Jerzy Putrament

Jerzy Putrament (14 November 1910 – 23 June 1986) was a Polish writer, poet, editor, publicist and politician.

His story is told, as the character " Gamma, slave of history", in a chapter of Czesław Miłosz's book The Captive Mind.

[3] In the People's Republic of Poland, he became a writer, publishing many works supporting the ideals of communism, and a politician.

He became an editor of two literary journals (Miesięcznik Literacki from 1966 to 1971 and Literatura from 1955 to 1968), and as such he had significant influence on Polish cultural policy.

[2] His first novel was Rzeczywistość (1947; "Reality") which draws on his experiences of the trial for communist activism in Poland before the war.