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Večery s reportéry: Mihotání. Na konci Grónska
Evenings with Reporters: Flicker. At the end of Greenland
Event by: 1. prezidentská knihovna, Polský institut v Praze, Absynt - reportážní literatura
Location: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 129/13, Praha 1
About event
How is life in the northernmost settlements of Greenland? An evening with Polish reporter Ilona Wiśniewska about her new book and her fascination with the North.
Siorapaluk and Qaanaaq have less and less permanent residents. They face a lack of work, problems with medical care or the availability of school for the remaining children. Journalists are mainly interested in the melting ice, but despite global warming, it is only possible to get to them in winter by plane and twice a summer by boat. They wouldn't survive without hunting bears and seals. Ilona Wiśniewska tried out the local life for several months, trying to perceive and listen carefully. "The rest of the world needs this way of thinking, self-restraint, silence," he says in his book.
Ilona Wiśniewska lives with her husband, photographer Birgeren Amundsen, in Tromsø, Norway, and has dedicated several of her books to the Nordic countries. For the Flickering report. At the end of Greenland, which was published this year in the translation of Michala Benešová by the Absynt publishing house, won the prestigious Grand Press award.
Jáchym Topol will speak with the author.
The discussion will take place in Polish and Czech with simultaneous interpretation.
Evenings with reporters event cycle takes place in cooperation with the Polish Institute in Prague.
Siorapaluk and Qaanaaq have less and less permanent residents. They face a lack of work, problems with medical care or the availability of school for the remaining children. Journalists are mainly interested in the melting ice, but despite global warming, it is only possible to get to them in winter by plane and twice a summer by boat. They wouldn't survive without hunting bears and seals. Ilona Wiśniewska tried out the local life for several months, trying to perceive and listen carefully. "The rest of the world needs this way of thinking, self-restraint, silence," he says in his book.
Ilona Wiśniewska lives with her husband, photographer Birgeren Amundsen, in Tromsø, Norway, and has dedicated several of her books to the Nordic countries. For the Flickering report. At the end of Greenland, which was published this year in the translation of Michala Benešová by the Absynt publishing house, won the prestigious Grand Press award.
Jáchym Topol will speak with the author.
The discussion will take place in Polish and Czech with simultaneous interpretation.
Evenings with reporters event cycle takes place in cooperation with the Polish Institute in Prague.