Zbigniew Nienacki, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Polish writer
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Place of Birth: Łódź, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland
About Zbigniew Nienacki
- Zbigniew Tomasz Nienacki (January 1, 1929 in Lódz – September 23, 1994 in Morag) was a pen name of Polish writer, Zbigniew Tomasz Nowicki. His works consist of adventure stories aimed at teenagers as well as adult novels.
- He achieved his greatest acclaim for his Pan Samochodzik series, a sequence of historical detective stories centering on a museum employee and his fantastic automobile (samochodzik means a little car in Polish).
- The works Uwodziciel, Raz w roku w Skirolawkach, Wielki Las, and Dagome Iudex contain erotic themes, especially erotic fantasies, that caused some controversy in Poland, especially Raz w roku w Skirolawkach was strongly criticised by the Communist Poland's media.
- Series Dagome Iudex is, outside erotica, is an attempt to weave Polish Piast history and Slavic, Norse and folk traditions into the historical adult novel, where main character is every bit like Machiavelli's Prince. Aside from being forcibly relocated during World War II and his brief studies in cinematography in Moscow, he spent most of his life until 1967 in Lódz.
- In 1967 he moved to Masuria (Polish: Mazury), a lake filled region in northeastern Poland, where he remained until his death.
- Mazury are sometimes the setting for Pan Samochodzik and feature in some of his other works.
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