Marian Pilot (6 December 1936 – 2 February 2024) was a Polish writer, poet, journalist and screenwriter.

Born on 6 December 1936, in the village of Siedlików, Greater Poland,[1] he attended the Marie Curie-Skłodowska High School No.

In 1967, he joined the Polish Writers' Union and between 1967 and 1978 he served as head of culture section of Tygodnik Kulturalny weekly.

In 2009, he was granted the title of Honorary Citizen of the town of Ostrzeszów and he won the Władysław Reymont Literary Prize.

[4] In 2022, he made his poetry debut by publishing Dzikie mięso (Wild Meat) which won 1st Prize at the Artur Fryz Literature Competition and for which he was nominated to the Angelus Award.