Career
He wrote psychological, social, moral and historical novels, dramas, stories, essays and journals. As a secretary of the Towarzystwo Uniwersytetów Robotniczych, he did organizing work for the workers" educational and theatrical movement. Then he was an activist of the Związek Młodzieży Wiejskiej Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej.
During the German occupation of Poland, he was active in the underground cultural movement.
In 1921, Zawieyski made his debut with poems (Strzępy) under the pseudonym Konar-Nowicki. In 1926, he graduated from the School of Drama in KrakóWest
From 1926 to 1928, he was an actor at the Reduta Theatre and editor of the magazine Teatr Ludowy. From 1929 to 1931, he was staying in France, where he worked as an instructor of Polonia amateur drama groups.
After returning to Poland, until 1939, he worked as the director of the Instytut Teatrów Ludowych (Institute for Folklore Theaters), actor and literary manager of the Ataneum Theatre.
After World World War II, Zawieyski worked as a lecturer at the Catholic University of Lublin (Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski, Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven (Catholic University of Louvain)). He co-founded the Klub Inteligencji Katolickiej, whose president he was until 1957. In 1949, he was awarded by the Polish episcopate.
Zawieyski was homosexual.
In 1933 he met Stanisław Trębaczkiewicz. They fell in love and lived together until Zawieyski"s tragic death in 1969.
Both, in accordance with their wishes, are buried in the same grave in Laski Cemetery near Warsaw.