Julian Stryjkowski (born Pesach Stark; April 27, 1905 – August 8, 1996) was a Polish journalist and writer, known for his social prose and radical leftist leanings.

[1] Stryjkowski was born April 27, 1905, in Stryj (Austrian partition, modern Ukraine), to a family of Hasidic Jews.

After the end outbreak of Operation Barbarossa, through Tarnopol, Kiev and Stalingrad he escaped to Kuybyshev, where he tried to join the Polish II Corps.

On the insistence of Wanda Wasilewska, he was allowed by the Soviet authorities to come to Moscow, where he began working for the weekly Wolna Polska, the organ of Society of Polish Patriots, a communist and the Soviet-backed shadow government of Poland.

Upon his return to Poland he started working as the head of prose division of Twórczość, a weekly devoted to modern literature.