Angelus Award

The Angelus Central European Literature Award also known as Angelus Award (Polish: Nagroda Literacka Europy Środkowej Angelus) is a Polish international literary award established in 2006 and presented by the city of Wrocław, Lower Silesia. The award is given annually for best prose books written in or translated into the Polish language by a living author originating from Central Europe whose works "undertake themes most relevant to the present day, encourage reflection and deepen the knowledge of the world of other cultures."[1] The winners of the award receive a cash prize amounting to PLN 150,000 (€35,000) and a statuette designed by sculptor Ewa Rossano. Writers eligible for the award must come from Central European countries including Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine.[2]

Angelus Award
Awarded forbest prose works written in or translated into Polish by a Central European author
CountryPoland
Presented bythe city of Wrocław
Reward(s)PLN 150,000 (€35,000)
First awarded2006
Websiteangelus.com.pl

Members of the jury selecting the laureates of the award have included Ryszard Krynicki, Mykola Riabchuk, Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Stanisław Bereś, Julian Kornhauser, Irek Grin and Krzysztof Koelher.

List of Angelus Laureates
Year Name Country Title English title Translator(s)
2020 Goran Vojnović[3]  Slovenia Moja Jugosławia Yugoslavia, My Homeland Joanna Pomorska
2019 Georgi Gospodinov[4]  Bulgaria Fizyka smutku The Physics of Sorrow Magdalena Pytlak
2018 Maciej Płaza[5]  Poland Robinson w Bolechowie Robinson in Bolechów –
2017 Oleg Pavlov[6]  Russia Opowieści z ostatnich dni Tales From the Last Days Wiktor Dłuski
2016 Varujan Vosganian[7]  Romania Księga szeptów The Book of Whispers Joanna Kornaś-Warwas
2015 Serhiy Zhadan[8][9]  Ukraine Mezopotamia Mesopotamia Michał Petryk and Adam Pomorski
2014 Pavol Rankov[10][11]  Slovakia Zdarzyło się pierwszego września It Happened On September the First Tomasz Grabiński
2013 Oksana Zabuzhko[12][13]  Ukraine Muzeum porzuconych sektetów The Museum of Abandoned Secrets Katarzyna Kotyńska
2012 Miljenko Jergović[14][15]  Bosnia and Herzegovina Srda śpiewa o zmierzchu w Zielone Świątki Srda Sings At Dusk on Pentecost Magdalena Petryńska
2011 Svetlana Alexievich[16][17]  Belarus Wojna nie ma w sobie nic z kobiety The Unwomanly Face of War Jerzy Czech
2010 György Spiró[18]  Hungary Mesjasze Messiahs Elżbieta Cygielska
2009 Josef Škvorecký[19][20]  Czech Republic Przypadki inżyniera ludzkich dusz The Engineer of Human Souls Andrzej Jagodziński
2008 Péter Esterházy[21][22]  Hungary Harmonia cælestis Celestial Harmonies: A Novel Teresa Worowska
2007 Martin Pollack[23]  Austria Śmierć w bunkrze – opowieść o moim ojcu Dead Man in the Bunker: Discovering My Father Andrzej Kopacki
2006 Yurii Andrukhovych[24]  Ukraine Dwanaście kręgów Twelve Circles Katarzyna Kotyńska

Laureates by country
Country Number
Ukraine 3
Hungary 2
Austria 1
Belarus 1
Bosnia and Herzegovina 1
Bulgaria 1
Poland 1
Romania 1
Russia 1
Slovakia 1
Slovenia 1

See also

References
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  2. "Regulations". Retrieved 2017-12-26.
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