Lem, Stanislaw
1921 - Born on the 12th of September in Lwów, Poland.
1939-1941 - He studied medicine at Lwów University.
- Lem was able to survive with false papers working as a car mechanic and welder, and was a member of the resistance fighting against the Germans.
1946 - Lwow had been annexed by the Soviet Ukraine and Lem, as many other Poles, was repatriated from the Kresy to Kraków where he took up medical studies at the Jagiellonian University.
1947-1950 - Lem, while continuing his work as a scientific research assistant, published poems, short stories, and scientific essays.
1951 - He published his first science fiction novel, Astronauci this work, showing many traces of the style labeled socialist realism.
1957 - He published his first non-fiction, philosophical book, Dialogi. Dialogi and Summa Technologiae from 1964 are likely his two most famous philosophical texts.
1974 - He gained international fame for The Cyberiad, a series of short stories from a mechanical universe ruled by robots, first published in English.
- His best known novels include Solaris in 1961, GBos pana in 1983, and Fiasko in 1987.
1982 - He left his home country and moved to Berlin where he became a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg.
1988 - He settled in Vienna. He returned to Poland.
2006 - Died in Kraków on the 27th of March, at the age of 84 after a battle with heart disease.
1939-1941 - He studied medicine at Lwów University.
- Lem was able to survive with false papers working as a car mechanic and welder, and was a member of the resistance fighting against the Germans.
1946 - Lwow had been annexed by the Soviet Ukraine and Lem, as many other Poles, was repatriated from the Kresy to Kraków where he took up medical studies at the Jagiellonian University.
1947-1950 - Lem, while continuing his work as a scientific research assistant, published poems, short stories, and scientific essays.
1951 - He published his first science fiction novel, Astronauci this work, showing many traces of the style labeled socialist realism.
1957 - He published his first non-fiction, philosophical book, Dialogi. Dialogi and Summa Technologiae from 1964 are likely his two most famous philosophical texts.
1974 - He gained international fame for The Cyberiad, a series of short stories from a mechanical universe ruled by robots, first published in English.
- His best known novels include Solaris in 1961, GBos pana in 1983, and Fiasko in 1987.
1982 - He left his home country and moved to Berlin where he became a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg.
1988 - He settled in Vienna. He returned to Poland.
2006 - Died in Kraków on the 27th of March, at the age of 84 after a battle with heart disease.
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