Piotr Bikont
Born(1955-05-12)12 May 1955
Died27 June 2017(2017-06-27) (aged 62)
Sosnowiec, Poland
Occupation(s)Journalist, food critic, publicist

Piotr Bikont (12 May 1955 – 27 June 2017) was a Polish journalist, publicist, culinary critic and a theatre director.[1][2][3]

Bikont translated Art Spiegelman's graphic novel Maus to Polish. He was a member of editorial staff of the talking magazine Gadający Pies based in Kraków, and the author of a book Jewish Cooking According to Balbina Przepiórko.[4]

Bikont was married to journalist Anna Bikont, co-founder and editor of Tygodnik Mazowsze[5] and Gazeta Wyborcza. He died on 27 June 2017, in a car accident.[6] He was 62.

He was married to publicist Anna Bikont, with whom he had two children, Maniucha Bikont, an anthropologist and artist, and Aleksandra Bikont.[7]

References

  1. Iwona Irwin Zarecka, Frames of Remembrance: The Dynamics of Collective Memory
  2. Video Shooter: Storytelling with DV, HD and HDV Cameras By Barry Braverman
  3. The New Yorker, F-R Publishing Corporation, 1992
  4. "Meeting with Piotr Bikont - 'Jewish Cooking According to Balbina Przepiórko' " Archived 2015-05-05 at the Wayback Machine, Jewish Festival
  5. Shana Penn, Solidarity's Secret: The Women who Defeated Communism, The University of Michigan Press, 2005
  6. "Piotr Bikont, dziennikarz i krytyk kulinarny, nie żyje", Wyborcza (in Polish)
  7. "Wyborcza.pl". wyborcza.pl. Retrieved 2023-02-18.


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