He studied foreign trade in Vienna, and was a member of the Communist Party of Western Ukraine.
In 1968, he was arrested in the Polish political crisis because of his Jewish descent.
In 1969, he emigrated to Sweden, where he edited translations of Polish literature.
The publishing house is a well known for its four Nobel prize winners (Isaac Bashevis Singer, Czeslaw Milosz, Octavio Paz and J M Coetzee) and for a number of international and Swedish authors, like Ian McEwan, Jonathan Franzen, Umberto Eco, Patti Smith, Oliver Sacks, Susan Sontag, Majgull Axelsson, Karin Alvtegen and Linda Olsson.
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