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Warsaw museum brings Białoszewski back to life

Ludmiła Murawska and Miron Białoszewski riding a Warsaw tram in 1959. Marek Piasecki/J. Turowicz-Piasecki, Fundacja Archeologia Fotografii

The Wola branch of the Museum of Warsaw has put on a show which highlights the life and times of one of the capital’s most well-known – yet most-forgotten – writers and artists, Miron Białoszewski.

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