JOSEPH CONRAD ON THE WALL IN WARSAW

On the walls of the houses in Warsaw you find many interesting historical plaques. My problem was that the texts were written in Polish. But I noticed one memorial plaque on my way to my hotel because the name was known to me: Joseph Conrad. The street of Warsaw was Nowy Swiat 47. The famous Polish/ British writer had lived in the house in 1861. Joseph Conrad was born December 3, 1857 in what is now Ukraine. The region had belonged to the Kingdom of Poland. He was christened Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski. Joseph Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He died in 1924, aged 66.