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Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

) - is a popular Polish writer, author of hundreds of humorous novels and stories for children, adolescents and adults, written with a specific kind of irony. Niziurski also is a sociologist and a lawyer.

Life

Niziurski was born into a middle class family, his father, Stanislaw, was a civil servant. He studied at the Jan Sniadecki

Jan Sniadecki

Jan Śniadecki was a Polish mathematician, philosopher and astronomer at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.-Life:Born in Żnin, Śniadecki studied at Kraków University and in Paris...

 Middle School in Kielce, but did not complete education there because of German and Soviet attack on Poland. In September 1939, together with family, he was evacuated to Hungary

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

, but returned to the area of Kielce in 1940. During World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

, he attended illegal high school in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski

Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski

Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski is a town in south-central Poland with 74,211 inhabitants .Main industry is metallurgy. Ostrowiec is the capital city of Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski County, part of Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship , previously it belonged to Kielce Voivodeship .- History:The oldest testimonies of...

, where he graduated in 1943. Niziurski spent the war in the village of Jeleniec, near Ostrowiec.

After the war, he studied law at Lublin Catholic University and Jagiellonian University

Jagiellonian University

The Jagiellonian University was established in 1364 by Casimir III the Great in Kazimierz . It is the oldest university in Poland, the second oldest university in Central Europe and one of the oldest universities in the world....

, in late 1940s also took up sociology and journalism. In 1947 he completed legal studies, in the same year Niziurski got married with Zofia Barbara Kowalska. He lived in Kielce, then in Katowice

Katowice

Katowice is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, on the Kłodnica and Rawa rivers . Katowice is located in the Silesian Highlands, about north of the Silesian Beskids and about southeast of the Sudetes Mountains.It is the central district of the Upper Silesian Metropolis, with a population of 2...

 and finally, in 1952, moved to Warsaw

Warsaw

Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

, where he has been living since then. He worked as a journalist for Wiez

WIEZ

WIEZ is a news/talk radio station broadcasting in Lewistown, Pennsylvania and serving State College, Pennsylvania.The daytime-only station operates a news/talk format featuring Joy Browne, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Dean Edell, and Steve Malzberg.-External links:*...

weekly, at the some time writing his own books. Niziurski is a member of Association of Polish Writers (Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy Polskich).

Career

Niziurski debuted in 1944 with a poem published in Biuletyn Informacyjny

Biuletyn Informacyjny

Biuletyn Informacyjny was a Polish weekly published covertly in occupied Poland during World War II.It was started in November 1939 in Warsaw as the main press release of the SZP, the first underground resistance organisation in Poland. Soon it was taken over by the Armia Krajowa and the Bureau of...

, a magazine issued by the Home Army. After the war, he cooperated with several magazines, such as Płomyk, Świat Młodych, also with the Polish Radio, for which he wrote kids’ shows. His stories in the course of the time became very popular among children and teenagers. Niziurski's books are very dynamic, witty and humorous, but also with elements of sensation. He also wrote five novels for adult readers, but they are not so popular. In 1975 he was awarded the Order of the Smile.

The most famous novels

• Księga urwisów (The Book of the Brats), Iskry, Warsaw, 1954, it is on the list of compulsory books in Polish schools,
• Siódme wtajemniczenie (The Seventh Initiation),
• Sposób na Alcybiadesa (How To Get Alcibiades
  Alcibiades
  Alcibiades, son of Clinias, from the deme of Scambonidae , was a prominent Athenian statesman, orator, and general. He was the last famous member of his mother's aristocratic family, the Alcmaeonidae, which fell from prominence after the Peloponnesian War...
  
  ), Iskry, Warsaw 1964, also a 1998 movie
• Niewiarygodne przygody Marka Piegusa (Unbelievable Adventures of Marek Piegus)