Jerzy Zawieyski, born Henryk Nowicki, (1902–1969) was a Polish playwright, prose writer, Catholic political activist and amateur stage actor. He wrote psychological, social, moral and historical novels, dramas, stories, essays and journals.
As a secretary of the Towarzystwo Uniwersytetów Robotniczych, he did organizing work for the workers' educational and theatrical movement. Then he was an activist of the Związek Młodzieży Wiejskiej Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. During the German occupation of Poland, he was active in the underground cultural movement.
Zawieyski was homosexual. In 1933 he met Stanisław
Trębaczkiewicz. They fell in love and lived together until Zawieyski's death in
1969. They were buried next to each other in the Laski Cemetery near Warsaw.
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