About Sławomir Mrożek
Sławomir Tangolo Mrożek (Polish pronunciation: [swaˈvɔmir ˈmrɔʐɛk]; 29 June 1930 – 15 August 2013) was a Polish playwright. Mrożek joined the Polish United Workers' Party during the reign of Stalinism in the People's Republic of Poland, and made a living as a political journalist. He began writing plays in the late 1950s. His theatrical works belong to the genre of absurdist fiction, intended to shock the audience with non-realistic elements, political and historic references, distortion, and parody. In 1963 he emigrated to Italy and France, then further to Mexico. In 1996 he returned to Poland and settled in Kraków. In 2008 he moved back to France. He died in Nice at the age of 83. Mrożek's first play, The Police, was published in 1958. It became also Mrożek's most successful play, according to Britannica, produced in many Western countries.
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