1. John Guzlowski was born on 1948 and is a Polish-American author.
11 Facts About John Guzlowski
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John Guzlowski was born the son of parents who met in a Nazi slave labor camp in Germany.
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John Guzlowski's mother Tekla Hanczarek came from a small community west of Lwow in what was then Poland where her father was a forest warden.
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John Guzlowski taught literature and creative writing at Eastern Illinois University and retired in 2005.
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John Guzlowski has authored three books about his parents' experiences: Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded, Lightning and Ashes, and Third Winter of War: Buchenwald.
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John Guzlowski received the Benjamin Franklin Award for Poetry from the Independent Book Publishers Association and the Eric Hoffer Foundation's Montaigne Award for Thought Provoking writing for his memoir in prose and poetry Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded.
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John Guzlowski received an Illinois Arts Council Award in 2001.
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John Guzlowski is the author of three mystery novels set in a Polish-American neighborhood in Chicago in the 1950s and 1960s: Suitcase Charlie and Little Altar Boys and Murdertown.
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John Guzlowski has written Retreat: A Love Story, a novel about two German Lovers separated during World War II.
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John Guzlowski recently published three books of poems, True Confessions and Mad Monk Ikkyu and Small Talk.
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Since 2018, John Guzlowski has been a columnist for the Dziennik Zwiazkowy, the oldest Polish daily newspaper in America.