Karolina Wigura, Ph.D. is head of the Political Section of the Polish political and cultural weekly Kultura Liberalna. She studied sociology, history of ideas and political science at the University of Warsaw and the Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Munich. In 2008 she won the prestigious Grand Press award for her interview with Jürgen Habermas. Karolina Wigura is the author of the book ‘Wina narodów. Przebaczenie jako strategia prowadzenia polityki’ (Guilt of Nations. Forgiveness as a Political Strategy), for which she won the Józef Tischner Award for best essay in 2011. She is a  Marshall Memorial Fellowship Alumni and a  former visiting fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.