Parandowski Jan, Olympic discus [Jerusalem 1944].

Parandowski Jan, The Olympic Discus, outpost of "On the Road" Publishing House, Jerusalem 1944, p. 247, dimensions 13 x 18.5 cm. Unpaginated. ownership stamps. Minor entries. Tears on the title page. Publisher's softcover.

Jan Parandowski's 1933 historical novel, for which he was awarded a bronze medal in the Olympic art and literature competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. Jan Parandowski (1895 - 1978) - Polish writer, essayist and translator of literature, author of Mythology, Olympic medalist (1936), twice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature (1957, 1959).