Polish journalist and writer. She was born on January 1, 1944 in Wołkowysk, Belarus, which was then part of the occupied Second Polish Republic. She graduated from the Warsaw University's Department of Law. She worked as a journalist for the popular Polish weekly „Kultura” in 1970s. In 1990s Torańska hosted two television programs for Telewizja Polska (TVP): socio-political Teraz Wy (Now You) and historical Powtórka z PRL-u (Recap from the PRL). Torańska wrote the screenplay for a documentary film Dworzec gdański (Gdańsk Main Station) directed by Maria Zmarz-Kozanowicz. The movie, which premiered in 2007, told a story of the Polish Jews forced to leave Poland after the political crisis of March 1968. At present she's a contributor to Poland's second-largest daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza conducting interviews with the leading Polish political figures.