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Walesa's daughter sues publisher of biography

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Walesa's daughter sues publisher of biography

Lech Walesa's daughter, Anna Domińska, is filing a suit against Arcana, the publisher of Paweł Zyzak's book, Lech Wałęsa. Idea and History. She has filed the suit in a Kraków court, and is also trying to stop any further distribution of the book.

Zyzak's book was originally his masters thesis at Jagiellonian University, and was published after he successfully defended it. It is a biography of Lech Wałęsa, and its release earlier this year unleashed fierce criticism and controversy. One of the main reasons for that is that Zyzak based some of his controversial statements about Wałęsa on anonymous sources.

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