Olga Stanisławska

Writer, reporter, essayist, curator interested in the dynamics of multicultural societies in Europe, Africa or the Middle East, as well as colonial and decolonial mechanisms past and present. She received the Koscielski Foundation Prize for her book Rondo de Gaulle (2001). Among other things, she co-curated the exhibitions Nostalgia Made Real. Africa in Kazimierz Zagorski's Photography (Zachęta National Gallery of Art, 2005) and New World Region (Bunkier Sztuki, 2017). Together with Borys Lankosz, she directed a documentary on Muslims in France for Polish public television (2007). She has published in Gazeta Wyborcza, Tygodnik Powszechny, Polityka, OKO Press, among others. For many years she was a juror of the Ryszard Kapuscinski Prize for Literary Reportage, and then the Conrad Prize. She lives in Saint-Denis near Paris.