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The columns of Forum introduce the literary profile of Janusz Glowacki, a Polish writer, living first in Warsaw, and now, for the last twenty-one years, in New York. Here is a fragment of the text in which he jokingly writes about his literary beginnings:

“…For a long time I dictated to my mother everything I wrote, using a ball pen, and so she was the first person who read and judged. A variety of good wishing acquaintances knew my mother was an editor in a publishing company, so they talked and assumed that it was impossible for me to write this stuff, since I am a playboy, who walks the streets of Warsaw’s New World in a shirt open down to my belt. And they swore it was my mother’s work, not mine, she did everything for me. Only when I started to write some “dirty” stuff they hesitated, because Mrs. Glowacka would not write this…”
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