Jan Kott, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jan Kott

Polish writer

Date of Birth: 27-Oct-1914

Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 23-Dec-2001

Profession: writer, poet, translator, journalist, literary critic, literary historian, theatre critic

Nationality: United States, Poland

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Jan Kott (October 27, 1914 – December 23, 2001) was a Polish political activist, critic and theoretician of the theatre.
A leading proponent of Stalinism in Poland for nearly a decade after the Soviet takeover, Kott renounced his Communist Party membership in 1957 following the anti-Stalinist Polish October of 1956.
He defected to the United States in 1965.
He is regarded as having considerable influence upon Western productions of Shakespeare in the second half of the 20th century.