{"id":18339,"date":"2026-06-19T11:43:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T09:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/literackisopot.pl\/?post_type=people&#038;p=18339"},"modified":"2026-07-07T17:20:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:20:04","slug":"anka-wandzel","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/literackisopot.pl\/en\/people\/anka-wandzel\/","title":{"rendered":"Anka Wandzel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Writer, essayist, researcher, interviewer, and mother of two. She is the author of a debut collection of essays entitled <em>Sztuka Przetrwania<\/em>, which was published by Karakter in 2025. She is a contributor to <em>Dwutygodnik<\/em>, <em>Miesi\u0119cznik Znak<\/em>, OKO.press, <em>Przekr\u00f3j<\/em>, <em>\u0141adne Bebe<\/em>, <em>Kukbuk<\/em>, and <em>Zwyk\u0142e \u017bycie<\/em>. In 2024, she received a literature scholarship from the City of Warsaw and participated in the \u2018Common Field\u2019 residency at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw. Her writing covers topics such as the environment, the water crisis, survival, climate catastrophe, invisible care work, the inner workings of Polish contemporary art, and global and local social inequalities. She also writes about urban thickets, waters, and weeds. In the age of climate change, she seeks hope amongst the bushes. She is a member of MOST, an urban cooperative farm in Siekierki, where she is trying to cultivate the future alongside others. She runs the \u2018Sztuka przetrwania\u2019 newsletter. She has participated in numerous author talks and panel discussions at venues including the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Rondo Sztuki in Katowice, Gda\u0144sk City of Literature, Dom Literatury in Bydgoszcz, the Czuby Po\u0142udniowe Neighbourhood Cultural Centre in Lublin, the Public Library in Konin, the \u2018City with a River\u2019 Literary Festival in Przemy\u015bl, and the \u2018Nad Wod\u0105\u2019 Mazovian Heritage Forum in Warsaw. Previously, she worked at the Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture (Kr\u00f3likarnia), undertook her PhD at the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw, and was a Gessel Foundation scholarship holder at the Zach\u0119ta \u2013 National Gallery of Art. She began collaborating with Goyki 3 in 2025 as part of the \u2018good vibes\u2019 exhibition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">pic. from the guest&#8217;s archive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":18338,"template":"","class_list":["post-18339","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Anka Wandzel | Literacki Sopot<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Anka Wandzel - guest of the 15th edition of the Sopot by The Book Festival (Festiwal Literacki Sopot).\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/literackisopot.pl\/en\/people\/anka-wandzel\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Anka Wandzel | Literacki Sopot\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Anka Wandzel - 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