Anna Bikont
From 2 September to 16 December 2020

The Polish journalist and nonfiction writer Anna Bikont cofounded and edited the underground weekly Tygodnik Mazowsze, which was associated with the Solidarity movement when martial law gripped the country from 1981 to 1989. In 1989 she was one of the cofounders of Gazeta Wyborcza, the first independent daily in post-Communist Europe. Her book My z Jedwabnego has been translated into many languages; the French edition (Le crime et le silence) took the European Book Prize in 2011. The English-language edition of the book, The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) was published in 2015. In 2017, she received a doctorate honoris causa from Gothenburg University.