The Beata Pawlak Memorial Award (Polish: ''Nagroda im. Beaty Pawlak'') is an annual Polish

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founded in 2003 and awarded to authors publishing their works in the

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whose subject-matter concerns the themes of

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and civilisation. The award was created to honour the last wish of a Polish award-winning writer and journalist Beata Pawlak who died in the

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. The winner of the award is selected by a jury which has included such members as

Adam Szostkiewicz Adam Dawid Szostkiewicz (; born 22 June 1952) is a Polish author, commentator on religion and politics, journalist and translator. Biography Szostkiewicz was born in Częstochowa. He studied Polish language and literature in the early seventies ...

, Wojciech Tochman, Olga Stanisławska, and

Wojciech Jagielski Wojciech Jagielski (born 12 September 1960) is a Polish journalist and author. He has won acclaim for his reportage from conflict zones in the Transcaucasus, the Caucasus, Central Asia and Africa. He worked for the leading Polish newspaper Gazeta ...

Laureates

* 2020 - Agnieszka Pajączkowska for ''Wędrowny Zakład Fotograficzny'' ("Wandering Photographic Institute") * 2019 - Mirosław Wlekły for ''Raban! O kościele nie z tej ziemi'' ('Raban! About a Church out of This World") * 2018 - Ewa Wanat for ''Deutsche nasz. Reportaże berlińskie'' ("Our Deutsche. Berlin Reports") * 2017 -

Krzysztof Kopczyński Krzysztof Kopczyński is a Polish film-maker and author. He was born in 1959 in Warsaw. He is also a doctor of humanities, lecturer at the University of Warsaw, and an expert of the Polish Film Institute. He has written and produced a number of ...

and Anna Sajewicz for ''Dybuk. Opowieść o nieważności świata'' ("The Dybbuk: A Tale of the Insignificance of the World") * 2016 - Jarosław Mikołajewski for ''Wielki przypływ'' and Dariusz Rosiak for ''Ziarno i krew. Podróż śladami bliskowschodnich chrześcijan'' * 2015 - Konrad Piskała for ''Dryland'' * 2014 - Mateusz Janiszewski for ''Dom nad rzeką Loes'' ("House on the Loes River") and Adam Lach for ''Stigma'' * 2013 - Wojciech Górecki for ''Abchazja'' ("Abkhazia") * 2012 - Bartosz Jastrzębski and Jędrzej Morawiecki for ''Krasnojarsk Zero'' * 2011 - Witold Szabłowski for ''Zabójca z miasta moreli. Reportaże z Turcji'' ("The Assassin From the Apricot City. Reportages From Turkey") * 2010 - Marek Kęskrawiec for ''Czwarty pożar Teheranu'' ("The Fourth Fire of Tehran") * 2009 - Jacek Milewski for ''Dym się rozwiewa'' and Max Cegielski for ''Oko świata. Od Konstantynopola do Stambułu'' ("The Eye of the World. From Constantinople to Istanbul") * 2008 -

Artur Domosławski Artur Domosławski (born 1967) is a Polish journalist and writer. Life Artur Domosławski graduated from the Theatre Studies Department at the Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw. Between 1991 and 2011, he worked ...

for ''Zbuntowana Ameryka'' ("Rebellious America") and Cezary Michalski for ''Listy z Ameryki'' ("Letters from America") * 2007 -

Mariusz Szczygieł Mariusz Adam Szczygieł (Polish pronunciation: ; born 5 September 1966 Złotoryja, Poland) is a Polish journalist and writer. He is the winner of the 2009 European Book Prize for ''Gottland'' and the 2019 Nike Award, the most important prize in ...

for ''Gottland''{{cite news , url=https://en.conradfestival.pl/a/1318,mariusz-szczygiel-as-the-journalist-of-the-year-according-to-press , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805070905/http://en.conradfestival.pl/a/1318,mariusz-szczygiel-as-the-journalist-of-the-year-according-to-press , url-status=dead , archive-date=August 5, 2020 , title=Mariusz Szczygieł as the Journalist of the Year according to Press , access-date=2017-11-18 * 2006 - Beata Pawlikowska for ''Blondynka na Kubie. Na tropach prawdy i Ernesta Che Guevary'' and Paweł Smoleński for ''Izrael już nie frunie'' * 2005 -

Joanna Bator Joanna Bator (born 2 February 1968) is a Polish novelist, journalist, feminist and academic. She specializes in cultural anthropology and gender studies. She is the recipient of the 2013 Nike Award. Life and career She was born to Jewish paren ...

for ''Japoński wachlarz'' ("The Japanese Fan") * 2004 - Piotr Kłodkowski for ''Doskonały smak orientu'' ("Exquisite Taste of the Orient") and

Andrzej Stasiuk Andrzej Stasiuk (pronounced: ; born 25 September 1960 in Warsaw, Poland) is one of the most successful and internationally acclaimed contemporary Polish writers, journalists and literary critics. He is best known for his travel literature and ess ...

for ''Jadąc do Babadag'' ("Travelling to Babadag") * 2003 - Anna Fostakowska for ''Spuść oczy, płacz''

References

Polish literary awards