Jan Stanisław Skorupski

Jan Stanisław Skorupski (born July 18, 1938 in Łoszniów, Podolia)is a Polish writer, poet, essayist and esperantist.

Life

Skorupski is an internationally recognized poet. He exercised amultiplicity of other activities, like being a director of an art gallery anda theatre and a joint founder of the international group of artists'nula horo' and the Esperanto PEN Center. Further he was active as acaptain, commercial artist, photoreporter and jewelrymanufacturer, as well as in the mining industry. [ [http://www.muzeum-polskie.org/kalendarium/archiwum_calend/2006/info_skorupski_de.htm Info: Witold Czajkowski - Jan Stanislaw Skorupski - Helmut Vogel ] ] He is an authorof several books and published poetry and music CDs. He appeared innumerous radio shows. His texts were published in German, Polish and
Esperanto. In 1956 Skorupski received the Young Poet Award in Warsaw.He is a Swiss citizen and lives in Zurich.

Selected works

* Jan Stanislaw Skorupski: Cisza, Ty i ja, Warsaw 1956.
* Jan Stanislaw Skorupski: …um unsere Würde zu wahren, Galerie sztuka polska, Berlin 1982.
* Jan Stanislaw Skorupski: do, ut, des. Gedichte von Kunst und Liebe. Verlag Polonia, Warsaw 1988.
* Jan Stanislaw Skorupski: …um die Polen zu verstehen. Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verl., Berlin 1991.
* SONETADO 8784 sonnets. editio L., Zurich (1995-2006)

Entry in Guinness Book of Records

In 1998, Jan Stanislaw Skorupski was featured in the German Edition of The Guinness Book of Records as an author of the most sonnets (page 145):"Zurich (CH) based polish writer Jan Stanislaw Skorupski is the author of the most sonnets: He wrote 2928 poems in the time of January 1^st, 1995 till June 12^th, 1997 in two languages, Polish and Esperanto respectively."

References

External links

* [http://www.skorupski.com/deutsch.php Homepage von Jan Stanisław Skorupski]
* [http://lexikon.a-d-s.ch/edit/detail_a.php?id_autor=1700 Entry about JSS in Lexicon of Authors of Association of Authors of Switzerland]

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