Jane Rogoyska

[2][4] Her Polish grandfather served in Intelligence during the 1910s-1920s and, as deputy director of the Bank of Poland at the beginning of World War II, fled with his family on a government train that helped take gold secretly out of the country.

[2][3] Her first book, Gerda Taro: Inventing Robert Capa (Jonathan Cape, 2013), was the first English-language biography of the German photojournalist who died, aged 26, while reporting on the Battle of Brunete during the Spanish Civil War in 1937.

[8][9] Rogoyska’s research into the Katyń Massacre also led to her first novel, Kozłowski (longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2020), and Still Here: A Polish Odyssey, which she wrote and presented for BBC Radio 4 in 2018.

Retrieved 9 May 2021. During her research on Katyń, Rogoyska discovered that her own great-uncle, Ludwik Rynkowski, was one of the victims of the massacre. Rogoyska has worked frequently with the UK’s leading charity for writers, the Royal Literary Fund, developing educational and promotional content for them and serving as a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at the University of Greenwich (2013-14), the Royal College of Music (2015-16), The School of Advanced Studies at the University of London (2016-17) and The Courtauld Institute (2023-24).

[10] She is a tutor of Narrative Non-Fiction on the Creative Writing Course at the Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge.