{{Short description|Polish poet, writer, translator, and film critic (1927–1996)}} {{Expand language|langcode=pl|name=Wiktor Woroszylski|topic=struct|date=May 2026}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2026}} {{Infobox person |name = Wiktor Woroszylski |image = |image_size = |caption = |birth_date = {{Birth date|1927|06|08|df=y}} |birth_place = Grodno |death_date = {{Death date and age|1996|09|13|1927|06|08|df=y}} |death_place = Warsaw |citizenship = Polish |other_names = |education = |alma_mater = |employer = |occupation = Poet, writer, translator, film critic |title = |spouse = |partner = |children = |parents = |signature = |footnotes = |years_active = }}
'''Wiktor Woroszylski''' (8 June 1927 — 13 September 1996) was a poet, writer, translator and film critic.<ref name="culturepl">{{cite web| url = https://culture.pl/pl/tworca/wiktor-woroszylski| publisher = culture.pl| accessdate = 2025-12-17| title = Wiktor Woroszylski}}</ref><ref name="encysol">{{cite web| url = https://encysol.pl/es/encyklopedia/biogramy/19511,Woroszylski-Wiktor.html| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240603043811/https://encysol.pl/es/encyklopedia/biogramy/19511,Woroszylski-Wiktor.html| archive-date = 2024-06-03| publisher = encysol.pl| title = Woroszylski Wiktor}}</ref><ref name="ibl">{{cite web| url = https://pisarzeibadacze.ibl.edu.pl/haslo/3828/woroszylski-wiktor| title = Woroszylski Wiktor| publisher = pisarzeibadacze.ibl.edu.pl| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20250328101014/https://pisarzeibadacze.ibl.edu.pl/haslo/3828/woroszylski-wiktor| archive-date = 2025-03-28| accessdate = 2025-12-25| last = Głębicka| first = Ewa}}</ref>
== Biography == He was the son of Grzegorz Woroszylski, a physician, and Barbara née Grodzieńczyk.<ref name="ibl" /> He attended high school in Grodno, where he stayed until the outbreak of World War II.<ref name="ibl" /> During the Nazi occupation, he hid as an apprentice with a shoemaker.<ref name="ibl" /> From November 1941, he was in the ghetto, from which he escaped.<ref name="ibl" /> He worked odd jobs in a carpentry shop and on the farm.<ref name="ibl" /> In March 1945, he came to Łódź as part of the repatriation operation.<ref name="ibl" />
He made his debut with the poem ''Przed Berlinem'' (''Before Berlin''), published in ''Głos Ludu'', the journal of the Polish Workers' Party (25 April 1945),<ref name="ibl" /> after which he started working as a reporter for ''Głos Ludu''.<ref name="ibl" /> Also in 1945 he joined Polish Workers' Party.<ref name="ibl" /> After passing matura, he studied medicine for a year, and in 1946 he began studying Polish philology at the University of Łódź.<ref name="ibl" />
In 1949 he became a member of the Polish Writers' Union and traveled to the Soviet Union, including Siberia.<ref name="ibl" /> In the years 1952—1956 he studied at the Moscow Institute of Literature.<ref name="ibl" />
== Prose == * 1956 ''Dziennik węgierski'' * 1958 ''Okrutna gwiazda'' (short stories) * 1960 ''{{ill|I ty zostaniesz Indianinem|pl|I ty zostaniesz Indianinem (powieść)}}'' * 1962 ''Cyryl, gdzie jesteś?'' (novel for youth) * 1963 ''Sny pod śniegiem. Opowieść o życiu Sałtykowa-Szczedrina'' (biographical story) * 1965 ''Podmuch malowanego wiatru'' (novel for youth) * 1973 ''{{ill|Mniejszy szuka Dużego|pl|Mniejszy szuka Dużego (powieść)}}'' * 1973 ''Życie Sergiusza Jesienina'' (co-authored with {{ill|Elwira Watała|pl|Elwira Watała}}) * 1977 ''Literatura'' (novel) * 1983 ''Don Kichot'' * 1983 ''Kto zabił Puszkina?'' (biography) * 2022 ''Historie i inne opowiadania'' (short stories, reedition of the 1987 book)
== Poetry == * 1949 ''Czuwającym w noc noworoczną'' * 1949 ''Śmierci nie ma'' * 1951 ''Wiosna sześciolatki'' (with Andrzej Mandalian and Andrzej Braun) * 1955 ''Z rozmów'' * Poem ''Świt nad Nową Hutą'' * 1960 ''Wanderjahre'' * 1962 ''Twój powszedni morderca'' * 1964 ''Niezgoda na ukłon'' * 1969 ''Przygoda w Babilonie'' * 1970 ''Zagłada gatunków'' * 1974 ''Wybór wierszy'' * 1982 ''Jesteś i inne wiersze'' * 1983 ''Lustro'' * 1983 ''Dziennik internowania''
== Other works == * ''Moi Moskale'' (translation of a selection of poems by Russian poets) * ''Życie Majakowskiego'' (biography) — In English as ''The Life of Mayakovsky''. New York: The Orion Press, 1970 * ''Marsz Sportowy'' (translation of Isaac Dunajewski's songs) * ''Pozwólcie nam się cieszyć'' (selection of journalism) * ''Dzienniki''. Tom I–III, Ośrodek KARTA, Warszawa 2017–2019 (journals) * ''Dużo śmiechu, trochę smutku to historia o mamutku'' (book for children illustrated by Józef Wilkoń, Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza „Czytelnik”, Warszawa 1961; Wytwórnia, Warszawa 2008)
== Film adaptations == His novels ''I ty zostaniesz Indianinem'' and ''Mniejszy szuka Dużego'' were made into films.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php?film=122122| title = I ty zostaniesz Indianinem| accessdate = 2025-12-17| publisher = filmpolski.pl}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = https://filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php?film=12225| title = Mniejszy szuka dużego| publisher = filmpolski.pl| accessdate = 2025-12-17}}</ref>
== Distinctions and awards == * {{ill|State Artistic Award|pl|Odznaka Nagrody Państwowej}}, 3rd class, on the occasion of the 22nd of July holiday, for the poem ''O Generale Świerczewskim'' and the volume of poems entitled ''Śmierci nie ma'' (''There is no Death'') (1950)<ref>{{cite journal| title = Przyznanie Państwowych Nagród Naukowych i Artystycznych| journal = Nowa Kultura| volume = 19| pages = 1| date = 1950-08-06| place = Warszawa| publisher = Związek Literatów Polskich| url = https://pbc.gda.pl/Content/97842/Nr_019.pdf}}</ref> * Medal of the 10th Anniversary of People's Poland (19 January 1955)<ref>{{cite web| url = https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WMP19551011400| title = M.P. 1955 nr 101 poz. 1400| publisher = isap.sejm.gov.pl| accessdate = 2025-12-17}}</ref> * Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (11 July 1955)<ref>{{cite web| url = https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WMP19550911144| title = M.P. 1955 nr 91 poz. 1144| publisher = isap.sejm.gov.pl| accessdate = 2025-12-17}}</ref> * Kościelski Award (1965)<ref name="culturepl" />
== References == {{Reflist}}
== Bibliography == * {{cite book| title = Woroszylski. Wieczór wspomnień| others = Iwona Smolka (edited by)| publisher = Baran i Suszczyński| place = Kraków| year = 1997}} * {{cite journal| first = Elżbieta| last = Sawicka| title = Ułożyć książkę, ułożyć życie. Wiktor Woroszylski (1927–1996)| journal = Rzeczpospolita| volume = 216| year = 1996}}
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