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Waldemar Januszczak
English journalist
Waldemar Januszczak | |
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| Born | () 12 January (age70) Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, UK |
| Occupation(s) | Art critic and television presenter |
Waldemar Januszczak (born 12 January ) is a Polish-British art critic and television documentary producer and presenter.
Formerly the art critic of The Guardian, he took the same role at The Sunday Times in , and has twice won the Critic of the Year award.
Life
Januszczak was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, to Polish refugees who had arrived in England after the Second World War.
In Poland his father had been a policeman in Sanok,[1] a job which included exposing Communists. In the UK he worked as a railway carriage cleaner, but died, aged 57, when a train ran over him at Basingstoke railway station.
His widow, then aged 33, found work as a dairymaid. Waldemar was one year old at the time.[2]
The young Januszczak attended Divine Mercy College, a s