Katarzyna Boni

Katarzyna Boni was selected for the 2025 Shortlist with Mothers at the End of the World.

Katarzyna Boni is a Polish writer and reporter who writes about trauma, grief, and hope. She writes about war refugees, people traumatized by natural disasters, and those caught in the middle of the climate crisis. For several years she has been writing about the climate crisis and how it edges us into a new reality. She investigates how we can deal with the anxiety that the crisis has generated, and how we can find ways to live in this new world. In her recent work she makes space for non-humans and their perspective. She believes that becoming less anthropocentric can help us to deal with the Anthropocene. She is an author of three non-fiction books for adults, one children’s book (fiction) about the ocean and its creatures, many essays, and several short stories. Her work has received several national awards and national and international nominations, including nominations for the European Press Prize.