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Place of Birth: Gmina Przeciszów, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
About Ignacy Fik
- Ignacy Fik (4 April 1904 – 26 November 1942) was a Polish poet, essayist, literary critic and political activist.
- He was the father of the theatre historian Marta Fik. Born in Przeciszów, he attended high school in Wadowice and then studied Polish literature at Jagiellonian University and Jan Kazimierz University.
- Imprisoned for several months in 1925 for his political activities, he worked mostly as a teacher, while contributing literary criticism to leftist magazines such as Nasz Wyraz and Sygnaly. He was the author of several books of poetry, including Klamstwa lustracode: pol promoted to code: pl (1931) and Plakaty na murzecode: pol promoted to code: pl (1936), of essays such as "Uwagi nad jezykiem Cypriana Norwida"code: pol promoted to code: pl ("Notes on the language of Cyprian Norwid", 1930), and of the critical survey Dwadziescia lat literatury polskiejcode: pol promoted to code: pl ("Twenty years of Polish literature", 1939).
- His outlook was Marxist and in the essay "Literatura choromaniaków"code: pol promoted to code: pl (1935) he condemned the work of Bruno Schulz and Witold Gombrowicz as degenerate. Upon the German invasion he founded the Communist group "R" (Rewolucja)code: pol promoted to code: pl with his wife Helena Moskwianka and edited underground magazines.
- He was arrested by the Gestapo in October 1942, and shot in a mass execution at Kraków.
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