Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was born in Berdichev, Ukraine, on December 3rd, 1857. He was born Polish but he would become renmvned for his English short stories and novels.
His father, Apollo Korzeniovski, worked as a translator of English and French literatüre, so Joseph had a significant exposure to literatüre while stili a boy.
In 1861 his family was exiled to Northern Russia as a result of his father´s political activities. Tlıen in 1869, both of Conrad´s parents died of tuberculosis ...