The Kościelski Award is an independent Polish

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, awarded since 1962 by the

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-based Kościelski Foundation. The jury issues annual awards to "promising writers" 40 years of age or younger. Past winners have included

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, Zbigniew Herbert,

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, Bolesław Taborski,

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, Wojciech Karpiński,

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, Stefan Chwin,

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, Paweł Huelle,

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, Tomasz Różycki,

Jacek Dehnel Jacek Maria Dehnel (born 1 May 1980 in Gdańsk, Poland) is a Polish people, 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 ...

, Maciej Płaza, Jolanta Stefko, Mikołaj Łoziński and most recently

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. This is the second oldest independent award in Polish literature after the Award of the Union of Polish Writers Abroad that was established in London in 1951.

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