Anna Bikont

Anna Bikont
Bikont at a reading of The Crime and the Silence at Boston University in 2015.
Born (1954-07-17) 17 July 1954 (age 70)
EducationWarsaw University
OccupationWriter
Known forCo-founder Gazeta Wyborcza
SpousePiotr Bikont (deceased 2017)

Anna Bikont (born 17 July 1954) is a Polish journalist for the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper in Warsaw.[1] She is the author of several books, including My z Jedwabnego (2004) about the 1941 Jedwabne pogrom, which was published in English as The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne (2015). The French edition, Le crime et le silence, won the European Book Prize in 2011.[2]

  1. ^ "Anna Bikont". Macmillan Publishers.
  2. ^ Barnes, Julian (19 November 2015). "Even Worse than We Thought". New York Review of Books.