Anna Bikont

Polish journalist and non-fiction writer, co-founder of the daily Gazeta Wyborcza and former underground press editor. She is best known for The Crime and the Silence, her investigation of the 1941 Jedwabne pogrom, and for biographies including a study of poet Wislawa Szymborska and a book on rescuer Irena Sendler. Her work has received international recognition, including the European Book Prize and the National Jewish Book Award.