physicist and engineer. After completing his doctorate at the Warsaw Polytechnic , he worked for thirteen years as a scientist and wrote popular science works and radio plays until the anti-Semitic campaign in Poland in 1968 forced him to emigrate, first to Vienna and Rome , then to the USA, where he worked in the IT industry worked. For his popular scientific work, including portraits of the great physicists of the twentieth century, he received the Bruno Winawer Prize in Poland . It wasn't until his late 60s that he began to write fiction. Central themes of his humanistic works are anti-Semitism in Poland , during the Second World War and afterwards. He lives with his Polish-speaking family in Tewksbury , near Boston .

Works

• Koń Pana Boga , Krakow 1996
  • The horse of God . Translated by Martin Pollack . Rowohlt, Berlin 1998
• Szkoła bezbożników , Kraków 1999
  • Rosenthal's legacy . Translated by Martin Pollack . Rowohlt, Berlin 2000
• Lekcja angielskiego , Krakow 2010

Nominations

• 1997: Nike Literature Prize for Koń Pana Boga
• 2000: Nike Literature Prize for Szkoła bezbożników

Web links

• Wilhelm poet. In: culture.pl . May 2003, accessed September 16, 2018 (Polish). 
• Literature by and about Wilhelm Dichter in the catalog of the German National Library