Bruno Schulz

Bruno Schulz
Born	(1892-07-12)12 July 1892 Drohobych, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
Died	19 November 1942(1942-11-19) (aged 50) Drohobycz, German-occupied Poland
Occupation	Writer, fine artist, literary critic, art teacher
Genre	Novel, short story
Literary movement	modernism, surrealism, magic realism
Notable works	Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass The Street of Crocodiles aka Cinnamon Shops

Bruno Schulz (12 July 1892 – 19 November 1942) was a Polish Jewish writer, fine artist, literary critic and art teacher.^[1] He is regarded as one of the great Polish-language prose stylists of the 20th century. In 1938, he was awarded the Polish Academy of Literature's prestigious Golden Laurel award. Several of Schulz's works were lost in the Holocaust, including short stories from the early 1940s and his final, unfinished novel The Messiah. Schulz was shot and killed by a Gestapo officer in 1942 while walking back home toward Drohobycz Ghetto with a loaf of bread.