Jan Walc

Jan Walc (22 September 1948, Warsaw - 10 February 1993, Warsaw) was a Polish critic, literary historian, and journalist. He was the author of Feuilletons, reviews, reportage, and political and literary essays. A member of the democratic anti-communist opposition, the Workers Defense Committee (KOR), he was one of the organizers of the Independent Publishing House (NOWa), an underground publishing company and also operated the printing press. His works were published in Polityka, Kultura, Literatura na Świecie, Głos, ''Krytyka'', ''Biuletyn Informacyjny'', ''Kultura Niezależna'', ''Puls'', ''Zapis'', Życie Warszawy, and ''Wokanda''. He also wrote books on the works of Tadeusz Konwicki and Adam Mickiewicz.

He was born in Warsaw to a family of doctors, the son of Maria Róża Nowotna-Walcowa and Jan Stanisław Walc. Provided by Wikipedia