Wilhelm Dichter

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Wilhelm Dichter
Wilhelm Dichter in 2011
Wilhelm Dichter in 2011
Born (1935-10-25) October 25, 1935 (age 88)
Borysław, Second Polish Republic
(present day Ukraine)
OccupationNovelist
NationalityPolish
CitizenshipAmerican

Wilhelm Dichter (born 25 October 1935) is a

Polish American
writer and the author of three novels based on his life.

Biography

Dichter was born in 1935 in

R&D
division and later in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1978, he became an image processing algorithm design specialist at the Linotype-Hell company. He and his wife Olga live in the Boston area.

Works

In 1996, the author's literary debut, God's Horse (

Holocaust. The book is written without sentimentality and from the perspective of the child that he was at the time. It is simple and concise, and its literary style has been likened to that of Ernest Hemingway
. The book soon became required reading for high school students in Poland.

Dichter's second book, The Atheists' School (Szkoła Bezbożników), published in 2000, follows the author's life after the war in the newly established

Communist
Poland. It is a story of the coming of age of a young man in a culture that promises a bright new future. We follow as he experiences his life in an elite, secular high school, falls in love and is conflicted with adopting a life ideology. It was also a finalist for the Nike Award.

In 2012, both novels, God's Horse and The Atheists' School, were published in English for the first time, translated by Madeline Levine, professor emeritus from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

His third book, Learning English (Polish: Lekcja Angielskiego) begins with the chaos of emigration from Poland and tells of the creation of and adjustment to a new life for him and his family in the United States. It was released in Poland to critical acclaim in the second half of 2010. The translation of this book is currently under way.[2]

Dichter's books, particularly the first two, have been translated into Russian, French, Czech, German, Swedish, and Dutch.

He also wrote "The Island of Physics", which has not been translated.

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ Sobolewska, Justyna (31 January 2000), Book Review: School of the Godless, vol. 2, Central Europe Review
  2. ^ Nowacki, Dariusz (16 July 2010), Book Review: English Lessons, Gazeta Wyborcza

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