Anna Bikont

Quick Facts

Full Name	Anna Bikont
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Jul 17, 1954(1954-07-17)
Age	70
Birthplace	Warsaw
Country	Poland
Birth City	Masovian Voivodeship
Horoscope	Cancer

Anna Bikont Biography

Anna Bikont is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on July 17, 1954 in Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland. Anna Bikont (born 17 July 1954) is an Polish journalist working for The Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper in Warsaw. The author is of a number of books which include My z Jedwabnego (2004) about the 1941 Jedwabne pogrom. It was released by the publisher in English in the form of The Crime and the Silence Resolving the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne (2015). The French version, Le crime et le silence has been awarded the European Book Prize in 2011.

The writer Julian Barnes, one of the judges for the 2010 European Book Prize, describes her work to be “more than a book of memory. It is also a book about forgetting, about the pollution of memory, about the conflict between the easy, convenient truth and the awkward, harder truth. It is a work that grows from its journalistic manner and origins into the powerful writing of necessary history.”

To respond to Jan. Gross’s account of the Jedwabne massacre Neighbors: The Devastation of the Jew Community of Jedwabne, Poland (2001) The Polish government launched an investigation under the direction of prosecutor Radoslaw Ignatiew of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN). Bikont started her own journalistic investigation by interviewing a variety of individuals from Jedwabne as well as survivors’ families and people who lived in the city at the time Gross’s book was released. Her work was expanded into a non-fiction book My z Jedwabnego (2004, “Jedwabne: Battlefield of Memory”). The book was published by the publisher in French with the name Le crime et le silence (2011) and was awarded the European Book Prize. The book was released in English in 2015 under the title The Crime and the Silence The Crime and the Silence: Confronting The Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne.

Anna Bikont Net Worth

Anna Bikont is one of the richest Journalist from Poland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Anna Bikont 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Her husband director and journalist Piotr Bikont (1955-2017) was killed in a car crash.

Bikont worked at Warsaw University until 1988. In the years 1982-1989,, she worked as an undercover Solidarity activist. She was the co-founder and director of Tygodnik Mazowsze weekly, Poland’s most popular underground newspaper. In 1989, she was one of the founding members of Gazeta Wyborcza, which was the first legally-owned newspaper outside the control of the communist government. The paper became an independent entity of Solidarity in 1990. She continues to work as an experienced journalist.

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Anna Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Poland. Anna Bikont celebrates birthday on July 17 of every year.