Wojciech Żukrowski

Wojciech Żukrowski (14 April 1916 in Kraków – 26 August 2000 in Warsaw) was a Polish prosaist, poet, reporter, essayist and literary critic.

[1]: 735 At the outbreak of World War II, he joined the Polish Army horse artillery.

[1]: 735 Stephanie Kraft, who translated his novel, Kamienne tablice (Stone Tablets), to English wrote that during the German occupation of Poland in World War II, Żukrowski worked at the Solvay limestone quarry alongside Karol Józef Wojtyła, who became Pope John Paul II.

The Polish censors initially blocked its publication, but their decision was overturned in person by Poland's head of state, Władysław Gomułka.

The public reaction to the book's criticisms of Stalinist abuses and its conceptual sympathy with the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 led to problems with its subsequent print runs.

In 1970, Czechoslovak government intervention prohibited public distribution of the first Czech translation print run.