| Birth Day | June 29, 1930 |
| Birth Place | Poland |
| Age | 90 YEARS OLD |
| Died On | Aug 15, 2013 (age 83) |
| Birth Sign | Cancer |
Polish dramatist who was a pioneer of absurdist fiction, he wrote the popular plays Tango, Emigranci, and The Elephant.
He graduated high school in 1949 and worked as a political hack-writer in the Polish magazine Przekrój.
He wrote a full-page article commending the death sentence of three Catholic Priests from Krakow, whom he compared to Ku-Klux-Klan members.
He and his wife defected to Italy in 1963.
He and Per Olov Enquist both won the Austrian State Prize for European Literature.
