Kornel Filipowicz was born on October 27, 1913 in Tarnopol, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Ternopil, Ukraine]. He was a writer, known for Szklana kula (1972), Egzekucja w zoo (1976) and Glos z tamtego swiata (1962). He died on February 28, 1990 in Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland.