Anna Bikont

Anna Bikont is a journalist for the Gazeta Wyborcza , Poland's main newspaper, which she helped found in 1989. For her articles on the crimes in Jedwabne and nearby Radzil�w, she was honored with several awards, including the Press Prize for reportage in 2001 and the Polityka Prize for historical writing. In 2011 she received the European Book Prize for the French edition of The Crime and the Silence . In 2008-2009, Bikont was a fellow at the Cullman Center of the New York Public Library....See more

Anna Bikont is a journalist for the Gazeta Wyborcza , Poland's main newspaper, which she helped found in 1989. For her articles on the crimes in Jedwabne and nearby Radzil�w, she was honored with several awards, including the Press Prize for reportage in 2001 and the Polityka Prize for historical writing. In 2011 she received the European Book Prize for the French edition of The Crime and the Silence . In 2008-2009, Bikont was a fellow at the Cullman Center of the New York Public Library. Alissa Valles is the author of Orphan Fire and the editor and cotranslator of Zbigniew Herbert's Collected Poems 1956-1998 and Collected Prose 1948-1998 . See less