Artur Sandauer (14 December 1913 – 15 July 1989) was a Polish and Jewish literary critic, essayist, and professor at the University of Warsaw.

His series of publications from 1957 and then the book entitled Bez tarify leniowej were a turn of phrase that began the departure from the officially binding doctrine of socialist realism.

On August 23, 1980, he joined the appeal of 64 scholars, writers and publicists to the communist authorities to start a dialogue with striking workers[2].

Although he never belonged to the PZPR, after the introduction of martial law he accepted membership in the National Council of Culture, a state-led organization that supported General Wojciech Jaruzelski, and also became a member of the Polish Writers' Union reactivated by the authorities (since 1983).

Artur Sandauer, On the Situation of the Polish Writer of Jewish Descent in the Twentieth Century: It Is Not I Who Should Have Written This Study...Trans.