Karolina Sulej-Kubik

Karolina Sulej, 1985
non-fiction writer, reporter, podcaster, curator, freelance journalist working with “Wysokie Obcasy”, “Pismo”, “Vogue”. Doctoral student at the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw, where she works in the Holocaust Remembrance Research Group, as part of which she co-wrote the book “Ślady Holokaustu w imaginarium kultury polskiej” [“Traces of the Holocaust in the imaginarium of Polish culture”] (2017). Author of a collection of reports on Polish fashion after 1990 – “Modni. Od Arkadiusa do Zienia” [“Fashionable. From Arkadius to Zień”] (2015), and non-fiction books about the United States – “Wszyscy jesteśmy dziwni. Opowieści z Coney Island” [We are all strange. Tales from Coney Island] (2018), for which she was nominated for the Teresa Torańska award. She is the editor and co-author of the book “Reason and Flair. A century of fashion in Poland” (published by Osnova and IAM) on a hundred years of fashion history in Poland in anthropological and journalistic point of view – a book in English with foreign distribution. Her book „Rzeczy osobiste. Rola ubrań w obozach koncentracyjnych” [ Personal things. A story about clothes in concentration camps ] was nominated to several non-fiction and history awards ( finalist of prestigious international Kapuściński Award, Grand Press finalist, Morawski award finalist ) and was awarded the Teresa Torańska Award for excellent and ethical journalism. „Rzeczy..” Were followed by another sister book covering the subjects of the first book and expanding them – „Historie osobiste. O ludziach I rzeczach w czasie wojny” [ Personal histories. About people and things during the war ]She has podcasts about the role of clothing in everyday life in polish public radio Trójka and a show about clothes “Mody Polskie” on polish TVP KULTURA . For years, she has also hosted meetings with authors, debates, and literary panels. She published „Ciałaczki”, a reportage book devoted to women who changed Polish culture about women’s bodies after 1990. She is a curator – responsible e.g for an exhibition about the role of women in Warsaw Uprising „Podróż bohaterek. Kobiety w powstaniu” and exhibition about Lodz ghetto in Centralne Muzeum Włókiennictwa. She is now working on a documentary about polish humanitarian aid for Ukrainian refugees in Warsaw. An activist in community-building centered „Kraina” Foundation where she uses fashion and art to build resilience and as tools of psychosocial help for migrants and refugees ( @fundacjakraina)