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Adam Michnik
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Adam Michnik is a Polish journalist, writer, trade unionist, and historian. Born in Warsaw in 1946, he is a member of the Jewish people and speaks Polish. He studied at the University of Warsaw and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań under Lech Trzeciakowski. His professional career includes work with Gazeta Wyborcza and membership in the Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy Polskich, Związek Młodzieży Socjalistycznej, Council on Foreign Relations, and Komitet Obrony Robotników. He was a member of the Democratic Union political party.
Michnik has received the Erasmus Prize, Dan David Prize, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, and Goethe Medal. He participated in the Polish Round Table Agreement and stood as a candidate in the 1989 Polish legislative election. His notable works include Między Panem a plebanem, Rethinking civil society, W cieniu totalitaryzmu, Polskie pytania, and Gdy myślę Polska. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Andrzej Jagodziński and Andrzej Zagozda.
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- Works
- 47
Top works
- Między Panem a plebanem
- Rethinking civil society
- W cieniu totalitaryzmu
- Polskie pytania
- Gdy myślę Polska
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1946-10-17 ) 17 October 1946 (age 79) , Warsaw , Poland
- Education
- Adam Mickiewicz University ( M.A. , 1975)
- Occupations
- Journalist historian essayist former dissident
- Movement
- Banana youth
- Awards
- List Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award , 1986 , Erasmus Prize , 2001 , Legion of Honour , 2003 , Dan David Prize , 2006 , Order of the White Eagle , 2010 , Goethe Medal , 2011 , Princess of Asturias Award , 2022
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Adam
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Poland
- Place of birth
- Warsaw
- Sibling
- Stefan Michnik
- Occupation
- dissident
- Employer
- Gazeta Wyborcza
- Political party
- Democratic Union
- Languages spoken
- Polish
- Student of
- Lech Trzeciakowski
- Field of work
- journalism
- Image
- Adam Michnik 2018.jpg
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- Adam Michnik
- date of birth
- 1946-10-17
- ethnic group
- Jewish people
- name in native language
- Adam Michnik
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- WikiProject Human rights
- pseudonym
- Andrzej Zagozda
- member of
- Solidarity
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- Adam Michnik
- candidacy in election
- 1989 Polish legislative election
- medical condition
- stuttering
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Encyclopedic overview
Adam Michnik ( Polish: [ˈadam ˈmixɲik]; born 17 October 1946) is a Polish historian, essayist, former dissident, public intellectual, as well as co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza.
Reared in a family of committed communists, Michnik became an opponent of Poland's communist regime at the time of the party's anti-Jewish purges of 1968. He was imprisoned after the 1968 March Events and again after the imposition of martial law in 1981. He has been called "one of Poland's most famous political prisoners".
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