Piotr Pytlakowski (born 1951 in
Warsaw
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) is a
Polish
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journalist and screenwriter, from 1997 associated with the weekly "
Polityka
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".
Biography
He is the son of Jerzy Pytlakowski and Sabina née Wiernik (1918–1990). His mother came from a Jewish family.
He completed an extramural professional study of
political science
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for journalist at the
Institute of Journalism at the University of Warsaw. He worked, among others in "''
Gazeta Wyborcza
''Gazeta Wyborcza'' (; ''The Electoral Gazette'' in English) is a Polish daily newspaper based in Warsaw, Poland. It is the first Polish daily newspaper after the era of "real socialism" and one of Poland's newspapers of record, covering the g ...
''", "''
Życie Warszawy
''Życie Warszawy'' (meaning ''Life of Warsaw'' in English) is a Polish language newspaper published in Warsaw.
History and profile
''Życie Warszawy'' was founded in 1944 as an initiative of Polish Workers' Party. The paper is published by Grem ...
''", "''
Życie
''Życie'' (, "Life") was an illustrated weekly established in 1897 and published in Kraków and Lwów in the Austrian partition of Poland. Founded by Ludwik Szczepański, with time it became one of the most popular Polish literary and artistic ...
''", and since 1997 he has been associated with the weekly "''
Polityka
''Polityka'' (, ''Politics'') is a centre-left weekly news magazine in Poland. With a circulation of 200,050 (as of April 2011), it was the country's biggest selling weekly, ahead of ''Newsweek''s Polish edition, ''Newsweek Polska'', and ''Wpr ...
''", where he handles with
investigative journalism
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and criminal issues.
He won the Grand Press laureate in the "investigative journalism" category in 1999.
Filmography
* ''W poszukiwaniu utraconych lat'' (2001)
* ''Alfabet mafii'' (2004)
* ''Alfabet mafii. Dekada mafijnej Warszawy'' (2004)
* ''Świadek koronny'' (2007)
* ''Odwróceni'' (2007)
* ''Ścigany'' (2010)
* ''Wszystkie ręce umyte. Sprawa Barbary Blidy'' (2010)
* ''Zbrodnie, które wstrząsnęły Polską'' (2012)
Publications
* Piotr Pytlakowski, ''Republika MSW'', Warszawa: „Andy Grafik” 1991, .
* Piotr Pytlakowski, ''Czekając na kata. Rozmowy ze skazanymi na śmierć'', Warszawa: Niezależna Oficyna Wydawnicza 1996, .
* Ewa Ornacka, Piotr Pytlakowski, ''Alfabet mafii'', Warszawa: Prószyński i S-ka 2004, .
* Sylwester Latkowski, Piotr Pytlakowski, ''Olewnik. Śmierć za 300 tysięcy'', Warszawa: Świat Książki 2009, .
* Sylwester Latkowski, Piotr Pytlakowski, ''Wszystkie Ręce Umyte. Sprawa Barbary Blidy'', Warszawa: Wydawnictwo MUZA S.A. 2010, .
* Sylwester Latkowski, Piotr Pytlakowski, ''Agent Tomasz i Inni. Przykrywkowcy'', Warszawa: Świat Książki 2010, .
* Sylwester Latkowski, Piotr Pytlakowski, ''Biuro tajnych spraw. Kulisy Centralnego Biura Śledczego'', Warszawa, Wydawnictwo Czarna Owca 2012, .
* Ewa Ornacka, Piotr Pytlakowski, ''Nowy alfabet mafii'', Dom wydawniczy Rebis 2013
* Piotr Pytlakowski, ''Szkoła szpiegów'', Warszawa, Wydawnictwo Czerwone i Czarne 2014, .
* Piotr Pytlakowski, Piotr Wróbel, ''Mój agent Masa'', Poznań, Dom wydawniczy Rebis 2015
* Piotr Pytlakowski, ''Wspomnienia konduktora wagonów sypialnych. Powieść osobista'', Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Czerwone i Czarne 2017,
References
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1951 births
Journalists from Warsaw
Living people