Bogumiła Berdychowska-Szostakowska (born 10 January 1964) is a

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writer and journalist, often writing about the

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in the former

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and their history. She was the director of the Bureau of National Minorities in the Polish Ministry of Art and Culture (1989–1994), and the vice-director of

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(1994–2002). Since 2003, she has been the Director of the

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s department in Narodowe Centrum Kultury (National Center of Culture). She was in charge of coordinating the Polish-Ukrainian youth exchange. Author of publications in Tygodnik Powszechny and Więzi, among others. In 2014, she co-founded and was a member of the Civic Committee for Solidarity with Ukraine (KOSzU). Berdychowska is also a member of the Civic Committee of the Solidarity with Ukraine (KOSzU).

Awards

Order of Princess Olga The Order of Princess Olga () is a Ukraine, Ukrainian civil decoration, featuring Olga of Kiev and bestowed to women for "personal merits in state, production, scientific, educational, cultural, charity and other spheres of social activities, fo ...

, 3rd class (Ukraine, 2009) * Antonovych prize (2010) *

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, Officer's Cross (2012)

Works

"Juszczenko", ''Tygodnik Powszechny'', Nr 18, 6 May 2001

References

1967 births Living people Polish women journalists Ukrainianists Officers of the Order of Polonia Restituta Recipients of the Order of Princess Olga, 3rd class John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin alumni People associated with Kultura (magazine) {{Poland-writer-stub