Piotr Bikont Explained

Birth Date:	12 May 1955
Birth Place:	Poznań, Poland
Occupation:	Journalist, food critic, publicist
Death Place:	Sosnowiec, Poland

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]

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=qZ6KitMdVyIC&dq=Piotr+Bikont&pg=PA167 Iwona Irwin Zarecka, Frames of Remembrance: The Dynamics of Collective Memory
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=N-LFTl_MUaIC&dq=Piotr+Bikont&pg=PA1 Video Shooter: Storytelling with DV, HD and HDV Cameras By Barry Braverman
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=FQwnAQAAIAAJ&q=Piotr+Bikont The New Yorker, F-R Publishing Corporation, 1992
4. http://jewishfestival.pl/meeting-with-piotr-bikont----jewish-cooking-according-to-balbina-przepiorko-,299,event,en.html "Meeting with Piotr Bikont - 'Jewish Cooking According to Balbina Przepiórko' "
5. Shana Penn, Solidarity's Secret: The Women who Defeated Communism, The University of Michigan Press, 2005
6. http://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,22019562,nie-zyje-krytyk-kulinarny-i-dziennikarz-piotr-bikont.html "Piotr Bikont, dziennikarz i krytyk kulinarny, nie żyje"
7. Web site: Wyborcza.pl . 2023-02-18 . wyborcza.pl.