Poet, critic and translator Bolesław Taborski has died in London at the age of 83.

He fought in the Warsaw Rising of 1944 and was subsequently imprisoned in a German POW camp. After the war, he settled in London, where he worked for the Polish Section of the BBC from 1959 to 1993. His output includes eight volumes of poetry and several books on the theatre (A New Elizabethean Theatre, Polish Plays in English Translations - a bibliography, and Byron and the Theatre).

Bolesław Taborski has earned a reputation for his numerous translations of works by Graham Greene, Robert Graves and Harold Pinter into Polish, as well as for the translations into English of books by Pope John Paul II and of plays by Stanisław Przybyszewski.

In 1998 he published a book of recollections from the Warsaw Rising. (mk)