Career Anna Bikont got her Master of Arts in Psychology in the Warsaw University, and worked there until 1988.
Achievements Her book "Le Crime et le Silence" won the European Book Prize in 2011. Between 1982 and 1989 She was an underground Solidarity activist. Company-founder and editor of Tygodnik Mazowsze weekly, Poland"s largest underground publication. She was a co-founder of Gazeta Wyborcza,where she still works today as senior journalist. In 2011, "Le crime et le silence" the French edition of her 2004 non-fiction book My z Jedwabnego won the European Book Prize. 2005 – shortlisted for the Nagroda Nike (Nike Prize), the Polish equivalent of the Booker Prize, for “My z Jedwabnego”.