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Andrzej Szczypiorski (; February 3, 1924 — May 16, 2000) was a Polish novelist and politician.

His father, Adam Szczypiorski, was a political activist, historian and mathematician.

During World War II he pursued studied in the underground university movement, called the "flying university" due to the regular movement of its location, and was a partisan of the Polish People’s Army. He was a participant of the Warsaw Uprising.After the Warsaw Uprising he was arrested and condemned to be a prisoner of Sachsenhausen concentration camp in which he survided until 1945.

In 1946-1947 he studied political science in the Warsaw Consular Diplomatic Academy.

In 1948-1956, Szczypiorski worked as an editor and in the theater, in the Katowice Silesian Theater. During this period, in 1952, he made his literary debut in the publication "?yciu Literackim" using the pseudonym 'Maurice S. Andrews' and was inducted into the Polish Writers Union.

In 1956-1958, he was selected to serve in the Polish Embassy to Denmark, after which he returned to work as an editor on the radio and for publications.

He later served as a member of the Polish legislature.

He was a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.

Prior to his death, Szczypiorski converted to Calvinism, and is buried in the Warsaw Evangelical Reform Cemetery.

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