Lucjan Wolanowski

Who was Lucjan Wolanowski?

Lucjan Wilhelm Wolanowski, pseudonyms: Wilk; Waldemar Mruczkowski; W. Lucjański;; lu; Lu;; WOL., Polish journalist, writer and traveller.

Born into an intellectual family. Son of Henryk Kon and Róża Wolanowska, the great-grandson of Majer Wolanowski, the well-known Polish manufacturer. His sister, Elżbieta Wassongowa was a Polish translator and book editor.

Wolanowski studied chemistry at the Grenoble Polytechnical Institute, but the outbreak of World War II caught him during a vacation in his homeland. During the World War II he fought as a soldier of the Polish clandestine resistance movement Home Army and he acted as literary contributor to the Polish underground press.

After the war he worked with the Polish Press Agency, he was a commentator from various conferences for journalists in the Foreign Secretary in Warsaw. In this period he met such famous people as Edward R. Murrow, Sydney Gruson, Flora Lewis, Larry Allen, Vicent Buist or Pierre Marechal, who were correspondents in Poland then. He worked as a journalist at the weekly magazine Przekrój; the illustrated weekly Świat; the magazine Dookoła świata and with the magazine Magazyn Polski.