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Leopold Tyrmand (May 16, 1920 in Warsaw, Poland – March 19, 1985) was a Polish novelist and editor. His father had Jewish ancestry. Leopold Tyrmand rose to prominence for his publication of anti-regime newspapers in Poland. In 1954, he was writing a diary, which he later edited and released in 1980 as "Dziennik 1954". The book, which gives a unique description of the daily life in stalinist Poland, is now considered one of his greatest achievements. He emigrated to the United States in 1966.

Once in the United States, Tyrmand regularly published essays in American periodicals such as The New Yorker and The New York Times. He became the co-founder and vice-president of the Rockford Institute, a conservative foundation critical of American publishing values and their apparent bias toward liberal writers. He served as editor of Chronicles of Culture, an anti-communist journal.

His books included Kultura Essays, Explorations in Freedom, Notebooks of a Dilettante, On the Border of Jazz and Seven Long Voyages. His most famous novel was Z?y (published in English as The Man With White Eyes).

Tyrmand died of a heart attack in Fort Myers, Florida. He was 65 years old.

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