found: New York times WWW site, viewed Aug. 23, 2017(in obituary published Aug. 22: Janusz Glowacki; b. Sept. 13, 1938, Poznan; while Glowacki was in London in December 1981 for a production of his play Cinders at the Royal Court Theater, Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland's Communist leader, cracked down on the country's budding Solidarity trade union movement and declared martial law; what had been intended as a short trip turned into eight years of self-imposed exile; Glowacki settled in New York City; returned to Poland after the collapse of Communism at the end of the 1980s; thereafter he split his time between Warsaw and New York; d. Saturday [Aug. 19, 2017], while vacationing in Egypt, aged 78; Polish playwright, novelist, and screenwriter who mined the ferment of Communism and its collapse in his country to create darkly humorous works about totalitarianism and the émigré experience)