Leading writer and translator dies

Born in 1929 in Warsaw, he spent World War II studying classic literature. After the war he studied ancient philology and started to write for the Tygodnik Powszechy weekly. He translated into Polish writers such as Virgil, St. Augustine and Byron, but is best known as the author of the trilogy Mitologia Greków I Rzymian which became an outstanding bestseller. During the later period of his life he was working on translating the New Testament, but only managed to finish the St. Lucas Gospel. It will appear in May. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 10) A.F.