Career
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Poet, critic, essayist, novelist, and translator. Programmer with Polish National Radio, 1935-39; worked for Polish Resistance during World War II; cultural attache with Polish Embassy in Paris, France, 1946-50; freelance writer in Paris, 1951-60; University of California, Berkeley, visiting lecturer, 1960-61, professor of Slavic languages and literature, 1961-78, professor emeritus, beginning 1978.