In the capital, he was one of the leading advocates for Socialist Realism in literature. He also started to work as a journalist at Odrodzenie weekly, moving to Warsaw in 1947 to continue his work for the magazine. In the spring of 1945 Konwicki moved to Kraków, where he enrolled at Jagiellonian University. After the war Wilno (retrieving its name as Vilnius in the process) was annexed by the Soviet Union and Konwicki was expatriated. In November 1944, he joined Tur's (Witold Turonek) unit and fought until Apone of the last guerrilla units in the area. He later disarmed and went into hiding from the Soviet Army. Konwicki continued his studies underground and joined the eighth Oszmiana Brigade of the Home Army that took part in the nationwide guerrilla operation code-named Operation Tempest and Operation Ostra Brama. Immediately following the outbreak of World War II, Wilno was occupied by the Soviet Union and subsequently by Nazi Germany, and all education for Poles was discontinued. He attended a local King Zygmunt August gymnasium. His father died early and Konwicki lived with his great-aunt and great-uncle who he later depicted in his novels. Konwicki was born in 1926 as the only son of Jadwiga Kieżun and Michał Konwicki in Nowa Wilejka, where he spent his early childhood. Tadeusz Konwicki (22 June 1926 – 7 January 2015) was a Polish writer and film director, as well as a member of the Polish Language Council. Nowa Wilejka, Poland (now Naujoji Vilnia, Lithuania)
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