Adam Michnik

Adam Michnik, historian, writer, lecturer, and former dissident, is the best known Polish public intellectual and one of Poland’s leading journalists. In 1989 Michnik helped found the first independent Polish daily newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza, which he has since served as editor-in-chief. A life-long activist for human rights, he was detained many times between 1965 and 1986, spending a total of six years in prison for his opposition to the communist regime. An adviser to the Solidarity trade union in 1980 and 1981, he was part of the Solidarity team during the Round Table negotiations of 1989 between the opposition and the government. He is the author of many essays, articles and books, including two collected volumes Letters from Prison and Other Essays and Letters from Freedom. (2005)

Events

April 28, 2004 

November 14-15, 2005