Skip to content

Paul Polansky

Author. Historian. Human Rights Activist

    Leave your message here. All fields are obligatory.

    • Home
    • CV
    • Research
    • Interviews
    • Books
    • Bibliography
    • Reviews
    • Gallery
    • News
    • Contact

    About Me

    Profile
    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.

    Cluster bombing project
    News

    Cluster bombing project

    12/11/202009/01/2021

    Read more
    Publications

    Lety Novel Implicates Foreign Affairs Minister

    27/09/201520/10/2020 No Comments

    Author Polansky says Schwarzenberg’s family solicited labor camp By Markéta Hulpachová Staff Writer, The Prague Post May 21st, 2008 issue ​Polansky learned of the atrocities of Lety while tracing his roots. What does the foreign affairs minister have in common with a hunchback who died 40 years ago? American writer and historian Paul Polansky says […]

    Read more
    Lectures

    The Romani Holocaust -Lecture at Helsinki University – 8 April 2010

    08/04/201020/10/2020 No Comments

    Ladies and Gentlemen, Before I begin my lecture on the Romani Holocaust, I would like to clear up a few points. The first point I’d like to make is that not all European Gypsies are Roma. The major tribes are Roma, Kali, Manush, Ashkali, Egyptians and Sinti. And like the Roma, all have sub castes. […]

    Read more

    Recent Posts

    • Cluster bombing project 12/11/2020
    • Lety Novel Implicates Foreign Affairs Minister 27/09/2015
    • The Romani Holocaust -Lecture at Helsinki University – 8 April 2010 08/04/2010

    Award-Winning “Gypsy Blood“ Documentary

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gXxHFTHSz8

    Awards & Recognitions

    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.
    • Bibliography
    • Biography
    • Books
    • Contact
    • CURRICULUM VITAE
    • Filmed Interviews
    • Gallery
    • Literary Reviews
    • News
    • Poetry Readings
    • Research

    Copyright PAUL POLANSKY © 2020 All Rights Reserved.