Bohdan Urbankowski (19 May 1943 – 15 June 2023) was a Polish writer, poet, and philosopher. An opposition activist in the People's Republic of Poland, he received several awards for his publications, most of which were published underground (''

bibuła Polish underground press, devoted to prohibited materials ( sl. pl, bibuła, lit. semitransparent blotting paper or, alternatively, pl, drugi obieg, lit. second circulation), has a long history of combatting censorship of oppressive regimes in ...

''). Urbankowski was the author of over 40 books, including many biographies including those of

Adam Mickiewicz Adam Bernard Mickiewicz (; 24 December 179826 November 1855) was a Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator and political activist. He is regarded as national poet in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. A principal figure in Polish Ro ...

Józef Piłsudski Józef Klemens Piłsudski (; 5 December 1867 – 12 May 1935) was a Polish statesman who served as the Naczelnik państwa, Chief of State (1918–1922) and Marshal of Poland, First Marshal of Second Polish Republic, Poland (from 1920). He was ...

and

John Paul II Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...

. Urbankowski died on 15 June 2023, at the age of 80.Nie żyje pisarz Bohdan Urbankowski. Poeta i dramaturg zmarł w wieku 80 lat

Selected works

*''Dostojewski - dramat humanizmów''. 1978 *''Czerwona msza, albo usmiech Stalina'' (''The Red Mass, or Stalin's Smile''). 1995, 2011 *''Józef Piłsudski: marzyciel i strateg'' (''Józef Piłsudski: Dreamer and Strategist''). 1997 *''Trzema drogami nadziei Opowieść o wędrówkach Karola Wojtyły''. 2002 *''Poeta, czyli człowiek zwielokrotniony. Szkice o Zbigniewie Herbercie''. 2004

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1943 births 2023 deaths 20th-century Polish poets 20th-century Polish philosophers 21st-century Polish philosophers 20th-century Polish dramatists and playwrights Polish male dramatists and playwrights Polish male poets 21st-century Polish poets 21st-century Polish dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Polish male writers 21st-century Polish male writers Recipients of the Silver Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis Recipient of the Meritorious Activist of Culture badge Writers from Warsaw {{Poland-poet-stub