Aleksander Wat, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Aleksander Wat

Polish poet

Date of Birth: 01-May-1900

Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 29-Jul-1967

Profession: writer, poet, translator, linguist

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Aleksander Wat was the pen name of Aleksander Chwat (1 May 1900 – 29 July 1967), a Polish poet, writer, art theoretician, memorist, and one of the precursors of the Polish futurism movement in the early 1920s, considered to be one of the more important Polish writers of the mid 20th century.
In 1959, he emigrated to France and in 1963 relocated to the United States, where he worked at the Center for Slavic and East European Studies of the University of California, Berkeley.