I think what we witness on the Polish-Belorussian border is a war — a strange, new kind of war with new forms of violence.
Julia Fiedorczuk is a writer, poet, translator, researcher and a practitioner of ecocriticism. Her work foregrounds the relationship between human beings and their planetary environment. She is affiliated at the Institute of English Studies at Warsaw University, and co-founded the School of Ecopoetics at Warsaw’s Institute of Reportage. She has published essays, novels and short story collections, as well as six volumes of poetry. The latest of those, Psalmy, was awarded the Wisława Szymborska Prize, Poland’s most prestigious prize for poetry. Fiedorczuk’s most recent novel, Pod Słońcem (Under the Sun) is set in Podlasie, close to the Polish-Belorussian border. Her writings have been translated into over 20 languages.
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