The Wisława Szymborska Award is a Polish annual international
literature prize
A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author.
Organizations
Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. Ma ...
presented by the Wisława Szymborska Foundation. It was established in 2013, and was named in honour of the
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
-winning poet
Wisława Szymborska
Maria Wisława Anna SzymborskaVioletta Szosta gazeta.pl, 9 February 2012. ostęp 2012-02-11 (; 2 July 1923 – 1 February 2012) was a Polish poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Prowent ( ...
(1923–2012).
It is awarded to authors of best poetry works published the previous year. Both books written in
Polish
Polish may refer to:
* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
* Poles
Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, w ...
and translated into Polish are eligible for the award and can be submitted by the authors themselves, publishing houses, cultural institutions as well as members of the award committee. The award carries a cash prize of
PLN 200,000 ($50,000) for the winner and
PLN 50,000 ($15,000) for the translator, which makes it one of the most valued literary prizes in Poland.
Laureates
2021
Nominations:
*Anna Adamowicz for ''Animalia''
*Justyna Bargielska for ''Dziecko z darów''
*Jakub Kornhauser for ''Dziewięć dni w ścianie''
*Joanna Mueller and Joanna Łańcucka for ''Waruj''
*Michał Sobol for ''Wieść''
Winner: Anna Adamowicz
2020
Nominations:
*Genowefa Jakubowska-Fijałkowska for ''Rośliny mięsożerne''
*Adam Kaczanowski for ''Zabawne i zbawienne''
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Tomasz Różycki for ''Kapitan X''
*Mirka Szychowiak for ''Uwaga, obiekt monitorowany''
*Urszula Zajączkowska for ''Piach''
Winner: Genowefa Jakubowska-Fijałkowska
2019
Nominations:
*Kamila Janiak for ''Wiersze przeciwko ludzkości'' ("Poems Against Humanity")
*Piotr Janicki for ''Psia książka'' ("Dog's Book")
*Marzanna Bogumiła Kielar for ''Nawigacje'' ("Navigations")
*Robert Król for ''Polka''
*Marta Podgórnik for ''Mordercze ballady'' ("The Murderous Ballades")
Winner: Marta Podgórnik
2018
Nominations:
*Wojciech Bonowicz for ''Druga ręka''
*Julia Fiedorczuk for ''Psalmy. 2014–2017''
*Natalia Malek for ''Kord''
*Marta Podgórnik for ''Zimna książka'' ("The Cold Book")
*Ilona Witkowska for ''Lucyfer zwycięża''
Winner: Julia Fiedorczuk
Best translation winner: Linn Hansen for ''Przejdź do historii'' (Sweden)
2017
Nominations:
*Tomasz Bąk for ''
eepgeneration''
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Jerzy Kronhold for ''Skok w dal'' ("Long Jump")
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Tomasz Różycki for ''Litery'' ("Letters")
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Marcin Sendecki for ''W''
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Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki for ''Nie dam ci siebie w żadnej postaci''
Winner: Marcin Sendecki
2016
Nominations:
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Jakub Kornhauser for ''Drożdżownia'' ("The Yeast Factory")
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Edward Pasewicz for ''Och, Mitochondria''
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Marta Podgórnik for ''Zawsze'' ("Always")
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Joanna Roszak for ''Tego dnia'' ("On That Day")
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Marcin Świetlicki
Marcin Świetlicki (born 24 December 1961) is a Polish poet, writer, and musician. He lives and works in Kraków, Poland.
Świetlicki was born in Piaski, near Lublin, Poland. He studied Polish Literature at the Jagiellonian University in Krak ...
for ''Delta Dietla'' ("Dietl's Delta")
Winner: Jakub Kornhauser
2015
Nominations:
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Roman Honet for ''Świat był mój'' ("The World Was Mine")
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Jakobe Mansztajn for ''Studium przypadku'' ("The Case Study")
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Mirosław Mrozek for ''Horyzont zdarzeń'' ("The Horizon of Events")
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Jacek Podsiadło for ''Przez sen'' ("Through a Dream")
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Maciej Robert for ''Księga meldunkowa'' ("The Registration Book")
Winner: ''ex aequo'' Roman Honet and
Jacek Podsiadło
2014
Nominations:
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Wojciech Bonowicz for ''Echa'' ("Echoes")
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Jacek Dehnel
Jacek Maria Dehnel (born 1 May 1980 in Gdańsk, Poland) is a Polish poet, writer, translator and painter.
Life and work
He graduated from the Stefan Żeromski High School No. 5 in Gdańsk, where he excelled in Humanities. Dehnel studied at t ...
for ''Języki obce'' ("Foreign Languages")
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Mariusz Grzebalski for ''W innych okolicznościach'' ("In Other Circumstances")
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Julia Hartwig for ''Zapisane''
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Michał Sobol for ''Pulsary'' ("Pulsars")
Winner:
Julia Hartwig
2013
Nominations:
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Justyna Bargielska for ''Bach for my baby''
*Krystyna Dąbrowska for ''Białe krzesła'' ("White Chairs")
*Łukasz Jarosz for ''Pełna krew'' ("Full Blood")
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Krzysztof Karasek for ''Dziennik rozbitka'' ("Journals of a Castaway")
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Jan Polkowski
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Acronyms
* Jackson, Mississippi (Amtrak station), US, Amtrak station code JAN
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for ''Głosy'' ("Voices")
Winner: ''ex aequo'' Krystyna Dąbrowska and Łukasz Jarosz
See also
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Nike Award
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Silesius Poetry Award
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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 Latin, ...
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List of Polish-language poets
References
First book awards
Polish literary awards
Awards established in 2013
2013 establishments in Poland