Author: Grynberg, Henryk
Title: Pomnik nad Potomakiem
Description: Londyn, Oficyna Poetów i Malarzy, 1989. orig.wrappers. 22x13cm, 66 pp. Signed by author - a barely legible scrawl - on half-title. Some minor rubbing and light cover soil. VG. ¶ Text entirely in Polish. ["Henryk Grynberg (born in 1936 in Warsaw) is a Polish-Jewish writer and actor who survived the Nazi occupation. He was an award-winning novelist, short-story writer, poet, playwright and essayist who had authored more than thirty books of prose and poetry and two dramas.Grynberg, known as the “chronicler of the fate of the Polish Jews”, tackled in his writings the Holocaust experience and the post-Holocaust trauma....In 1959, Grynberg graduated from Warsaw University with a master’s degree in journalism. As an actor, Grynberg had connections with the Jewish State Theater company in Warsaw. It was during this time when he started publishing prose and poetry. While the Jewish State Theater company was on tour in the United States in late 1967, he refused to return to Poland. This defection was an act of protest against the communist regime's anti-Jewish propaganda, and against the censorship of his writings.In 1971, after two years of attending graduate studies at UCLA, Grynberg received an M.A. in Russian Literature and moved to Washington, D.C. where Grynberg worked for the U.S. Information Agency ( particularly for Voice in America) for a period of twenty years. Grynberg published his first story in 1959, which was later included in his debut collection, The Antigone Crew in 1963. His works - both while in Poland and in the United States – Grynberg narrated the stories of “those who died during the war and of those who survived to live afterwards in Lodz, Warsaw, or New York, struggling to come to terms with their own memory and

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