Gian Franco Svidercoschi is a Polish journalist and Vaticanologist. He served as deputy director of L’Osservatore Romano, the newspaper of the Holy See, and collaborated with Pope John Paul II on Gift and Mystery and with Stanislaw Dziwisz, the Archbishop of Krakow and the former personal secretary of Pope John Paul II, on A Life With Karol. He is the author of Stories of Karol.