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Adam Szostkiewicz born 22 June 1952 in Częstochowa, is a Polish author, journalist, commentator on religion and politics, author, and translator.

Biography
He studied Polish language and literature in the early seventies at Jagiellonian University. He was active in the Polish political opposition against the authoritarian rule, joined he Solidarity movement for human and workers’ rights as well as democracy and independence from the USSR.

He was imprisoned after Martial law in Poland against Solidarity was imposed by a Military Junta in December 1981. After his release six months later, he remained part of the Solidarity underground. In 1988, he joined Tygodnik Powszechny, a liberal Catholic weekly in Kraków as Political Editor. He was spokesman for the 1990 presidential campaign of Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki. In the early nineties he was a producer in the BBC Polish Section. After the death of the longtime editor of Tygodnik Powszechny, Jerzy Turowicz, he joined the staff of Polityka in Warsaw, where he writes about the Roman Catholic Church in Poland and worldwide and other religions in the wider contexts of culture and society, as well as on international relations and literature. Occasionally his work appears in openDemocracy.net. He is married to a Polish Radio journalist and editor, and they have two grown daughters.