Education
1927 graduate Philology Faculty, Krakow University.
1927 graduate Philology Faculty, Krakow University.
1921 first work published. Joined Polish socialist movement at an early age. From 1928 secondary-school teacher and ed of a children's magazine.
During 1930's contributed to Polish leftist newspapers and journals. Board member, Human and Civil Rights Defense League. 1939 moved to L’vov and assumed Soviet citizenship.
1939-1941 lit director, L’vov Polish Theater. During World War 2 political comissar. Southwestern Front, then colonel-propagandist, Main Polit Board, Soviet Army.
1943 led “League of Polish Patriots in the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics” and helped to form the Kosciuszko Division. 1944 deputy chairman, Polish National Liberation Committee. Simultaneously ed, Ukraine newspaper “Za Radyans’ku Ukrainu” and Polish newspaper “Free Poland”.
Also contributed to “Pravda”, “Izvestia” and “Krasnaya zvezda”. After World War 2 settled in Kiev. Member, World Peace Council.
Deputy, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Supreme Soviet of 1st—6th convocations. 1961 visited Cuba; Publ (in Polish): novels “Homeland” (1935). “Subjugated Land” (1938).
Trilogy “Canto on the Waters” (1940-1951). Novelettes: “The Day’s Countenance” (1934). “The Rainbow” (1942).
“Simply Love” (1944). “When the Light Goes On” (1947). “In Mortal Struggle” (1958).
Coauthor, libretto for the opera “Bogdan Khmel’nitskiy”. “Collected Works” (6 volume, 1954-1955).