Nike Award
Nike Award | |
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![]() 2005 Nike Award ceremony with former Polish president Aleksander Kwaśniewski | |
Awarded for | best book of a single living author writing in the Polish language published the previous year |
Country | Poland |
Presented by | Gazeta Wyborcza and Agora Foundation |
Reward(s) | PLN 100,000 ($25,000) |
First awarded | 1997 |
The Nike Literary Award (Polish: Nagroda Literacka „Nike", pronounced [ˈnikɛ]) is a literary prize awarded each year for the best book of a single living author writing in Polish and published the previous year. It is widely considered the most important award for Polish literature.[1] Established in 1997 and funded by Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland's second largest daily paper, and the consulting company NICOM, it is conferred annually in October. 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 referring to the Greek goddess Nike, designed by the prominent Polish sculptor Kazimierz Gustaw Zemła, and a cash prize of currently PLN 100,000 (ca. $25,000).
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 the audience and jury have converged only occasionally (2000, 2001, 2004, 2015, 2018, 2019 and 2021). Two laureates of the award have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature: Czesław Miłosz (1980) and Olga Tokarczuk (2018). Tokarczuk and Wiesław Myśliwski are the only individuals to date to have received the Nike Award twice.
Laureates
[edit]Title and details of English translation stated where available.
Jury award
[edit]Year | Picture | Author | Title | English title | Genre(s) | Ref. |
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2023 | Zyta Rudzka | ![]() |
Ten się śmieje kto ma zęby | Only Those with Teeth Can Smile | Novel | |
2022 | Jerzy Jarniewicz | Mondo Cane | Mondo Cane | Poetry | [2] | |
2021 | Zbigniew Rokita | ![]() |
Kajś. Opowieść o Górnym Śląsku | Kajś: A Tale of Upper Silesia | Reportage | [3] |
2020 | Radek Rak | ![]() |
Baśń o wężowym sercu | The Snake Heart Fairy Tale | Fantasy novel | [4] |
2019 | Mariusz Szczygieł | ![]() |
Nie ma | No There | Reportage | [5] |
2018 | Marcin Wicha | ![]() |
Rzeczy, których nie wyrzuciłem | Things I Didn't Throw Out | Collection of essays | [6] |
2017 | Cezary Łazarewicz | ![]() |
Żeby nie było śladów. Sprawa Grzegorza Przemyka | So There'll Be No Traces. Grzegorz Przemyk's Case | Reportage | [7] |
2016 | Bronka Nowicka | – | Nakarmić kamień | To Feed a Stone | Poetry | [8][9] |
2015 | Olga Tokarczuk | ![]() |
Księgi Jakubowe | The Books of Jacob | Novel | [10] |
2014 | Karol Modzelewski | ![]() |
Zajeździmy kobyłę historii. Wyznania poobijanego jeźdźca | We'll Ride the Mare of History to the Ground: Confessions of a Bruised Rider | Autobiography | [11][12] |
2013 | Joanna Bator | ![]() |
Ciemno, prawie noc | Dark, Almost Night | Novel | [13] |
2012 | Marek Bieńczyk | Książka twarzy | Book of Faces | Collection of essays | [14] | |
2011 | Marian Pilot | ![]() |
Pióropusz | Plume | Novel | [15] |
2010 | Tadeusz Słobodzianek | – | Nasza klasa | Our Class | Play | [16] |
2009 | Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki | ![]() |
Piosenka o zależnościach i uzależnieniach | A Song of Dependencies and Addictions | Poetry | [17] |
2008 | Olga Tokarczuk | ![]() |
Bieguni | Flights | Novel | [18] |
2007 | Wiesław Myśliwski | Traktat o łuskaniu fasoli | Treatise on Shelling Beans | Novel | [19] | |
2006 | Dorota Masłowska | ![]() |
Paw królowej | The Queen's Peacock | Novel | [20] |
2005 | Andrzej Stasiuk | ![]() |
Jadąc do Babadag | Travelling to Babadag | Novel | [21] |
2004 | Wojciech Kuczok | ![]() |
Gnój | Muck | Novel | [22] |
2003 | Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz | Zachód słońca w Milanówku | Sunset in Milanówek | Poetry | [23] | |
2002 | Joanna Olczak-Roniker | W ogrodzie pamięci | In the Garden of Memory | Novel | [24] | |
2001 | Jerzy Pilch | ![]() |
Pod Mocnym Aniołem | The Strong Angel Inn | Novel | [25] |
2000 | Tadeusz Różewicz | Matka odchodzi | Mother Is Leaving | Poetry | [26] | |
1999 | Stanisław Barańczak | ![]() |
Z chirurgiczną precyzją | Surgical Precision | Poetry | [27] |
1998 | Czesław Miłosz | ![]() |
Piesek przydrożny | Road-side Dog | Poetry | [28] |
1997 | Wiesław Myśliwski | Widnokrąg | Horizon | Novel | [29] |
Audience award
[edit]Year | Author | Title | English title | Genre(s) |
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2023 | Grzegorz Piątek | Gdynia obiecana. Miasto, modernizm, modernizacja 1920-1939 | Gdynia Promised: City, Modernism, Modernization 1920-1939 | Reportage[30] |
2022 | Joanna Ostrowska | Oni. Homoseksualiści w czasie II wojny światowej | Them. Homosexuals in WWII | Reportage[31] |
2021 | Zbigniew Rokita | Kajś. Opowieść o Górnym Śląsku | Kajś. A Tale of Upper Silesia | Reportage |
2020 | Joanna Gierak-Onoszko | 27 śmierci Toby'ego Obeda | 27 Deaths of Toby Obed | Collection of reportages |
2019 | Mariusz Szczygieł | Nie ma | No There | Reportage |
2018 | Marcin Wicha | Rzeczy, których nie wyrzuciłem | The Things I Didn't Throw Away | Collection of essays |
2017 | Stanisław Łubieński | Dwanaście srok za ogon | The Birds They Sang | Collection of essays |
2016 | Magdalena Grzebałkowska | 1945. Wojna i pokój | 1945. War and Peace | Reportage |
2015 | Olga Tokarczuk | Księgi Jakubowe | The Books of Jacob | Novel |
2014 | Ignacy Karpowicz | Ości | Bones | Novel |
2013 | Szczepan Twardoch | Morfina | Morphine | Novel[32][33] |
2012 | Andrzej Franaszek | Miłosz: biografia | Miłosz: A Biography | Biography |
2011 | Sławomir Mrożek | Dziennik 1962–1969 | Journals 1962–1969 | Diary |
2010 | Magdalena Grochowska | Jerzy Giedroyc. Do Polski ze snu | Jerzy Giedroyc. To Poland from Dream | Biography |
2009 | Krzysztof Varga | Gulasz z turula | Turul Goulash | Collection of essays |
2008 | Olga Tokarczuk | Bieguni | Flights | Novel |
2007 | Mariusz Szczygieł | Gottland | Gottland | Collection of reportages |
2006 | Wisława Szymborska | Dwukropek | Colon | Poetry |
2005 | Ryszard Kapuściński | Podróże z Herodotem | Journeys with Herodotus | Autobiography |
2004 | Wojciech Kuczok | Gnój | Muck | Novel |
2003 | Dorota Masłowska | Wojna polsko-ruska pod flagą biało-czerwoną | Snow White and Russian Red | Novel |
2002 | Olga Tokarczuk | Gra na wielu bębenkach | Playing on Many Drums | Collection of short stories |
2001 | Jerzy Pilch | Pod Mocnym Aniołem | The Strong Angel Inn | Novel |
2000 | Tadeusz Różewicz | Matka odchodzi | Mother Is Leaving | Poetry |
1999 | Olga Tokarczuk | Dom dzienny, dom nocny | House of Day, House of Night | Novel |
1998 | Zygmunt Kubiak | Mitologia Greków i Rzymian | The Mythology of the Greeks and Romans | History |
1997 | Olga Tokarczuk | Prawiek i inne czasy | Primeval and Other Times | Novel |
Most nominations (1997–2022)
[edit]- 10 nominations – Jerzy Pilch
- 9 nominations – Andrzej Stasiuk
- 7 nominations – Tadeusz Różewicz
- 6 nominations – Julia Hartwig, Ewa Lipska, Olga Tokarczuk
- 5 nominations – Jacek Dehnel, Piotr Matywiecki, Czesław Miłosz, Jacek Podsiadło, Ryszard Przybylski, Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz, Magdalena Tulli
- 4 nominations – Marek Bieńczyk, Michał Głowiński, Henryk Grynberg, Ignacy Karpowicz, Urszula Kozioł, Marcin Świetlicki, Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki, Krzysztof Varga, Adam Zagajewski
- 3 nominations – Justyna Bargielska, Joanna Bator, Wojciech Bonowicz, Sylwia Chutnik, Włodzimierz Kowalewski, Zbigniew Kruszyński, Dorota Masłowska, Wiesław Myśliwski, Joanna Olczak-Roniker, Tomasz Różycki, Małgorzata Szejnert, Wisława Szymborska, Adam Wiedemann, Michał Witkowski
See also
[edit]- Polish literature
- List of Polish writers
- List of Polish poets
- Angelus Award
- Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award
- Ryszard Kapuściński Award for Literary Reportage
References
[edit]- ^ "NAGRODA LITERACKA NIKE 2022". tvn24.pl (in Polish). Retrieved December 14, 2022.
- ^ Dariusz Nowacki (October 12, 2022). "The Peculiar Standing of Poetry". culture.pl. Retrieved October 5, 2023.
- ^ "Writer Zbigniew Rokita wins top Polish literary award". polskieradio.pl. October 4, 2021. Retrieved October 5, 2023.
- ^ "Radek Rak wins the 2020 Nike Literary Award". tvn24.pl. October 5, 2020. Retrieved October 6, 2023.
- ^ "Writer Mariusz Szczygieł scoops top Polish literary award". polskieradio.pl. October 6, 2019. Retrieved October 6, 2023.
- ^ "Marcin Wicha wins prestigious Nike literary award for his short stories collection". tvn24.pl. October 9, 2018. Retrieved October 6, 2023.
- ^ Matt Day (August 23, 2018). "Writers in arms: TFN talks to the award-winning leading lights of Polish literature Ewa Winnicka and Cezary Łazarewicz". thefirstnews.com. Retrieved October 6, 2023.
- ^ "Bronka Nowicka". lit-across-frontiers.org. Retrieved October 6, 2023.
- ^ "Bronka Nowicka laureatką Nagrody Literackiej Nike". wp.pl (in Polish). October 2, 2016. Retrieved October 6, 2023.
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- ^ "The 2014 Nike Literary Award Goes to Karol Modzelewski". culture.pl. October 6, 2014. Retrieved October 6, 2023.
- ^ "Nagroda Nike 2014". Gazeta Wyborcza (in Polish). May 14, 2015. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
- ^ Tadeusz Sobolewski, Michał Wybieralski (October 6, 2013). "Nike 2013 dla Joanny Bator za książkę "Ciemno, prawie noc"". Gazeta Wyborcza (in Polish). Retrieved October 17, 2013.
- ^ "Poland's top literary award goes to essayist Marek Bieńczyk". thenews.pl. October 8, 2012. Retrieved October 6, 2023.
- ^ "Writer Marian Pilot Has Won the 2011 Nike Award". culture.pl. October 2, 2011. Retrieved October 6, 2023.
- ^ "Tadeusz Słobodzianek laureatem Nike". rmf24.pl (in Polish). October 3, 2010. Retrieved October 6, 2023.
- ^ Agnieszka Le Nart. "WHO'S WHO AND WHY:EUGENIUSZ TKACZYSZYN-DYCKI". biweekly.pl. Retrieved October 6, 2023.
- ^ Jarosław Klejnocki (October 6, 2008). "Nike 2008 dla Olgi Tokarczuk". polityka.pl (in Polish). Retrieved October 6, 2023.
- ^ "Nagroda NIKE dla Wiesława Myśliwskiego". onet.pl (in Polish). October 7, 2007. Retrieved October 6, 2023.
- ^ "Nagroda Nike dla Doroty Masłowskiej". interia.pl (in Polish). October 1, 2006. Retrieved October 6, 2023.
- ^ "Andrzej Stasiuk laureatem Literackiej Nagrody NIKE". rmf24.pl (in Polish). October 2, 2005. Retrieved October 6, 2023.
- ^ "Wojciech Kuczok laureatem nagrody NIKE". onet.pl (in Polish). October 4, 2004. Retrieved October 6, 2023.
- ^ "Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz laureatem Nike". onet.pl (in Polish). October 5, 2003. Retrieved October 6, 2023.
- ^ Roman Pawłowski (October 6, 2022). "Nagroda Literacka "Nike" 2002 - Joanna Olczak-Ronikier za "W ogrodzie pamięci"". wyborcza.pl (in Polish). Retrieved October 6, 2023.
- ^ "Nagroda Literacka "Nike" 2001 - Jerzy Pilch za "Pod Mocnym Aniołem"". wyborcza.pl (in Polish). September 30, 2001. Retrieved October 6, 2023.
- ^ Mariusz Cieślik (September 4, 2000). "Tadeusz Różewicz laureatem Nagrody Literackiej Nike 2000". wyborcza.pl (in Polish). Retrieved October 6, 2023.
- ^ "Nagroda Literacka "Nike" 1999 - Stanisław Barańczak za "Chirurgiczną precyzję"". wyborcza.pl (in Polish). September 4, 1999. Retrieved October 6, 2023.
- ^ Szymon Hołownia (June 27, 1998). "Nagroda Literacka "Nike" 1998 - Czesław Miłosz za "Pieska przydrożnego"". wyborcza.pl (in Polish). Retrieved October 6, 2023.
- ^ "Nagroda Literacka "Nike" 1997 - Wiesław Myśliwski za "Widnokrąg"". wyborcza.pl (in Polish). October 4, 1997. Retrieved October 6, 2023.
- ^ "Writer Zyta Rudzka wins top Polish literary award". polskieradio.pl. October 2, 2023. Retrieved October 4, 2023.
- ^ "Silenced Memories: LGBT People in WWII". przekroj.pl. Retrieved October 2, 2022.
- ^ Bialystokonline.pl: Kultura i Rozrywka – Nike 2014. Nagroda Czytelników dla Ignacego Karpowicza
- ^ Wyborcza.pl: NIKE 2014: Śmierć, seks, rodzinne kłamstwa, sztuka latania... Fragmenty wszystkich nominowanych książek
External links
[edit]- Some information in English
- Official site (Polish)