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Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
About Anatol Stern
- Anatol Stern (24 October 1899 in Warsaw – 19 October 1968 in Warsaw) was a Polish poet, writer and art critic.
- Born 24 October 1899 to an assimilated family of Jewish ancestry, Stern studied at the Polish Studies Faculty of the University of Wilno but did not graduate.
- Prominent among Polish futurist poets, between 1921 and 1923 he co-authored (together with Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz) the "Nowa Sztuka" (New Art) monthly.
- He also collaborated with other notable art magazines of the time, including the Skamander, Tadeusz Peiper's Zwrotnica and Wiadomosci literackie. With time he drifted away from avant-garde poetry and became a notable screenwriter.
- Prior to the outbreak of World War II, he authored more than 30 screenplays for both Polish and foreign films.
- After the Invasion of Poland he moved to Soviet-held Lwów, where he was arrested by the NKVD and sent to Soviet Gulag.
- Released after the Sikorski-Mayski Agreement, he joined the Polish Army and with it reached Palestine.
- There he made his living translating some of his pre-war works to Hebrew.
- In 1948 he returned to his home town, where he died 19 October 1968.
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