# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gustaw-herling-grudzinski
# Generated: 2026-08-31T20:28:33.098Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/gustaw-herling-grudzinski"
name: "Gustaw Herling-Grudziński"
slug: "gustaw-herling-grudzinski"
description: "Gustaw Herling-Grudziński was a Polish writer, journalist, essayist, World War II underground fighter, and political dissident abroad during the period of Soviet and communist rule. He is best known for writing a personal account of life in the Soviet Gulag entitled A World Apart, first published in 1951 in London."
tagline: "Polish writer, World War II underground fighter, and political dissident (1919–2000)"
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birthDate: "1919-05-20"
deathDate: "2000-07-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump