Ilona
Wiśniewska
She comes from Prószków near Opole. Since 2010 she has been living in the Norwegian Arctic. Polonist and phototechnician by education. Author of reportage books Białe. Zimna wyspa Spitsbergen (White. The Cold Island of Spitsbergen, 2014), Hen. Na północy Norwegii (Far Away. In the North of Norway, 2016) and Lud. Z grenlandzkiej wyspy (People. From a Greenlandic Island, Czarne publishing house, 2018). The book Białe. Zimna wyspa Spitsbergen was nominated to the Newsweek’s Teresa Torańska award and brought her the title of the Woman of the Year 2015. The book Hen. Na północy Norwegii was awarded with the Traveler National Geographic award in the travel book category 2017, and was nominated to the Beata Pawlak Award.
pic. Birger Amundsen