Grubiński, Wacław.

Wacław Grubiński, Polish short-story writer, novelist, playwright of the "Warsaw School," and theater critic, was born in Warsaw in 1883 and died in London in 1973. He wrote narrative prose such as Pocalunek ( The kiss, 1906), Czlowiek z klarnetem ( Man with a clarinet, 1927), and Listy pogańskie ( Pagan letters, 1938); produced and published over 10 one-act and full-length plays such as, Kochankowie ( Lovers, 1915), and Niewinna grzesznica ( The innocent sinner, 1926); and also wrote his memoirs about his deportation to the Soviet Union during World War II and his condemnation to death (later commuted to 10 years of imprisonment) for publishing a comedy about Lenin in 1921 Miedzy młotem a sierpem ( Between Hammer and Sickle, 1947).