Edmund Niziurski
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Edmund Niziurski - (born July 10, 1925 in Kielce, Poland) - is a popular Polish writer, author of hundreds of humorous novels and stories for children, adolescents and adults, written with a specific kind of irony. Niziurski also is a sociologist and a lawyer.
[edit] Life
Niziurski was born into a middle class family, his father, Stanislaw, was a civil servant. He studied at the Jedrzej Sniadecki Middle School in Kielce, but did not complete education there because of German and Soviet attack on Poland. In September of 1939, together with family, he was evacuated to Hungary, but returned to the area of Kielce in 1940. During World War Two, he attended illegal high school in Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski, where he graduated in 1943. Niziurski spent the war in the village of Jeleniec, near Ostrowiec.
After the war, he studied law at Lublin Catholic University and Jagiellonian University, in late 1940s also took up sociology and journalism. In 1947 he completed legal studies, in the same year Niziurski got married with Zofia Barbara Kowalska. He lived in Kielce, then in Katowice and finally, in 1952, moved to Warsaw, where he has been living since then. He worked as a journalist for Wiez weekly, at the some time writing his own books. Niziurski is a member of Association of Polish Writers (Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy Polskich).
[edit] Career
Niziurski debuted in 1944 with a poem published in Biuletyn Informacyjny, a magazine issued by the Home Army. After the war, he cooperated with several magazines, such as Plomyk, Swiat Mlodych, also with the Polish Radio, for which he wrote kids’ shows. His stories in the course of the time became very popular among children and teenagers. Niziurski’s books are very dynamic, witty and humorous, but also with elements of sensation. He also wrote five novels for adult readers, but they are not so popular. In 1975 he was awarded the Order of the Smile.
[edit] The most famous novels
- Księga urwisów (The Book of the Brats), Iskry, Warsaw, 1954, it is on the list of compulsory books in Polish schools,
- Siódme wtajemniczenie (The seventh initiation),
- Sposób na Alcybiadesa (How To Get Alcibiades), Iskry, Warsaw 1964, also a movie Spona 1998
- Niewiarygodne przygody Marka Piegusa (Unbelievable adventures of Marek Piegus)
