Aleksander Wat

Aleksander Wat Aleksander Chwat
Portrait of Aleksander Wat before 1967
Born	1 May 1900 (1900-05) Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire
Died	29 July 1967 (1967-07-30) (aged 67) Antony, France

Aleksander Wat was the pen name of Aleksander Chwat (1 May 1900 – 29 July 1967), a Polish poet, writer, art theoretician, memorist, and one of the precursors of the Polish futurism movement in the early 1920s, considered to be one of the more important Polish writers of the mid 20th century.^[1] In 1959, he emigrated to France and in 1963 relocated to the United States, where he worked at the Center for Slavic and East European Studies of the University of California, Berkeley.^[1]