Urszula Honek (born 1987) is a Polish poet and writer. Her debut short story collection, White Nights, was nominated for the 2024 International Booker Prize.
Honek was born in Racławice near Gorlice but now lives in Kraków. She won a number of Polish national poetry competitions. In particular, in 2013, she won the Rainer Maria Rilke Poetry Competition. In 2016, Honek published Sporysz, her first poetry book, which was the finalist of the K.I. Gałczyński Orfeusz Poetry Award. In 2018, her second poetry collection, Pod wezwaniem, was also the finalist of the K.I. Gałczyński Orfeusz Poetry Award, as well as her third poetry collection, Zimowanie, in 2021. Zimowanie, which translates as "Wintering", consists of very short, often one-line poems.[1]
Honek's short story collection, White Nights, consists of thirteen short stories, which describe various misfortunes happening to people of the group which grew together in the same village in Polish Carpathians. The prose of the book was characterized as "poetic".[2] It was translated to English by Kate Webster.[3]
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- ^ "White Nights". MTO Press.
- ^ Warnke, Agnieszka (2024). "Urszula Honek". culture.pl (in Polish).