Urszula Honek in conversation with Roos van Rijswijk

Urszula Honek (Poland) was born in Racławice and writes both prose and poetry. She has received numerous awards for her work.
At the Crossing Border Festival, she will speak about her debut: the beautiful short story collection Witte nachten.

In Witte nachten, Urszula Honek writes with an incredibly rich palette of language, color, and style about the longing, sorrowful, and loving people of a sleepy village at the foot of the Polish Beskids. Set in a remote, hilly forest landscape, she gives voice to these lives through thirteen interconnected stories.
In one story, friends who have known each other since school search for work. In another, a girl unknowingly helps her grandmother as she dies. In yet another, a young unmarried woman yearns for more than life seems willing to offer.
Life in the village is marked by nameless fears rooted in the past, but also by friendship, empathy, and a deep connection to all living things.