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Polish literature
Polish literature is the literary tradition of Poland. Most Polish literature has been written in the Polish language, though other languages, used in Poland over the centuries, have also contributed to Polish literary traditions, including Yiddish, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, German and...
. Established in 1997 and funded by Gazeta Wyborcza
Gazeta Wyborcza
Gazeta Wyborcza is a leading Polish newspaper. It covers the gamut of political, international and general news. Like all the Polish newspapers, it is printed on compact-sized paper, and is published by the multimedia corporation Agora SA...
, Poland
Poland
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's second largest daily paper, and the consulting company NICOM, it is conferred annually in October for the best book of a single living author writing in Polish
Polish language
Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...
published the previous year. It is open for nominees from all literary genres, including non-fiction essays and autobiographies. Each year, a nine-member jury selects the laureate in a three-stage process. Twenty official nominees are accepted in May, out of which seven finalists are declared in September. The final decision does not take place until the day of the award ceremony in October. The award consists of a statuette designed by the prominent Polish sculptor Gustaw Zemła and a prize money of currently 100,000 PLN.
In addition to the main jury award, there is an audience award based on the outcome of a vote on the seven official finalists conducted by Gazeta Wyborcza. The verdicts of audience and jury converged only occasionally (2000, 2001 and 2004).
Jury award
- 2010 - Tadeusz Słobodzianek, Nasza Klasa
- 2009 - Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-DyckiEugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-DyckiEugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki is an award-winning Polish poet.Born in Wólka Krowicka near Lubaczów, he is an author of nine volumes of poems and some texts for the magazine Kresy. He is a past winner of the Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna Award, the Barbara Sadowska Award, Polish-German Days of Literature...
, Piosenka o zaleznosciach i uzaleznieniach - 2008 - Olga TokarczukOlga TokarczukOlga Tokarczuk is one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful Polish writers of her generation, particularly noted for the hallmark mythical tone of her writing. She trained as a psychologist at the University of Warsaw. She has published a collection of poems, three novels,...
, Bieguni - 2007 - Wiesław Myśliwski, Traktat o łuskaniu fasoli
- 2006 - Dorota Masłowska, Paw królowej ("The Queen's Peacock")
- 2005 - Andrzej StasiukAndrzej StasiukAndrzej Stasiuk is one of the most successful and internationally acclaimed contemporary Polish writers, journalists and literary critics...
, Jadąc do Babadag ("Travelling to Babadag") - 2004 - Wojciech KuczokWojciech KuczokWojciech Kuczok - Polish novelist, poet, and screenwriter.His novel Gnój won the prestigious Nike Award in 2004. The book was filmed as Pręgi, with his script, and the movie won the Gdynia Polish Film Festival, also in 2004.The author is strongly connected with his home region of...
, Gnój ("Muck") - 2003 - Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz, Zachód słonca w Milanówku ("Sunset in Milanówek")
- 2002 - Joanna Olczak-RonikerJoanna Olczak-RonikerJoanna Olczak-Roniker is a Polish writer and scenarist, co-founder of the Piwnica pod Baranami cabaret in Cracow.In 2002 her memoir about her family's history W ogrodzie pamięci won the Nike Award.-References:...
, W ogrodzie pamięci ("In the garden of memory") - 2001 - Jerzy PilchJerzy PilchJerzy Pilch is one of the most important contemporary Polish writers and journalists. Critics have compared Pilch's style to Witold Gombrowicz, Milan Kundera, or Bohumil Hrabal....
, Pod Mocnym Aniołem ("The Strong Angel Inn") - 2000 - Tadeusz RóżewiczTadeusz RózewiczTadeusz Różewicz is a Polish poet and writer.Różewicz belongs to the first generation born and educated after Poland regained its independence in 1918. His youthful poems were published in 1938...
, Matka odchodzi ("Mother is leaving") - 1999 - Stanisław Barańczak, Chirurgiczna precyzja ("Surgical precision").
- 1998 - Czesław Miłosz, Piesek przydrożny (English edition: Road-side dog, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1998, ISBN 0-374-25129-0)
- 1997 - Wiesław Myśliwski for Widnokrąg ("Horizon")
Audience award
- 2010 - Magdaleny Grochowskiej, Jerzy Giedroyc. Do Polski ze snu
- 2009 – Krzysztof Varga, Gulasz z turula
- 2008 - Olga TokarczukOlga TokarczukOlga Tokarczuk is one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful Polish writers of her generation, particularly noted for the hallmark mythical tone of her writing. She trained as a psychologist at the University of Warsaw. She has published a collection of poems, three novels,...
for "Bieguni" - 2007 - Mariusz Szczygieł for Gottland
- 2006 - Wisława Szymborska for Dwukropek ("Colon")
- 2005 - Ryszard KapuścińskiRyszard KapuscinskiRyszard Kapuściński was a Polish journalist and writer whose dispatches in book form brought him a global reputation. Also a photographer and poet, he was born in Pińsknow in Belarusin the Kresy Wschodnie or eastern borderlands of the second Polish Republic, into poverty: he would say later that...
for Podróże z Herodotem ("Journeys with Herodot") - 2004 - Wojciech KuczokWojciech KuczokWojciech Kuczok - Polish novelist, poet, and screenwriter.His novel Gnój won the prestigious Nike Award in 2004. The book was filmed as Pręgi, with his script, and the movie won the Gdynia Polish Film Festival, also in 2004.The author is strongly connected with his home region of...
for Gnój ("Muck") - 2003 - Dorota Masłowska for Wojna polsko-ruska pod flagą biało-czerwoną (English edition: Snow White and Russian Red, New York: Grove Press/Black Cat, 2005, ISBN 0-8021-7001-3)
- 2002 - Olga TokarczukOlga TokarczukOlga Tokarczuk is one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful Polish writers of her generation, particularly noted for the hallmark mythical tone of her writing. She trained as a psychologist at the University of Warsaw. She has published a collection of poems, three novels,...
for Gra na wielu bębenkach ("Playing on many drums") - 2001 - awarded jointly to Jerzy PilchJerzy PilchJerzy Pilch is one of the most important contemporary Polish writers and journalists. Critics have compared Pilch's style to Witold Gombrowicz, Milan Kundera, or Bohumil Hrabal....
for Pod Mocnym Aniołem ("The Strong Angel Inn"), and Jan T. GrossJan T. GrossJan Tomasz Gross is a Polish-American historian and sociologist. He is the Norman B. Tomlinson '16 and '48 Professor of War and Society and Professor of History at Princeton University.- Biography :Jan T...
for Sąsiedzi (English edition: Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-14-200240-2) - 2000 - Tadeusz RóżewiczTadeusz RózewiczTadeusz Różewicz is a Polish poet and writer.Różewicz belongs to the first generation born and educated after Poland regained its independence in 1918. His youthful poems were published in 1938...
for Matka odchodzi ("Mother is leaving") - 1999 - Olga TokarczukOlga TokarczukOlga Tokarczuk is one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful Polish writers of her generation, particularly noted for the hallmark mythical tone of her writing. She trained as a psychologist at the University of Warsaw. She has published a collection of poems, three novels,...
for Dom dzienny, dom nocny (English edition: House of Day, House of Night. Writings from an unbound Europe, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-8101-1892-0) - 1998 - Zygmunt KubiakZygmunt KubiakZygmunt Kubiak was a Polish writer, essayist, translator, propagator of the antique culture, and professor at the University of Warsaw.His book Mitologia Greków i Rzymian was shortlisted for the Nike Award in 1998....
for Mitologia Greków i Rzymian" ("The Mythology of the Greeks and Romans") - 1997 - Olga TokarczukOlga TokarczukOlga Tokarczuk is one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful Polish writers of her generation, particularly noted for the hallmark mythical tone of her writing. She trained as a psychologist at the University of Warsaw. She has published a collection of poems, three novels,...
for Prawiek i inne czasy ("Primeval and other times")
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