movement death_date death_place influenced birth_place influences nationality notableworks birth_date genre image article_title name occupation
modernism , surrealism , magic realism 19 november 1942 drohobycz , german occupied poland witold jerzy kosiński , jerzy prokopiuk , stanisław lem gombrowicz , eustachy rylski , china miéville , drohobych , kingdom of galicia and lodomeria franz kafka , rainer maria rilke , thomas mann polish '' , '' the street of crocodiles '' aka '' cinnamon sanatorium shops '' under the sign of the hourglass '' 12 july 1892 novel , short story bruno schulz -lrb- 1892 -- 1942 -rrb- . jpg bruno schulz
 bruno schulz writer teacher , fine artist , literary critic , art
bruno schulz

bruno schulz -lrb- july 12 , 1892 -- november 19 , 1942 -rrb- was a polish writer , fine artist , literary critic and art teacher born to jewish parents .
he is regarded as one of the great polish-language prose stylists of the 20th century .
in 1938 , he was awarded the polish academy of literature 's prestigious golden laurel award .
several of schulz 's works have been lost in the holocaust , including short stories from the early 1940s and his final , unfinished novel `` the messiah '' .
schulz was shot and killed by a german nazi in 1942 while walking back home toward drohobycz ghetto with a loaf of bread .
