What is Tadeusz Borowski?
{{Infobox writer | name = Tadeusz Borowski | image = Tadeusz Borowski.jpg | imagesize = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1922|11|12|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Zhytomyr|Żytomierz]], [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Ukrainian SSR]], [[Soviet Union]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1951|7|3|1922|11|12|df=y}} | death_place = [[Warsaw]], [[Polish People's Republic|Poland]] | occupation = writer, journalist | nationality = Polish | period = | genre = poetry, short stories | subject = | movement = | notableworks = ''[[This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen]]'' | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | awards = National Literary Prize, Second Degree (Poland) | signature = | website = }} '''Tadeusz Borowski''' ({{IPA-pl|taˈdɛ.uʂ bɔˈrɔfskʲi}}; 12 November 1922 – 3 July 1951) was a Polish writer and [[journalist]]. He was known for writing poems about war and stories about his time as a prisoner at [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz]]. On July 3, 1951, at the age of 28, Borowski died by [[suicide]]<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo/Borowski-Tadeusz;3879730.html|title=Borowski Tadeusz|work=Encyklopedia PWN|language=pl}}</ref> by inhaling gas from a gas stove. His wife had given birth to their daughter, Małgorzata, a few days before his death.<ref name=intro>{{cite book|contributor-last=Kott |contributor-first=Jan |contributor-link=Jan Kott |last=Borowski|first=Tadeusz|editor1-first=Barbara|editor1-last=Vedder|contribution=Introduction|title=This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen|url=https://archive.org/details/thiswayforgaslad00bororich|url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/thiswayforgaslad00bororich/page/20 20] |access-date=August 28, 2009|year=1976|publisher=Penguin Classics|isbn=978-0-14-018624-6}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Borowski, Tadeusz}} [[Category:1922 births]] [[Category:1951 deaths]] [[Category:Polish Jews]] [[Category:Polish journalists]] [[Category:Writers from