The Jan Długosz Award (Polish: ''Nagroda im. Jana Długosza'') is a Polish

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which has been presented annually since 1998 during the

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Book Fair. It is named in honor of Polish

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Jan Długosz Jan Długosz (; 1 December 1415 – 19 May 1480), also known in Latin as Johannes Longinus, was a Polish priest, chronicler, diplomat, soldier, and secretary to Bishop Zbigniew Oleśnicki of Kraków. He is considered Poland's first histo ...

(1415–1480) and its aim is to popularize works in the field of

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written by Polish authors and published the previous year which make significant contributions to the advancement of science and cultural enrichment. The award recognizes books not only targeted to the professional, scientific circles but also to the general reader, which is intended to make them the subject of a broader public debate. The winners of the award receive cash prizes and a statuette designed by sculptor Bronisław Chromy.

List of Laureates

{, class="wikitable sortable" ! Year ! Author ! Title , - , 2021 , Zbigniew Mentzel , ''Kołakowski. Czytanie świata. Biografia'' (" Kołakowski. Reading the World: A Biography") , - , 2020 , Michał Roch Kaczmarczyk , ''Aporia wolności. Krytyka teorii społecznej'' ("Aporia of Freedom. A Critique of Social Theory") , - , 2019 , Joanna Tokarska-Bakir , ''Pod klątwą. Społeczny portret pogromu kieleckiego'' ("Under the Curse. A Social Portrait of the

Kielce Pogrom The Kielce pogrom was an outbreak of violence toward the Jewish community centre's gathering of refugees in the city of Kielce, Poland on 4 July 1946 by Polish soldiers, police officers, and civiliansMonika Bobako , ''Islamofobia jako technologia władzy. Studium z antropologii politycznej'' ("Islamophobia as a Technology of Power. A Study in Political Anthropology") , - , 2017 , Przemysław Czapliński{{cite news, url=https://krakow.wyborcza.pl/krakow/7,44425,22571537,przemyslaw-czaplinski-laureatem-nagrody-im-jana-dlugosza.html , title=Przemysław Czapliński laureatem Nagrody im. Jana Długosza , access-date=2017-11-19 , ''Poruszona mapa'' ("A Moved Map") , - , 2016 , Anna Machcewicz , ''Bunt. Strajki w Trójmieście. Sierpień 1980'' ("Rebellion: Strikes in the Tri-City, August 1980") , - , 2015 ,

Michał Głowiński Michał Głowiński (born 4 November 1934, in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish philologist, historian and literary theorist specializing in the history of Polish literature. Głowiński is a professor of humanities and member of the Polish Academy ...

, ''Rozmaitości interpretacyjne. Trzydzieści szkiców'' ("Interpretational Varieties. Thirty Sketches") , - , 2014 , Grzegorz Niziołek , ''Polski teatr Zagłady'' ("The Polish Theatre of the

Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...

") , - , 2013 ,

Jerzy Holzer Jerzy Stanisław Holzer (24 August 1930, Warsaw - 14 January 2015) was a Polish historian. He specialized in the Polish history, German history, and the Polish-German relations. In 1950-1954 he studied history at the University of Warsaw. From ...

, ''Europa Zimnej Wojny'' (" Cold War Europe") , - , 2012 ,

Andrzej Friszke Andrzej Friszke (born 29 August 1956 in Olsztyn) is a Polish historian and lecturer. He specializes in the history of communist Poland and the democratic opposition to the communist regime. Friszke graduated in 1979 from the Department of Histor ...

, ''Czas KOR-u. Jacek Kuroń a geneza Solidarności'' ("The Time of KOR.

Jacek Kuroń Jacek Jan Kuroń (; 3 March 1934 – 17 June 2004) was one of the democratic leaders of opposition in the People's Republic of Poland. He was widely known as the "godfather of the Polish opposition," not unlike Václav Havel in Czechoslovakia. Ku ...

and the Origin of the Solidarity") , - , 2011 , Hanna Świda-Ziemba , ''Młodzież PRL. Portrety pokoleń w kontekście historii'' ("The Youth of PRL - Portraits of Generations from a Historical Perspective") , - , 2010 , Mieczysław Nurek , ''Gorycz zwycięstwa'' ("The Bitterness of Victory") , - , 2009 , Teresa Chylińska , ''Karol Szymanowski i jego epoka'' (" Karol Szymanowski and His Era") , - , 2008 , Stanisław Mossakowski , ''Kaplica Zygmuntowska 1515–1533'' (" Sigismund's Chapel 1515–1533") , - , 2007 , Jerzy Strzelczyk , ''Zapomniane narody Europy'' ("The Forgotten Nations of Europe") , - , 2006 , Piotr Piotrowski , ''Awangarda w cieniu Jałty. Sztuka w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej w latach 1945–1989'' , - , 2005 , Mirosława Marody and Anna Giza-Poleszczuk , ''Przemiany więzi społecznych'' ("Changes in Social Relations") , - , 2004 , Wacław Hryniewicz , ''Nadzieja uczy inaczej'' ("Hope Teaches Differently") , - , 2003 , Teresa Kostkiewiczowa , ''Polski wiek świateł. Obszary swoistości'' , - , 2002 , Jan Błoński , '' Witkacy'' , - , 2001 , Stefan Swieżawski , ''Dzieje europejskiej filozofii klasycznej'' ("History of European

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") , - , 2000 , Eugeniusz Cezary Król , ''Propaganda i indoktrynacja narodowego socjalizmu w Niemczech 1919–1945'' ("Propaganda and Indoctrination of the

National Socialism Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Naz ...

in Germany 1919–1945") , - , 1999 , Mieczysław Tomaszewski , ''Chopin. Człowiek, Dzieło, Rezonans'' (" Chopin. The Man, His Work and Its Resonance") , - , 1998 , Barbara Skarga , ''Tożsamość i różnica. Eseje metafizyczne'' ("Identity and Difference. Metaphysical Essays")

References

Science writing awards Polish literary awards Awards established in 1998

List of Laureates

See also

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