Reportage II: Filip Springer and Katarzyna Boni - Encounters with Polish Literature - S2E1

Contemporary Reportage with Beth Holmgren (Duke University)

Continuing our discussion of the Polish school of reportage or creative non-fiction from Episode 10 of “Encounters with Polish Literature” Beth Holmgren and David Goldfarb look at two contemporary works of reportage, History of a Disappearance: The Story of a Forgotten Polish Town by Filip Springer, and Katarzyna Boni’s Ganbare! Workshops on Dying. Both authors were born in 1982. Filip Springer is a photographer with an interest in Socialist architecture and the aesthetics of the “ugly” that led him to writing reportage. History of a Disappearance was a 2012 finalist for the NIKE prize, Poland’s highest literary award. Katarzyna Boni went through a more traditional journalistic training at the Institut Reportażu in Warsaw, working as a journalist in Southeast Asia and Japan, and coauthoring a book with Wojciech Tochman, Kontener (Container) about Syrian refugees in Jordan. Ganbare! won the 2017 Gryfia Award, a Polish prize for women writers.

Encounters with Polish Literature is a new video series for anyone interested in literature and the culture of books and reading. Each month, host David A. Goldfarb presents a new topic in conversation with an expert on that author or book or movement in Polish literature.

Learn more about this episode, and see the biography of the guest on the Polish Cultural Institute New York's website. The linked page includes a bibliography of works in English by Katarzyna Boni, Stasia Budzisz, and Filip Springer:
https://instytutpolski.pl/newyork/202...

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