Gallery – Paul Polansky

Author. Historian. Human Rights Activist

Paul Polansky

I am an American human rights activist, journalist, historian, poet and cultural anthropologist, working to bring to public attention to the continuing genocide faced by the Roma. Author of 40+ books, award-winning documentaries and hundreds of articles and reports.

2004 Recipient of Weimar Human Rights Award for which he was unanimously selected following his nomination by Nobel Laureate for Literature Günter Grass.
2005 Finalist for the prestigious Canadian John Humphrey Freedom Award.
2013 Nominated for a CNN Hero Award.
2014 Recipient of the Italian Flussidiversi Poetry Festival Award of Caorle, Venice, resulting in one of his poems being permanently inscribed onto the city's seawall in honor of his human rights work.
2015 Recipient of both the Alfonso Gatto National Italian Poetry Award, (Salerno, Italy); and The Italian National Human Rights Award by the Fondazione Romani Italia for his work with Roma in Italy and Kosovo.

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