Parandowski, Jan (1895–1978)

Polish novelist, essayist, and translator. His novels include Niebo w plomieniach/Heaven in Flames 1936 – the story of a young man undergoing a religious crisis – and Dysk olimpijski/The Olympic Discus 1933. His principal interest was in classical Greece and Rome, but he also wrote fictionalized biographies of the medieval Italian poet Petrarch and the 19th-century dramatist Oscar Wilde.