Urszula Honek

Urszula Honek (born 1987) is a Polish poet and writer of fiction. Her debut short story collection, White Nights, was longlisted for the 2024 International Booker Prize and shortlisted for the 2024 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation.

Biography Honek was born in Racławice near Gorlice in 1987. She lives in Kraków.

Career Honek has won a number of Polish national poetry competitions, including, in 2013, the Rainer Maria Rilke Poetry Competition. In 2016, she published Sporysz, her first poetry book, which was a finalist in the K.I. Gałczyński Orfeusz Poetry Award. In 2018, her second poetry collection, Pod wezwaniem, was also a finalist in the K.I. Gałczyński Orfeusz Poetry Award, as was her third poetry collection, Zimowanie, in 2021. Zimowanie, which translates as "Wintering", consists of very short, often one-line poems. It was translated to English by Kate Webster. The English translation was longlisted for the International Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation.

Books Sporysz (Wojewódzka Biblioteka Publiczna i Centrum Animacji Kultury, Poznań, 2015) . Pod wezwaniem (Wojewódzka Biblioteka Publiczna i Centrum Animacji Kultury, Poznań, 2018) . Zimowanie (Wojewódzka Biblioteka Publiczna i Centrum Animacji Kultury, Poznań, 2021) . Białe noce (White Nights, Wydawnictwo Czarne, Wołowiec, 2020) . White Nights (Two Lines, 2025) Poltergeist (Wydawnictwo Warstwy, Wrocław, 2024) ISBN 978-83-67186-89-6.