(ANSA) - WARSAW - In Poland, 2019 will be the year of the
remembrance of Gustaw Herling Grudzinski (1919 - 2000), renowned
Polish writer and essayist, former prisoner of a Soviet Gulag,
who in the post-war period (since 1955) had been living in
Naples, where he married Lidia Croce. The parliament in Warsaw
made this decision, urging the country's cultural institutions
to remember Herling's life and works, in conjunction with the
centenary of his birth, May 20, 2019. "His book 'Inny swiat' (A
world apart) was the first of its kind in world literature
giving evidence of the martyrdom of the Soviet camp prisoners,
which the author experienced when he was thirty years old", the
Polish MPs wrote, also recalling Herling's deep regret because a
part of the European intellectuals had criticised him for years.
(ANSA).
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