Anna Bikont

Anna Bikont

Anna Bikont (born Anna Krystyna Kruczkowska July 17, 1954 in Warsaw ) is a Polish journalist and writer .

Life

Anna Kruczkowska is a daughter of the Polish journalist Wilhelmina Skulska-Kruczkowska (1918–1998). She was married to the actor Piotr Bikont (1955-2017) with whom she has two children. She studied psychology . In the 1980s, Bikont was associated with Solidarność and worked for the underground newspaper Tygodnik Mazowsze from 1982 to 1989 . In 1989 she was a co-founder of Gazeta Wyborcza . She received an honorary doctorate from the University of Gothenburg in 2017 .

Publications

• Pamiątkowe rupiecie, przyjaciele i sny Wisławy Szymborskiej , 1997, together with Joanna Szczęsna
• My z Jedwabnego , 2004
• Lawina i kamienie. Pisarze wobec komunizmu , 2006, together with Joanna Szczęsna
• Sendlerowa. W ukryciu , 2017

Nominations and Awards

• 2005: Finalist of the Nike Literature Prize with My z Jedwabnego
• 2011: European Book Prize for Le Crime et le Silence ( My z Jedwabnego )
• 2018: Finalist of the Nike Literature Prize with Sendlerova. W ukryciu
• 2018: Adam Mickiewicz Prize for Sendlerowa. W ukryciu

Web links

• Anna Bikont. In: czarne.com.pl. Retrieved October 7, 2018 (Polish). 
• Anna Bikont (Warsaw). In: slawistik.hu-berlin.de. Retrieved October 7, 2018 .