Kvasinev biography

Matsu Sklokmchinsky was born on April 10 in Warsaw. His father Merian Koldwell Cooper, an American aviator, was an adventurer and a volunteer came to Poland to participate in the Soviet-Polish war. After returning to America, he became a famous director and producer. In the year he shot a legendary film about King Kong. Mother, Englishwoman, Majori Crosby, after Merian left for America, again married the Poles of Alexander Skamchinsky, and ...

the boy took the surname of his stepfather. In the year, Matsu joined the underground struggle with the Nazis, and joined the ranks of the army of Kraiova. In the year, he was arrested and put in Paviak-the main prison center of the Governor General. From there he managed to flee, he moved west, joined the US Army, then served in the American military police in France. In the year he returned from emigration to Poland, where he was persecuted and was under the supervision of the special services of Poland, as a probable English spy.

In the literature, Matsu Skamchinsky debuted in the year in the Lodz magazine "Week" "Tydzien". From childhood, mother instilled in Matsu's good knowledge of the English language, so he worked as a translator, and since this work was easily and carried away, he became a brilliant expert on English literature. He translated the famous Roman “Ulysses” for the translations of the translations of, for example, for eleven years.

However, the fame was brought not by excellent translations, but by the composition of detective stories in the English style, published under the pseudonym Joe Alex Juzef Alex, which is united by the main character Joe or Juzef Alex - a transparent hint of the Elleri Cuin’s romance series about the writer and detective Elleri Kuin. Juzef helps his friend with the police inspector Scotland Yard Ben Parker in unraveling the puzzle crimes.

Often, Carolina Bacon, a young and talented woman, an archaeologist, a romantic relationship with whom Joe Alex, develop from book to book, participates in these investigations.

For the image of the Ben Parker police officer, the author was awarded by Honorary Awards of Scotland Yard. The detective novels of Sklmchinsky are written in a good literary language and are examples of a classic English detective that absorbed all the best that attracts in this genre: the dynamics of the plot, intellectual martial arts, gloomy crimes and their unraveling.

Each of the eight books of the cycle is preferred by a poetic epigraph from Shakespeare, Aeschylus, Kipling, Ionesco, etc. As a rule, in the original, a line from the epigraph is the title of the book. In many Russian translations, this literary game has not been preserved. The translations of his novels were very popular in Soviet times, about a million copies of his works were published.

In total, he created 45 works, 28 plays and cinematic concentrations, 81 translations from English to Polish were made; 52 of his works are translated into foreign languages. Almost 10 million copies of his books have been published. Matsu Skamchinsky is the initiator of the creation of the famous “Cobra” - the Polish television theater of action -packed criminal plays, he wrote one of which “ladies from Acheron” himself.

Sklimchinsky was a member of the Polish writers' partnership, the International Non-governmental Association "Rotari International", vice president of the James Joyce Foundation International Association, and with a member of the Irish Institute for the Study of the Creativity of D. He died on March 20 at the age of 77. He was buried in the Hall of Honor of the Sink Cemetery in Krakow.

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