Stanislaw Lem — Polish Writer born on September 12, 1921, died on March 27, 2006
Stanisław Lem was a Polish writer of science fiction, philosophy, and satire. Trained physician. His books have been translated into forty-one languages and have sold over forty-five million copies. From the 1950s to 2000s, he published many books, both science fiction and philosophical/futurological. He is best known as the author of the 1961 novel Solaris, which has been made into a feature film three times. In 1976, Theodore Sturgeon wrote that Lem was the most widely read science-fiction writer in the world... (wikipedia)