Press & Media

Surviving Katyń: Stalin’s Massacre and the Search for Truth

  • Surviving Katyń awarded Honourable Mention in the Polish Government’s History Competition 2022. Read more…
  • Surviving Katyń wins second prize at the Witold Pilecki International Book Prize 2022. Read more…
  • Lies Matter: Jane Rogoyska writes in The Author magazine about the challenges of writing about historical events through fiction and non-fiction. Read more…
  • Once read, this story will not be easily forgotten. Five-star review for Surviving Katyń in All About History magazine. Read more…
  • Surviving Katyń longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2022. Read more…
  • Surviving Katyń wins Columbia School of Journalism’s prestigious Mark Lynton History Prize 2022.  Read more…
  • Mark Lynton History Prize 2022 shortlist announced. Read more…
  • Jane Rogoyska writes in The Big Issue magazine about her work researching recent Polish history. Read more…
  • This is a grim story, thoroughly researched and brilliantly told. Geoffrey Alderman reviews Surviving Katyń in the Times Higher Education Supplement. Read more…
  • The hall of mirrors is long, and we are still far from escaping it. Uilleam Blacker reviews Surviving Katyń in the Times Literary Supplement. Read more…
  • With the empathy of a novelist and the precision of a historian, Rogoyska unfolds the story of Katyń. Review of Surviving Katyń in The American Conservative.  Read more…
  • Surviving Katyń feels remarkably modern not only because the narrative extends to the present day, but because the arguments about the truth of Katyń recall the fake news and conspiracy theories that proliferate today. Shelf Awareness reviews Surviving Katyń. Read more…
  • A riveting account of the lead-up to and aftermath of the liquidation by Josef Stalin and Lavrentiy Beria of 22,000 Polish officers captured by the Soviet Union in the 1939 carve-up of Poland with the Nazis. Michael McDowell reviews Surviving Katyń in the Irish Times Read more…
  • Surviving Katyń is a history book that makes the blood run cold. Review on Five Books. Read more…
  • Autorka brytyjskiej książki o Katyniu: tą zbrodnią wciąż można manipulować, istotne przypominanie prawdy. Jane Rogoyska interviewed by  Bartłomiej Niedziński for PAP Read more…
  • “If you could travel back in time, what year would you like to visit?” Jane Rogoyska interviewed by Peter Moore on the Travels Through Time podcast. Listen here…
  • Jane Rogoyska interviewed about The Katyń Massacre on the BBC History Extra podcast. Listen here…
  • Kirkus review of Surviving Katyń: A work of significant moral clarity and elegant precision. Read more…
  • Jane Rogoyska writes about the Katyń Massacre for Polish periodical Wszystko, co najważniejsze. Read more [firewall]…

Kozłowski

  • A beautiful and immensely readable novel. Caroline Wyatt reviews Kozłowski for the European Literature Network. Read more… 
  • Kozłowski longlisted for 2020 Desmond Elliott Prize. Read more…
  • RLF Writers Aloud: Jane Rogoyska talks to Frances Byrnes about her writing life. Listen here…
  • Firstlight interviews Jane Rogoyska about her novel Kozłowski and her research into the Katyń Massacre. Watch here…

Gerda Taro: Inventing Robert Capa

  • Capturing the Spanish Civil War – Jane Rogoyska on Gerda Taro and Robert Capa in Warfare podcast by History Hit Listen here…
  • The world-famous couple that changed photography forever – Jane Rogoyska interviewed about Gerda Taro and Robert Capa on Dream Teams, BBC Reel Watch here… 
  • Gerda Taro: ‘deathbed photo’ of one of the world’s first war photographers found, Giles Tremlett, The Guardian. Read more… 
  • Taro Readings by Richard Baxell. The leading British specialist on the International Brigades joins Jane Rogoyska to reflect on the ‘deathbed photo’ of Gerda Taro. Read more…
  • A deftly illustrated mix of biography and critical reappraisal. Review of Gerda Taro: inventing Robert Capa by Sean O’Hagan, The Guardian. Read more…
  • A remarkable testimonial to two young photographers whose extraordinary talent it was to convey war at its most immediate, intimate and brutal. Caroline Moorhead reviews Gerda Taro: Inventing Robert Capa in Literary Review. Read more…
  • Gerda Taro: The forgotten photojournalist killed in action, Jane Rogoyska interviewed by Alison Gee for BBC News. Read more…
  • Gerda Taro’s dramatic life story told in a new book, Daily Mail. Read more… 
  • Who was Gerda Taro? The Daily Mirror reflects on Taro’s life in the light of a new Google Doodle. Read more…
  • Kevin Rabalais reviews Gerda Taro: Inventing Robert Capa for The Monthly. Read more…
  • A Life Less Ordinary: The First Female War Correspondents. Jane Rogoyska joins Patrick Garrett and Kate Brooks in a discussion at The Frontline Club chaired by The Times’ first Defence Editor, Deborah Haynes. Watch here…
  • International Brigades Memorial Trust Len Crome Lecture 2014, ‘Taking Sides’. Jane Rogoyska speaks about Gerda Taro’s involvement in the Spanish Civil War. Watch here…