Jerzy Kosinski, born Józef Nikodem Lewinkopf, was a Polish-born American writer and two-time president of the American chapter of PEN, who wrote primarily in English. Born in Poland to Jewish parents, he and his family survived World War II with the help of local people. He was born in 1933 and died in 1991. After mandatory military service and education under Poland's communist government, he emigrated to the United States and became a United States citizen. He was known for novels including Being There of 1971 and the controversial The Painted Bird of 1965, which were adapted as films in 1979 and 2019.
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was a Polish-born American writer and two-time president of the American chapter of PEN, who wrote primarily in English
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Jerzy Kosiński (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjɛʐɨ kɔˈɕij̃skʲi]; born Józef Nikodem Lewinkopf; June 14, 1933
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May 3, 1991) was a Polish-born American writer and two-time president of the American chapter of PEN, who wrote primarily in English. Born in Poland to Jewish parents, he and his family survived World War II with the help of
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Author: Jerzy Kosinski
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The Painted Bird is a 1965 novel by Jerzy Kosiński that describes World War II as seen by a boy, considered a "Gypsy or Jewish stray," wandering about small villages scattered around an unspecified country in Central or Eastern Europe (usually assumed to be Poland).
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