Bruno Schulz was born in 1892 in Drohobych, in western Ukraine south of the city of Lviv. He spent nearly his entire life there and was generally unwilling to travel, with trips outside of his native city that were sporadic and brief. He viewed Drohobych as the center of the world and, as an acute observer of life there, proved himself an excellent "chronicler." His writings and drawing are saturated with the realities of Drohobych, with stories replete with descriptions of the main streets and landmarks, and graphic street scenes and portraits of its inhabitants.
Schulz published two books of short fiction, Ulica Krokodyli / The Street of Crocodiles and Sanatorium pod klepsydrą / Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass. A novel on which the writer was working, The Messiah, is considered lost. On the 19th of November 1942, Schulz was shot and killed by a German officer in the Drohobych ghetto.
Source: PAP, culture.pl