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The Belarusian writer will spend the next two months working in Krakow and participating in the city's literary life. The writer published her debut prose novel Я и есть революция [‘I am the Revolution’] (Пфляўмбаўм) in 2021. She left for Ukraine in the same year and moved to Poland in May 2024. She is currently working on an auto-fiction novel about the experience of forced emigration and exile and life in a frontline city. In her texts, she explores themes of trauma, loss, emigration, political resistance, loneliness and interpersonal relationships.
The matron of the residence is Janina Katz (1939-2013), a Krakow-based writer, poet and translator. In 1969, she was forced to leave Poland in an aftermath of an anti-Semitic campaign. She spent the rest of her life in Copenhagen. She has won many prestigious literary awards in Denmark. She has translated works by Wisława Szymborska, Zbigniew Herbert, Sławomir Mrożek and other artists into Danish.
The Janina Katz residency programme is held under the patronage of the municipal project Krakowianki, Open Krakow and Krakow for Equality. The initiative is part of Kraków UNESCO City of Literature’s year-long programme of literary residencies.