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Bruno Schulz was a Polish Jewish writer and artist, regarded as one of the greatest Polish-language writers of all time. He was born and lived most of his life in the town of Drohobych, once part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and now part of Ukraine. He published two collections of short stories - Cinnamon Shops and The Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass - during his lifetime. Schulz was shot and killed by a German Gestapo officer in 1942, whilst walking home with a loaf of bread. Much of his writing, including his final, unfinished novel The Messiah, was lost in the Holocaust.
'One of the the great transmogrifiers of the world into words' - John Updike 'One of the most original imaginations in modern Europe' - Cynthia Ozick 'Schulz redrafts the lines between fantasy and reality' - Chris Power 'I read Schulz's stories and felt the gush of life' - David Grossman 'Bruno Schulz has this weird sense of humour, this tenderness and at the same time his writing is very complex. [Reading him for the first time] was something totally unique. That is still what I feel when I read him... a great writer' - Alejandro Zambra
