Stanisław Srokowski (writer)

Stanisław Srokowski (born 29 June 1936 in Hnilcze) is a Polish writer, poet, dramatist, literary critic, translator, academic teacher and publicist.

He was subsequently expelled from the Higher School of Diplomatic Service on the grounds of his church attendance and the refusal to join the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR), the Communist party which governed the Polish People's Republic.

After the 1968 Polish political crisis, known as the March events, he was forced to leave his post as a teacher.

[6] He is known for his short story Nienawiść (Hatred, 2006) as well as novels Ukraiński kochanek (Ukrainian Lover, 2008) and Zdrada (Betrayal, 2009) in which he deals with the subject of the Volhynian Genocide perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists on the Polish population of Volhynia in 1943.

In 2016, Polish filmmaker Wojciech Smarzowski directed an award-winning film Volhynia[7] based on Srokowski's 2006 short story Hatred.