Valuable memorabilia from the study of the eminent twentieth-century historical novelist Teodor Parnicki (1908-1988) are on display in the General Reading Room of the Library of the Academy of Technology and Humanities (ATH).
The memorabilia include a desk that was used by the writer in the last period of his life and work. At this desk, in his flat in Warsaw’s Ochota district, working until the last days before his death, he wrote 10 novels in which, in addition to historical plots, he used elements of historical fiction and his own extraordinary biography.
Displayed next to the desk, chair and lamp, there are reproductions of a fragment of a painting by Jacob Jordaens (1621) from his study and an English map of Poland from 1622 by John Speed. The memorabilia were donated to the library as a temporary deposit by Dr Tomasz Markiewka, a researcher of the writer’s oeuvre and employee of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the ATH.
