Born in Warsaw on October 17, 1946 into a Jewish family, Adam Michnik marked his opposition to Moscow after World War II. The journalist has always maintained his dissidence and “embodies the European liberal resistance against Russia”, in the words of the ABC newspaper. In an interview with the American weekly The New Yorker, he defined himself as “a committed opponent” and not “an impartial witness” in reference to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
His militancy has always been like this: while studying history in the 1960s at the University of Warsaw, he co-organized a student demonstration in March 1968 calling for freedom of expression. For his participation in riots, he was expelled from the university and sentenced to three years in prison, but ended up completing his distance studies in history at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna, according to the AFP news agency.
In addition, he was one of the founders of the KOR movement (Committee for the Defense of Workers) and later a member of the Solidarity movement since its creation in 1980. In 1989, three years after his last term in prison, he became a deputy. Currently, he directs the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza.
The Polish journalist won the Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities, which has distinguished very different figures, from humorists The Luthiers in 2017 to the Mexican journalist Alma Guillerprieto in 2018.
The Humanities award is one of the eight Princess of Asturias awards, which comes after the Arts award, which this year went to two flamenco figures, the singer Carmen Linares and the choreographer María Pagés.
Source: Ambito
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