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PAWEŁ SMOLEŃSKI

© Paweł Smoleński

Reporter, journalist, since 1989 has been writing for “Gazeta Wyborcza,” before that has cooperated with samizdat magazines. Winner of the Polish-Ukrainian Reconciliation Award 2003 for his book “Pochówek dla rezuna,” and of the Kurt Schork Award for his pieces on Iraq. In 2006 also received the Beata Pawlak Award for his collection of reportages “Izrael już nie frunie.” In 2012 he received the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.