Adam Bromberg (12 March 1912 at
Lublin
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, then
Russian Empire
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– 23 March 1993 at
Stockholm
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, Sweden) was a Polish publisher.
He studied foreign trade in
Vienna
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, and was a member of the
Communist Party of Western Ukraine. In 1934, he was arrested and sentenced to 3.5 years of political prison. From 1939 to 1941, he worked as an editor in
Lviv
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. He became a soldier of the Soviet Army in 1941, and a soldier of the
Polish 1st Tadeusz Kościuszko Infantry Division in 1943. He was named deputy director of "Książka" Editors in 1946 and Director of the
State Scientific Publishers in 1953.
In 1968, he was arrested in the
Polish political crisis because of his Jewish descent. In 1969, he emigrated to
Sweden
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, where he edited translations of Polish literature.
In 1975, he founded the Swedish publishing company Brombergs förlag together with his daughter Dorotea Bromberg. The publishing house is a well known for its four Nobel prize winners (
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer ( yi, יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער; November 11, 1903 – July 24, 1991) was a Polish-born American Jewish writer who wrote and published first in Yiddish and later translated himself into English with the help ...
,
Czeslaw Milosz,
Octavio Paz and
J M Coetzee
John Maxwell Coetzee OMG (born 9 February 1940) is a South African–Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in t ...
) and for a number of international and Swedish authors, like Ian McEwan, Jonathan Franzen, Umberto Eco, Patti Smith, Oliver Sacks, Susan Sontag, Majgull Axelsson, Karin Alvtegen and Linda Olsson.
Polish encyclopedists
Polish publishers (people)
20th-century Swedish businesspeople
Swedish Jews
1912 births
1993 deaths
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