Paul Polansky (Author)

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Paul Polansky

Paul Polansky (* 1942 in Mason City , Iowa) is an American author and Roma activist who campaigns for Roma rights in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. He has also lived with Roma in Eastern Europe for the past decade to research their linguistic history. and has written various books about their life in the Czech Republic and Kosovo , Serbia and Macedonia . Today he heads the Kosovo Roma Refugee Foundation (KRRF), an NGO that works with the UN camps in northern Kosovo. From July 1999 to September 2009 he was head of the mission for the Society for Threatened Peoples in Kosovo and Serbia. On December 10th, 2004 he received the human rights award of the city of Weimar .

author

Polansky has published 27 books. These include 18 books of poetry as well as non-fictional books - for example UN-Leaded Blood , which describes the death of numerous children in the UN camps in northern Kosovo through poisoning.

Publications

  • with Otakar Dvořák: Antonín Dvořák, My Father. Czech Historical Research Ctr, 1993, ISBN 0-9636734-0-8 .
  • Living Through It Twice: Poems Of The Romany Holocaust. G PLUS Editions, 1998, ISBN 80-86103-11-0 .
  • Black Silence: The Lety Survivors Speak. G PLUS Editions, 1998, ISBN 0-89304-241-2 .
  • Not a Refugee; The Plight of the Kosovo Roma (Gypsies) After the 1999 War. Voice of Roma editions, 2000.
  • The River Killed My Brother. Norton Coker editions, 2001, ISBN 1-879457-75-X .
  • The Blackbirds of Kosovo. Left Curve Publications, 2001.
  • Bus ride in Jerusalem. Roma Refugee Fund, 2003.
  • To UNHCR, with Love. Divus editions, 2003, ISBN 80-86450-27-9 .
  • Kosovo Blood. published by KRRF, 2004.
  • Sarah's People: Nish Cemetery Poems & Photos. published by KRRF, 2005.
  • UN-leaded Blood. published by KRRF, 2005, ISBN 1-879457-95-4 .
  • Safari Angola. self produced, 2006.
  • Gypsy taxi. self produced, 2007.
  • One blood, one flame: the oral histories of the Yugoslav gypsies before, during and after WWII. Kosovo Roma Refugee Foundation, 2008, ISBN 978-1-879457-72-0 .
  • Undefeated. Multimedia Edizioni, 2009.
  • Deadly neglect. self produced, 2010.
  • Boxing poems. Volo Press edizioni, 2010.
  • Poetry. Damocle Edizioni, 2011.
  • The Storm. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4637-5540-9 .
  • Black Silence. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4662-9574-2 .
  • La mia vita con gli zingari. Datanews, 2011, ISBN 978-88-7981-325-9 .
  • The silence of the violins. - Il silenzio dei violini. con Roberto Malini, Il Foglio Letterario, 2012.
  • The hand of God. - La mano di Dio. con Roberto Nassi, Il Foglio Letterario, maggio, 2012.
  • Cry, Gypsy, poems of Germany's Forced Deportations of Kosovo. Volo Press edizioni, 2012.

Movie

Polansky produced the film Gypsy Blood , which was awarded as the best informative film in 2005 at the Golden Wheel International Film Festival in Skopje .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Roma and Ashkali in Kosovo: Persecuted, driven out, poisened" ( Memento of the original dated August 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (article.) Society for Threatened Peoples . Retrieved September 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gfbv.de
  2. ^ "Paul Polansky: The road to Lety." The Prague Post . Retrieved September 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Polansky, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author and Roma activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Mason City, Iowa