Wiadomości (London magazine)

Grydzewski was a seasoned publicist having already begun as the editor of the monthly literary review Skamander in 1920s Poland, before founding and editing Wiadomości Literackie in 1924.

The modest circulation of 15,000, appealed mainly to the Polish intelligentsia and belied its profound cultural impact on the newly resurrected nation state.

[3] Its early contributors were heavily drawn from the Skamander literary group which numbered in its ranks people such as Julian Tuwim, Antoni Słonimski, Kazimierz Wierzyński, Jan Lechoń, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Józef Wittlin, Stanisław Baliński, Zuzanna Ginczanka.

[4] The editors-in-chief were: Mieczysław Grydzewski, (officially until his death in 1970, in practice until 1966, when he was partially paralysed after a stroke), Michał Chmielowiec until 1974, and Stefania Kossowska until 1981, who also contributed sketches under the pseudonym, "Big Ben".

Prize-winners began with Marek Hłasko, followed by archaeology professor Tadeusz Sulimirski, Witold Gombrowicz, Leopold Tyrmand, Czesław Miłosz and Włodzimierz Odojewski among others.