Resident

Katarzyna Boni
From 3 August to 13 September 2022

Fondation Jan Michalski © Tonatiuh Ambrosetti

Fondation Jan Michalski © Tonatiuh Ambrosetti

Biography

Katarzyna Boni, born in 1982, is a Polish writer and reporter. She graduated in cultural studies at the University of Warsaw as well as from the Polska Szkoła Reportażu (Polish School of Reportage). She specializes in writing about Asia, where she spent over seven years working in Japan, China, Cambodia, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia. She is a co-author of Kontener – a book about Syrian refugees in Jordan, written together with Wojciech Tochman (Agora, 2014) – and she is the author of Ganbare!: Workshops on Dying (Open Letter, 2021) on loss and grief in post-tsunami Japan. She also writes for different Polish magazines, mainly about the climate crisis.