Jerzy Andrzejewski
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Jerzy Andrzejewski (August 19, 1909, Warsaw, Poland - April 19, 1983, Warsaw) was a prolific Polish author. In 1976 he was one of the founding members of the intellectual opposition group KOR (Workers' Defence Committee). On 23 September 2006, he was posthumously given the rank of Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
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- Unavoidable Roads (1936, a collection of short stories)
- Mode of the Heart (1938, first novel, winner of award from the Polish Academy of Literature)
- The Inquisitors
- Ashes and Diamonds (1948, and the film version won the International Critics' Prize at the 1959 Venice Film Festival)
- An Effective War
- Gates to Paradise A book notable for being written in one long sentence, sans almost any punctuation.
- A Sitter for a Satyr (published in the United Kingdom as He Cometh Leaping upon the Mountain)
