Teresa Bogucka (born April 1945, Zakopane, Poland) is a Polish journalist, writer, and former democratic opposition activist associated with the banana youth in Communist Poland.Teresa Bogucka in: Encyklopedia Solidarności [Encyclopedia of Solidarność]Krystyna Duniec, "Teresa Bogucka", In: Opozycja w PRL. Słownik biograficzny 1956–89, vol. 3. Warsaw, Ośrodek Karta, 2006. Her father was the art critic Janusz Bogucki. She played a key part in underground publishing and samizdat circulation, including organizing a covert “Flying Library” to distribute prohibited literature across Poland while avoiding detection by state security. This literature may have been indirectly received from the Central Intelligence Agency's covert book distribution programme led by George C. Minden.
Books 1997:Polak po komunizmie [The Pole after Communism], Znak, Kraków, Fundacja im. Stefana Batorego, Warsaw 2000: Cienie w ogrodzie [Shadows in the garden], Sic!, Warsaw 2002: Triumfujące profanum: telewizja po przełomie 1989 [Triumphing Profanity: Television of the Break of 1989], Sic!, Warsaw
Awards and recognition 2006: Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta"Postanowienie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 21 września 2006 r. o nadaniu orderów", M.P. 2006 nr 84 poz. 848 2004: Kisiel Prize 1998 Her book Polak po komunizmie was nominated for the Nike AwardNike Award, 1998 1991: Polish PEN Club Award
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External links Publications of Teresa Bogucka in Gazeta Wyborcza