“This is very sad news. Andrzej Perepeczko (1930 – 2023), 1st class ship mechanic officer, naval staff educator, writer, institution man, passed away today (November 9),” the Naval Museum in Gdynia announced on Facebook.
Andrzej Perepeczko is dead. The similarity of their names with the series’ Janosik is not accidental
“A graduate of PSM Gdynia in 1950 and the Gdańsk University of Technology. He went through all levels of his maritime career – from a stoker to a senior mechanic. He was banned from swimming, and performed substitute military service as a miner in the labor battalion. A long-time lecturer at the Maritime School, dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, professor at the Military Maritime University. . Author of hundreds of professional and popular science publications and books for young people. Doctor of humanities. A unique man with a Renaissance biography. Goodbye Chief RIP,” his colleagues said goodbye to him.
He was born on June 5, 1930 in Lviv. He was related to the family of actor Marek Perepczka. During the occupation, Andrzej lived with his father Marek. He made his literary debut by anonymously participating in a novel competition announced by Wydawnictwo Morskie in October 1956. The book by the author hiding under the pseudonym “Absolwent” was titled “A Course for Dawn”. It referred to the unofficial “anthem” of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the State Maritime School. He published prose in the “Morze” magazine. In 1970 he received the award. Mariusz Zaruski. In 2002 he received the Prince Mściwoj II Medal.
“Several of his books on the secondary market fetch such prices that the author cannot afford them.”
He also wrote for children and teenagers. His most popular series are stories about a boy nicknamed Wild Ant, whose father is a sailor. Between 1977 and 2017, eight parts of this series were published.
“Reading portals indicate over 90 titles. However, I have the impression that they are uninformed. When we arranged the stacks of books, it turned out that some titles had wandered somewhere, and several of them on the secondary market fetch such prices that the author cannot afford allow them,” wrote photographer Łukasz Głowala in his farewell to his “favorite neighbor.” He is the author of the photo with all the items written by Perepeczka, which he took at the author’s request.
“There is maybe a third of it in this photo because we haven’t arranged all of them yet. He wrote so many of them that I had to take a break while wearing them so as not to get a hernia,” wrote Głowala.
Source: Gazeta
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