Teresa Bogucka


Teresa Bogucka 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.

Books

  • 1997:Polak po komunizmie, Znak, Kraków, Fundacja im. Stefana Batorego, Warsaw
  • 2000: Cienie w ogrodzie, Sic!, Warsaw
  • 2002: Triumfujące profanum: telewizja po przełomie 1989, Sic!, Warsaw

Awards and recognition