Kazimierz Brandys

Kazimierz Brandys (27 October 1916 – 11 March 2000) was a Polish essayist and writer of film scripts.

He was the brother of the writer Marian Brandys and husband of the translator Maria Zenowicz [pl].

He was first published in 1935 as a theatre critic, in the literary monthly Kuźnia Młodych [pl] (Anvil of Youth).

His literary career took off with the publication of his account of the two Warsaw uprisings during World War II.

[1] From 1956 onwards he was the spokesman for the Polish communist party's programme of "renewal" and "moral cleansing".