Bruno Jasieński

Bruno Jasieński
Bruno Jasieński
BornWiktor Zysman
(1901-07-17)17 July 1901
Klimontów, Congress Poland
Died17 September 1938(1938-09-17) (aged 37)
Kommunarka shooting ground, Moscow, Soviet Union
OccupationPoet
LanguagePolish
Notable worksBut w butonierce ('A Boot in the Boutonniere')
Pieśń o głodzie ('Song of Hunger')

Bruno Jasieński (Polish: [ˈbrunɔ jaˈɕeɲskʲi]; born Victor Bruno Sysmann; Polish: Wiktor Bruno Zysman; Russian: Зисман, Виктор Яковлевич; 17 July 1901 – 17 September 1938), was a Polish poet, novelist, playwright, Catastrophist, and leader of the Polish Futurist movement in the interwar period. Jasieński was also a communist activist in Poland, France and the Soviet Union, where he was executed during the Great Purge. He is acclaimed by members of the various modernist art groups as their patron. An annual literary festival Brunonalia is held in Klimontów, Poland, his birthplace, where one of the streets is also named after him.