Bruno Schulz

Bruno Schulz, perhaps the most significant interwar author in Poland, was born in 1892 in Drohobych, Galicia. He spent almost his entire life in his hometown, apart from a few months in Lviv and Vienna and a brief trip to Paris, teaching art at the local high school. In 1934, his collection of expressionist short stories titled "The Cinnamon Shops" was published, establishing his reputation in literature. This was followed by "Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass" in 1937 and the novella "Comet" in the same year. He translated Kafka's "The Trial" into Polish and began writing a major novel titled "The Messiah," which was lost during the war, along with most of his drawings and correspondence. On November 19, 1942, he was killed in a pogrom launched by the German occupation authorities targeting the Jewish population of the city.