biography
pronunciation:
[konviskee, tadayu
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| male
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| lived:
| (1929– )
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| biography:
| Dissident writer and film-maker, born in Lithuania. After fighting with guerrilla forces in Lithuania against both German and Russian occupation in World War 2, he moved to Poland, where he made his home, and began to write. His book, A Minor Apocalypse, was banned. In the 1950s, At the Construction Site was a much prized novel about the Party as an engineer of souls. He was denounced in 1968. A later book, Moonrise, Moonrise (1988), is about the early struggles of the Solidarity movement. His films include Salto and The Last Day. |
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