Evenings With Reporters: Flicker: From the Edge of Greenland
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: October 22, 2024, 19:00 – 21:00
What is life like in the northerly most settlements in Greenland? An evening with the Polish reporter Ilona Wiśniewska exploring her latest book and fascination with the north.
Fewer and fewer people are living permanently in Siorapaluk and Qaanaaq. They face a lack of jobs and have problems with medical care and access to school for the children who are left. Journalists are mainly interested in the melting ice, but despite global warming they can only be reached by plane in winter and twice a summer by boat. Without hunting bears and seals, they wouldn't survive. Ilona Wiśniewska experienced local life for several months, doing her best to listen and listen carefully. “The rest of the world needs the local way of thinking, self-limitation, silence,” she says in the book.
Ilona Wiśniewska lives with her husband, the photographer Birger Amundsen, in Tromsø, Norway, and has dedicated several books to the Nordic countries. Her book Flicker: From the Edge of Greenland, which came out in Czech this year on the Abysnt imprint, translated by Michala Benešová, won the prestigious Grand Press award.
The author will be interviewed by Jáchym Topol.
The discussion will be in Polish and Czech with simultaneous interpretation.
The series of talks Evenings with Reporters is held in cooperation with the Polish Institute in Prague.