Olga Stanisławska
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 Polish journalist, reporter, and translator of works into Polish including Gene Wolfe’s “Free Live Free”. She studied English and American literature in Warsaw and in Aix-en-Provence. She worked with the monthly magazine “Kino” and “Gazeta Wyborcza”, where she published two cycles of reportages, written during her long, lonely journeys through Africa (1993-94 and 1995). She is interested in Islam, and spent nearly a year in Bosnia, and travelled the route of the crusaders through the Near East. In 2002 she received the prestigious Kościelski Foundation Award for her debut book “Rondo de Gaulle”. This book was the fruit of a year spent on the road across Africa from Casablanca to Kinshasa; the author takes up the topic of slavery in Mauretania, the drama of the Tuareg people, and confects in Chad, but above all the text is a record of continued encounters with other people – “different” people. Wojciech Giełżyński wrote about “Rondo de Gaulle’a”, “She has been bitten by Africa. Before her there was Ryszard Kapuściński, and before him Joseph Conrad. None of those who have been bitten by Africa worked it out with as much flavour as Olga Stanisławska.”
She will be a guest of Roman Kurkiewicz at the meeting entitled “Inny świat, inny język” (Another World, Another Language).
Picture: J-G Potocki
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