Tymon Ateńczyk
Tymon of Athens

Summary/Abstract: Tymon Terlecki was a man of great moral rectitude and a versatile writer: a literature and theatre historian, essayist, critic writing about poetry, art, philosophy, culture, and socio-political matters, a sociologist and anthropologist. He was an esteemed university lecturer, radio theoretician, author of several dozen radio dramas and innumerable Free Europe Radio programmes. He translated T. S. Eliot, Mauriac, Valery, Thomas and Koestler (Ciemność w południe, Paris, 1949), edited numerous periodicals, literary texts, collective works, and monographs. He was a social and political activist, and ideologist of the emigration’s independence, to which he devoted numerous articles attempting to define the political and intellectual status of this group of castaways. He received numerous awards for his literary work, among which were: the Union of Polish Writers Abroad Award (London, 1953), from the Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation Prize (New York, 1973), the Testimonial Award of the Polish Arts and Letters (Chicago, 1971), the Stanisław Vincenz Award (Cracow, 1985), and the Literary Award of Kultura (Paris, 1995). He was a member of many scientific societies in Poland and abroad.

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