Palestine for the Third Time

About Ksawery Pruszyski

Ksawery Pruszyski (1907-1950) was a Polish journalist writer and diplomat. He was born in Volhynia (now Ukraine) into a landowning family who settled in Kraków after the Russian Revolution. After graduating with a law degree he started working as a journalist reporting from Gdask Mandate Palestine and the Spanish Civil War. During World War II he fought as a soldier (Narvik and Falaise) and worked as a diplomat in London and Moscow. After the war he joined Polands diplomatic corps first at the UN and later as ambassador to the Netherlands while still writing and publishing. He died in a car accident in Germany. He is now recognized as one of the founding fathers of the Polish school of reportage.Wiesiek Powaga was born in Poland. He settled in London after the imposition of martial law of 1981. After graduating with a degree in philosophy at Kings College London he worked as a carpenter translator correspondent for a music magazine and as senior editor for a UK publisher. He has translated fiction poetry and drama occasionally script-writing for radio and tv.