Beata Pawlak Award Explained
| Beata Pawlak Memorial Award |
| Awarded For: | best books written in Polish dealing with the topics of religion, culture and society |
| Presenter: | Stefan Batory Foundation |
| Country: | Poland |
| Year: | 2003 |
The Beata Pawlak Memorial Award (Polish: Nagroda im. Beaty Pawlak) is an annual Polish literary prize founded in 2003 and awarded to authors publishing their works in the Polish language whose subject-matter concerns the themes of religion, culture and civilisation. The award was created to honour the last wish of a Polish award-winning writer and journalist Beata Pawlak who died in the 2002 Bali bombings in Indonesia.[1] [2]
The winner of the award is selected by a jury which has included such members as Adam Szostkiewicz, Wojciech Tochman, Olga Stanisławska, and Wojciech Jagielski.
Laureates
- 2020 - Agnieszka Pajączkowska for Wędrowny Zakład Fotograficzny ("Wandering Photographic Institute")
- 2019 - Mirosław Wlekły for Raban! O kościele nie z tej ziemi ('Raban! About a Church out of This World")
- 2018 - Ewa Wanat for Deutsche nasz. Reportaże berlińskie ("Our Deutsche. Berlin Reports")
- 2017 - Krzysztof Kopczyński and Anna Sajewicz for Dybuk. Opowieść o nieważności świata ("The Dybbuk: A Tale of the Insignificance of the World")
- 2016 - Jarosław Mikołajewski for Wielki przypływ[3] and Dariusz Rosiak for Ziarno i krew. Podróż śladami bliskowschodnich chrześcijan
- 2015 - Konrad Piskała for Dryland
- 2014 - Mateusz Janiszewski for Dom nad rzeką Loes ("House on the Loes River") and Adam Lach for Stigma
- 2013 - Wojciech Górecki for Abchazja ("Abkhazia")
- 2012 - Bartosz Jastrzębski and Jędrzej Morawiecki for Krasnojarsk Zero
- 2011 - Witold Szabłowski for Zabójca z miasta moreli. Reportaże z Turcji ("The Assassin From the Apricot City. Reportages From Turkey")[4] [5]
- 2010 - Marek Kęskrawiec for Czwarty pożar Teheranu ("The Fourth Fire of Tehran")
- 2009 - Jacek Milewski for Dym się rozwiewa and Max Cegielski for Oko świata. Od Konstantynopola do Stambułu ("The Eye of the World. From Constantinople to Istanbul")
- 2008 - Artur Domosławski for Zbuntowana Ameryka ("Rebellious America") and Cezary Michalski for Listy z Ameryki ("Letters from America")[6]
- 2007 - Mariusz Szczygieł for Gottland[7]
- 2006 - Beata Pawlikowska for Blondynka na Kubie. Na tropach prawdy i Ernesta Che Guevary and Paweł Smoleński for Izrael już nie frunie
- 2005 - Joanna Bator for Japoński wachlarz ("The Japanese Fan")
- 2004 - Piotr Kłodkowski for Doskonały smak orientu ("Exquisite Taste of the Orient") and Andrzej Stasiuk for Jadąc do Babadag ("Travelling to Babadag")
- 2003 - Anna Fostakowska for Spuść oczy, płacz
References
- News: About Beata Pawlak . 2017-11-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150622112212/http://www.batory.org.pl/en/donor_advised_funds/beata_pawlak_fund/articles/about_beata_pawlak . 2015-06-22 . dead .
- News: Beata Pawlak . 2017-11-18.
- News: Meeting with Jarosław Mikołajewski . https://web.archive.org/web/20200920063122/http://www.polska1.pl/en/dzialania/aktualnosci/meeting_with_jaroslaw_mikolajewski/ . dead . September 20, 2020 . 2017-11-18 .
- News: The award of Beata Pawlak for Witold Szablowski . 2017-11-18.
- News: The Assassin from Apricot City . 2017-11-18 .
- News: Artur Domosławski . 2017-11-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170318005619/http://www.bookinstitute.pl/autorzy-detal,literatura-polska,3831,domoslawski-artur.html . 2017-03-18 . dead .
- News: Mariusz Szczygieł as the Journalist of the Year according to Press . https://web.archive.org/web/20200805070905/http://en.conradfestival.pl/a/1318,mariusz-szczygiel-as-the-journalist-of-the-year-according-to-press . dead . August 5, 2020 . 2017-11-18 .
