Anna Bikont is a Polish journalist and writer whose work delves into profound social and historical matters. She often focuses her writing on complex and controversial events that have shaped Polish society, exploring them with piercing psychological insight. Her work is distinguished by its pursuit of truth and understanding of human motivations, particularly within contexts of collective memory and historical responsibility. Bikont aims to foster critical thought and dialogue on challenging subjects through her journalistic and literary endeavors.
Part history, part memoir, part investigation, The Crime and the Silence is an award-winning journalist's account of the events of that day: both the story of a massacre told through oral histories of survivors and witnesses, and a portrait of a Polish town coming to terms with its dark past.