Mirosław Żuławski (16 January 1913 – 17 February 1995) was a Polish writer, prosaist, diplomat and screenwriter. He was father of film director, Andrzej Żuławski.
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Biography
Mirosław Żuławski was born in Nisko. He graduated in law and diplomatist studies from Lviv University (then John Casimir University in the Second Polish Republic). His career as a poet began in Sygnały magazine in 1934. During World War II he was a soldier of Związek Walki Zbrojnej, and then Armia Krajowa. In AK Żuławski operated in cultural underground and also wrote newsletters. During the years of 1944 and 1945 he was a war correspondent. After that he became as an editor-in-chief's assistant of Rzeczpospolita newspaper.
In 1945–1952 and 1957–1978 Żuławski worked in diplomacy as a permanent deputy of Poland in UNESCO in Paris. He was an ambassador of People's Republic of Poland (PRL) in Senegal and Mali. He was an editor of Przegląd Kulturalny weekly magazine from 1952 to 1957. Through the 1990s Żuławski published feuilletons in Twój Styl.
He died in 1995 in Warsaw.
Honours
Order of Polonia Restituta, Third Class
Order of Polonia Restituta, Fourth Class
Order of the Cross of Grunwald, Third Class (1946)
Legion of Honour, Fourth Class
National Order of Merit, Third Class
Labor Order, First Class
National Order of the Lion
Notable works
Ostatnia Europa, stories, 1947
Trzy miniatury, 1947
Rzeka Czerwona, novel, 1953
Portret wroga, 1954
Opowieść atlantycka, 1954
Drzazgi bambusa, 1956
Psia gwiazda, 1965
Opowieści mojej żony, 1970
Pisane nocą, feuilletons, 1973 (extended edition in 1976)
Album domowe, 1997
Ucieczka do Afryki, memories, 1983–1989
Screenplays
Autobus odjeżdża 6.20 (a.k.a. The Bus Leaves at 6.20), script consultation, 1954
Opowieść atlantycka (a.k.a. The Atlantic Tale), based on his own story, 1955
Pieśń triumfującej miłości (a.k.a. The Story of Triumphant Love), 1967
Pavoncello, 1967
Trzecia część nocy (a.k.a. The Third Part of the Night), 1971