Jan Błoński [SEP] occupation
Jan Błoński
Jan Błoński (15 January 1931 – 10 February 2009) was a Polish historian, literary critic, publicist and translator. He was a leading representative of the Kraków school of literary criticism, regarded as one of the most influential critics of postwar Poland.
Professor of the Jagiellonian University, Błoński was habilitated there for the work entitled "Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński and the beginnings of the Polish Baroque." He was the literary editor for the publication of Witold Gombrowicz's collected works in 1986–88 through "Wydawnictwo Literackie"
. He was also the Fellow of Collegium Invisibile. In 1996–2001 he served as juror for the Nike Literary Award. In November 1995 he was awarded the Kraków Book of the Month Award for the collected works of Sławomir Mrożek, his long-time friend from the Stalinist period.
Biography.
Jan Błoński was born in Warsaw in 1931. During the occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany, he witnessed the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942 when some 300,000 Jews were sent to Treblinka and exterminated in a single classified operation