She started to read and write when she was less than four years old. At the age of five, she decided to become a writer and wrote her first story.
E. C. Laukoni
Written word has been part of her life since she can remember. Creating is her way of escaping the world and people. Creating is also the reason why she loves being among people and feels integrity with the world.
As she remarks, “it is a phenomenal feeling when I have an ordinary conversation in an ordinary place with ordinary people during an ordinary event and suddenly a story pops in my head… and this story carries me away to the world of imagination. And every piece of the reality takes on a new meaning, and everything around becomes extraordinary.”
And as long as her stories inspire, bring hope, make you wonder or evoke emotions, then she will continue writing. Comfortable sofa, a cup of coffee, a notebook and a fountain pen – that’s what she calls home.
“I think home is not necessarily the place of your birth, but the place you feel you belong with. No matter where I had lived, be it Poland, England, Australia or France, it felt like home and despite the differences in the culture, language, traditions and mentality, I found my place.
I believe it comes from within.”
Laukoni is a writer who finds the words; these words are here, a means, not an end.
They are a means to convey what the author has to say, her expressive distinctiveness in her writings. Each of the story constitutes a separate individuality, while revealing the psychological unity and uniqueness of her own person as a creator; the fragment of spiritual biography, bearing the beauty of style and her creative personality.
She takes you on a journey to experience the diversity in unity. While reading, you experience the message, the deeper meaning, the untold and unrevealed. It’s like you are here, living the stories and feeling the emotions. You smell the aromas, you taste the flavours, you hear the voices, and you see all the colours and shapes with your own eyes.
E.C. Laukoni was born and raised in Poland. Since her teenage years she has been fascinated by different cultures and languages, and was keen on discovering them through her own experience, be it reading books, meeting people, or travelling. She fell in love with Great Britain, Spain, Japan, and Germany- their people and cultures. Britain felt like home from the first time she visited, and she felt connected to the people, the culture, and the land. ‘It felt home, while being away from home,’ she remembers, ‘I might have lived there in my previous life’ Laukoni adds, smiling.
Then, in 2014, she moved to France, where she lives to this day. ‘It came rather as a surprise, I would never choose France to live in, to be honest. I was about to move to London, when my partner at the time convinced me to move in with him. I can’t say I was happy with that decision at the start, however, today, when I look at it from the perspective of ten years of living in France, I believe it was France that chose me.’
The influence of these countries can be noticed in her writing. These three cultures, their heritage and languages, as well as people – Poles, Brits, and French – with their particular mentality and traditions, influence her life and show up in her writing.
Laukoni’s mother recollects her daughter’s early childhood as full of writing: “She started to read and write when she was less than four years old. At the age of five, she decided to become a writer and wrote her first story. Then, aged about five, she used mostly rhymes when talking to others,” her mother recalls. “She would create poems and tell stories while queueing with me to buy food and other commodities, it was the time when we’d use ration stamps in Poland. Often, she would have a small audience listening to her stories and clapping. Her early school years were all about creating poetry and then, when she turned eleven or twelve, she founded her own school theatre and for about a couple of years was writing plays, directing and performing on stage in front of other pupils, teachers and parents. After that, sometime around her high school years, her writing became longer and more complex.” Laukoni’s mother remembers.
In the years of 2011-2013 she’d been attending the literary workshops of SPP in Dom Literatury in Warsaw, which gave her the confidence to not only write literary fiction, but also share it with others. Since then, the writing meetings became an inherent part of Laukoni’s life. She is an active member of several writing groups in Europe till this day.
Laukoni spends most of her time creating fictional worlds and talking to characters she brought to life through her stories. When she’s not making things up, she is editing manuscripts and mentoring those who dream of becoming a published author. She makes her home in France.