Wilhelm Dichter
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Wilhelm Dichter is a Polish writer specializing in Poles of Jewish origin. He was born in 1935 in Boryslav (in modern day Ukraine), where he survived the war. Toward the end of 1944, he came to Poland. He finished his studies at the Warsaw Polytechnic, where he earned his doctorate and worked for 13 years. In 1968, he emigrated with his family to the United States. He is employed as a computer image processing specialist at the Linotype-Hell company. He lives in the Boston area.
In 1996, the author's literary debut, God's Horse (Polish: Koñ Pana Boga) was nominated for the Nike, Poland's top literary award. His second book, A School for the Ungodly (Szkola Bezboznikow) was also a finalist for the Nike Award.
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