A friend, always helpful ; an international and courageous journalist – the last years he was working for the newspaper Wprost – , translator (*) and critic, has passed away on Thursday 9th of September 2010 in Warsaw.
His real firstname was Mariusz, he liked to add a second firstname - David.
(*) M. Dastych translated with Wladyslaw Jezewski, among other things, Richard Pipes Memoirs of a Non-Belonger, into Polish : Richard Pipes, Zylem : Wspomnienia niezaleznego, Wyd. Magnum, 2004
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