Teresa Torana ( Polish: Teresa Torańska ; January 1, 1944 , Volkovysk - January 2, 2013 , Warsaw ) is a Polish journalist and writer. Gained fame thanks to the book “They” (1985), based on interviews with former leaders of the Polish People’s Republic .
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Disease and death
- 3 Awards
- 4 notes
Biography
Teresa Toranskaya was born on January 1, 1944 in Volkovysk (now the Grodno region of Belarus ) occupied by the Germans. After the war ended, she moved to Poland with her family. In 1966 she graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw , and in 1969 - journalism courses [2] [3] . She started her career as a journalist in the editorial office of the weekly Argumenty, in 1973-1975 she worked in the monthly magazine Światowid [4] , from 1975 until the introduction of martial law she worked as a journalist in the social reporting section of the weekly newspaper Kultura [3] . In 1985 she moved to Paris , where she worked in the monthly journal of Polish emigration " Kultura " [5] . Later, Teresa Torana lived in the USA, published in Granta, L'Osservatore Romano, New York-based Polish-language publication Nowy Dziennik and other publications [6] .
In 1985, Teresa Toranjska published the book “They,” which was based on interviews with former high-ranking communist leaders of the Polish People’s Republic of 1945-1956. Her interlocutors were Edward Ohab , Jakub Berman , Roman Verfel , Stefan Stashevsky and Julia Mints, widow of Hilary Mints . This book has become a bestseller and has been translated into more than 10 languages [6] . Critics compared her style of interview with Oriana Fallaci [7] . In communist Poland, the book "They" was distributed only in the form of samizdat . In 1986, Teresa Torana won the Publishing House Solidarity Prize for the best book by a Polish author published in samizdat. In 2000, the book "They" was awarded the Prize of the Polish PEN Club. Xavier of Pruszynski [6] .
In 1994, Teresa Torana’s second book, “We,” was published, which included an interview with Leszek Balcerowicz , Jan Krzysztof Beletskim , Jaroslav Kaczynski , Viktor Kulersky , Jacek Merkel , Jan Rulewski and Pyotr Shchepanik [6] .
Between 2000 and 2011, Teresa Toranskaya worked for the Duży Format newspaper, a reporter’s supplement to the Vyborcha Newspaper . From March 2012 to the end of her life, she was published in the weekly Newsweek Polska [6] . She has also authored the Teraz Wy talk show on TVP2 and a series of television interviews with communist activists.
In 2006, her next collection of interviews, Former, was released. The interlocutors of Teresa Torana were Wojciech Jaruzelski , Jerzy Urban , Jozef Teichma and Kazimierz Konkol. The next book, “They Are” (2007) includes interviews with Eva Lentovskaya , Wanda Vilkomirsky , Michal Glowinsky , Jan Novak-Jezioranski , Edmund Vnuk-Lipinsky . Published in 2008, the book “We are. Parting '68 ”tells about the fate of emigrants who left Poland after the political crisis of 1968 . The 2010 book, Death is Late for a Minute, about the Holocaust in Poland includes three interviews with Michal Bristiger , Michal Glowinsky and Adam Daniel Rotfeld [6] .
Until the end of her life, Teresa Toranskaya worked on a book about the disaster near Smolensk in April 2010 . This unfinished book was published after her death, in September 2013. The book includes interviews with Jerzy Bar , Adam Belyan , Joachim Brudzinsky , Anna and Bronislaw Komorowski , Eva Kopach , Longina Putka, Eva Komorowska, Henrik Samsonovich , Bozena Mikka and Michal Kaminsky [6] .
Sickness and death
In 2011, Teresa Torana was diagnosed with lung cancer . After a course of chemotherapy, the cancer was mostly destroyed, but in December 2012 her health condition deteriorated sharply. Teresa Torana died in Warsaw on January 2, 2013 [8] . She was buried in the Military Ponzki cemetery.
Rewards
- 2001 - Officer Cross of the Order of the Renaissance of Poland
- 2013 - Commander Cross of the Order of the Renaissance of Poland
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ Małgorzata Purzyńska: Ja, my, oni. Teresa Torańska w rozmowie z Małgorzatą Purzyńską. Warszawa: Agora SA, 2013, s. 21. ISBN 978-83-268-1227-9 .
- ↑ 1 2 Teresa Torańska: Oni. Londyn: Aneks, 1985, s. ostatnia strona, nienumerowana. ISBN 0-906601-22-3 .
- ↑ Małgorzata Purzyńska: Ja, my, oni. Teresa Torańska w rozmowie z Małgorzatą Purzyńską. Warszawa: Agora SA, 2013, s. 52-56. ISBN 978-83-268-1227-9 .
- ↑ Małgorzata Purzyńska: Ja, my, oni. Teresa Torańska w rozmowie z Małgorzatą Purzyńską. Warszawa: Agora SA, 2013, s. 61. ISBN 978-83-268-1227-9 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Teresa Torana // culture.pl
- ↑ Gross, John . BOOKS OF THE TIMES .
- ↑ Teresa Torańska nie żyje // wyborcza.pl [dostęp 2018-04-02].