Background
Son of Jadwiga and Kazimierz Szymanowicz, was born on September 3, 1946, in Wrocław (Poland). His mother was from Polish aristocracy, his father was of Jewish descent.
Son of Jadwiga and Kazimierz Szymanowicz, was born on September 3, 1946, in Wrocław (Poland). His mother was from Polish aristocracy, his father was of Jewish descent.
Szymanowicz died in Warsaw, at the age of twenty and a half years, on March 4, 1967. However not a single poem by him was published while he was alive. Many of his poems have survived, and were published posthumously, mainly due to the tireless efforts of his mother.