Mariusz Szczygieł

Polish journalist Mariusz Szczygiel (b. 1966) has been working for Gazeta Wyborcza since 1990. In the mid-1990s he presented the very first talk show in Poland, “On Any Subject You Like”. In 1996 he published a collection of articles about Poland entitled “Sunday, Which Came On a Wednesday”. His second book, Gottland, on the history of the Czech Republic, won the European Book Prize in 2009.