About Teresa Bogucka
Born 1945. Teresa Bogucka is a Polish journalist and writer.
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. 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.
2004: Kisiel Prize
1991: Polish PEN Club Award
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Who is Teresa Bogucka?
Polish journalist
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Teresa Bogucka was born on 5 April 1945 in Zakopane.
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Teresa Bogucka is a journalist and writer.
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Teresa Bogucka is Polish.
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