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About Janusz Minkiewicz
- Janusz Minkiewicz (born June 25, 1914 in St.
- Petersburg – May 29, 1981 in Warsaw) was a Polish writer, translator, journalist and satirist.
- Born in St.
- Petersburg, he graduated from the faculty of philosophy of the Warsaw University.
- Active in various journals, he was considered one of the heirs to the Skamander group of poets.
- In 1939 he fled Nazi-occupied part of Poland to Vilna, then under Lithuanian occupation, where in 1940 (after the Soviet take-over of the city) he ran a satirical theatre, as well as the "Ksantypa" cabaret in Bialy Sztral cafe.
- Following the German take-over of the city in 1941 he moved back to Warsaw, where he collaborated with numerous officially-approved theatres.
- After the war he became a noted translator of literature, mostly Russian.
- He collaborated with satiric journals Szpilki, Przekrój and Cyrulik Warszawski.
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