Ganbare!: Workshops on Dying: Workshops on Dying - Paperback

by Katarzyna Boni (Author), Mark Ordon (Translator)

Oral history of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, and the Fukushima accident in a style resembling Svetlana Alexievich

Author Biography

Katarzyna Boni graduated in cultural studies at the University of Warsaw and in social psychology at the SWPS University, as well as from the Polska Szkola Reportażu (Polish School of Reportage). She publishes in travel magazines and the Duży Format magazine. Boni specializes in writing about Asia, where she spent over three 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.

Mark Ordon is a writer and translator based in Poznań, Poland. His work has appeared in the English edition of Przekrój magazine and The Thornfield Review, as well as academic publications commissioned by the Polish Academy of Sciences. His focus to date has been on short fiction and non-fiction, as well as translations of academic papers and lectures, such as On the Importance of Sadness, a lecture given by philosopher Tomasz Stawiszyński at A Night of Philosophy and Ideas in Brooklyn, New York in February 2020.