Tymoteusz Karpowicz Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Tymoteusz Karpowicz Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Tymoteusz Karpowicz (born December 15, 1921 in Zielona near Vilnius,

died June 29, 2005[1] in Oak Park near Chicago) was a leading Polish

language poet and playwright.[2][3]Born in the village of Zielona,

near Vilnius, Karpowicz lived there until the outbreak of World War II

in 1939. Karpowicz debuted as a journalist in 1941 under the pseudonym

Tadeusz Lirmian for the Vilnius-based newspaper Prawda Wileńska.

During the Nazi occupation of Vilnius he was a member of the Polish

underground resistance movement. When the war came to an end in 1945,

Karpowicz was resettled to Szczecin where he worked for Polish Radio.

It was here Karpowicz published his first prose piece titled "Legendy

pomorskie" (Pomeranian Legends).Karpowicz moved to Wrocław studied

Polish philology at Wroclaw University where he received his M.A. and

Ph.D. and became an assistant professor. He later received the

Literary Prize of the City of Wroclaw in 1958.In 1971, Karpowicz

received the prestigious fellowship of the "Foundation pour une

Entraide Intellectuelle Europeenne" in Paris. Two years later in 1973

he was invited to join International Working Program at the University

of Iowa. In 1974, he was appointed visiting associate professor of

Polish literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago,[4] where

he taught for two years. Although he has never received any official

literary awards in Poland because of his stance as a political

dissident, he was awarded the prestigious Alfred Jurzykowski Prize in

New York City and was twice a recipient of the Illinois Arts Council

Annual Award.[5]
Tymoteusz Karpowicz Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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