# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-walc
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:19:58.784Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-walc"
name: "Jan Walc"
slug: "jan-walc"
description: "Jan Walc was a Polish critic, literary historian, and journalist. He was the author of Feuilletons, reviews, reportage, and political and literary essays. A member of the democratic anti-communist opposition, the Workers Defense Committee (KOR), he was one of the organizers of the Independent Publishing House (NOWa), an underground publishing company and also operated the printing press. His works were published in Polityka, Kultura, Literatura na Świecie, Głos, Krytyka, Biuletyn Informacyjny, Kultura Niezależna, Puls, Zapis, Życie Warszawy, and Wokanda. He also wrote books on the works of Tadeusz Konwicki and Adam Mickiewicz."
tagline: "Polish journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan_Walc_identity_card.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1948-09-22"
deathDate: "1993-02-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.71
  momentum:             4.767441860465118
  historical:           4.604572
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.janwalc.pl"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83"
    title: "چان والك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Walc"
    title: "Jan Walc"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Walc"
    title: "Jan Walc"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Walc"
    title: "Jan Walc"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jan_Walc"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11719347"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump