The Nike Award is the most important literary award of the year. This year it was awarded for the 22nd time. Who was the winner?
What is the Nike Award?
The Polish literary award that honors the author of the book of the year. Awarded in Poland since 1997. The main assumption of this award is the promotion of Polish contemporary literature with an emphasis on the literary genre of the novel. The award is funded by Gazeta Wyborcza together with the Agora Foundation.
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22nd award gala
On October 7, in Warsaw, in the building of the University of Warsaw Library, the twenty-second gala of the Nike literary award was held. Among the seven nominated authors where you could find such names as: Jerzy Kronhold, Wojciech Bonowicz, Anna Bikont, Mikołaj Grynberg, Ewa Lipska and Paweł Sołtys, Marcin Wicha won for the book entitled Stuff I didn't throw away.
Marcin Wicha is the winner of the Nike award
When giving the main information, which every literature lover was waiting for on October 7.10, we could hear the words of the chairman of the jury, Marek Zalewski, which sounded as follows: "We are rewarding a writer who writes about tenderness, which we are ashamed of every day. And he does it in such a way that we know there is nothing to be ashamed of. It talks about the death of someone close to you. He writes about complex matters in simple sentences.
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Marcin Wicha
The author of the book himself was very surprised and after his reaction it could be concluded that he is a really modest person who writes and creates with passion. Congratulations on your victory and wish you further successes, which are very important for the writer, on the scale of the Nike literary award.
