Jerzy Kosiński

Jerzy Kosiński

Jerzy Nikodem Kosiński , born Józef Lewinkopf, was a Polish-American novelist and two-time President of the American Chapter of P.E.N., who wrote primarily in English. For several decades, Kosinski was famous as a wit, a great raconteur, and a media celebrity. His first three novels were big hits. However, in June 22, 1982, "Jerzy Kosinski's Tainted Words," an article by Geoffrey Stokes and Eliot Fremont-Smith in The Village Voice, accused Jerzy Kosinski of plagiarism and dishonesty. 'The Painted Bird' was widely considered to be autobiographical; the Voice showed that this shocking tale about a brutalized childhood during the Jewish Holocaust was not after all about Jerzy, who actually lived rather comfortably during the war years. 'Being There', which was adapted as a successful film, was shown to have been plagiarized from an earlier Polish novel. Jerzy Kosinski appeared in two feature films a few documentaries and a large number of talk shows. His parents, Moses (Mojzesz) and Elzbieta (Liniecka) Lewinkopf, were well off, resourceful and cultured—though Elzbieta was an amateur musician, not a concert pianist as her son maintained, and Moses was a manager skilled in languages but not a professor of linguistics. The Lewinkopfs, secularized Jews, recognized the Nazi threat to their native Poland, and in late 1939 they acquired papers changing their last name to Kosinski and the father's first name to Mieczyslaw. Kosinski was their only biological child.

  • Teideal: Jerzy Kosiński
  • Coitianta: 2.691
  • Is eol do: Acting
  • Breithlá: 1933-06-14
  • Áit bhreithe: Lódz, Poland, Russian Empire [now Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland]
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  • Ar a dtugtar: Joseph Novak
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  • 1981
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    Reds

    Reds

    6.875 1981 HD

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  • 1989
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    A Fool and His Money

    A Fool and His Money

    4.538 1989 HD

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  • 1988
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    Lodz Ghetto

    Lodz Ghetto

    1 1988 HD

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  • 1995
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    Sex, Lies and Jerzy Kosinski

    Sex, Lies and Jerzy Kosinski

    2 1995 HD

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  • 1995
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    The Painted Boy

    The Painted Boy

    1 1995 HD

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  • 1985
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    The Statue of Liberty

    The Statue of Liberty

    6.7 1985 HD

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  • 1979
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    Being There

    Being There

    7.619 1979 HD

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  • 1979
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    Being There

    Being There

    7.619 1979 HD

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  • 2020
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    11 barev ptáčete

    11 barev ptáčete

    7 2020 HD

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  • 2019
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    Nabarvené ptáče

    Nabarvené ptáče

    7.1 2019 HD

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  • 1995
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    The Painted Boy

    The Painted Boy

    1 1995 HD

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  • 1962
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    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    7.4 1962 HD

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  • 1968
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    The Dick Cavett Show

    The Dick Cavett Show

    6.658 1968 HD

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