Nike Literary Award (Nagroda Literacka 'Nike')
1 appearances
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Edition 9 (2005) Winner
Andrzej Stasiuk
アンジェイ・スタシウク
Andrzej Stasiuk
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1960-09-25 （Warsaw）
- Nationality
- Polish
- Languages
- Polish
- Residence History
- Warsaw → Czarne (Beskids)
Career
- Occupations
- Novelist, journalist, literary critic
- Active Years
- 1992-2024
- Affiliations
- Wydawnictwo Czarne
- Influenced By
- Marek Hłasko, Jack Kerouac
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Kościelski Award | — | — | — | won |
| 2005 | Nike Award | Jadąc do Babadag | — | — | won |
| 2010 | Gdynia Literary Prize | Taksim | — | — | won |
| 2016 | Austrian State Prize for European Literature | — | — | — | won |
Kościelski Award
1995
Result:
won
Nike Award
2005
Work:
Jadąc do Babadag
Result:
won
Gdynia Literary Prize
2010
Work:
Taksim
Result:
won
Austrian State Prize for European Literature
2016
Result:
won
Awards & Nominations
Vilenica International Literary Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 23 (2008) Winner
Gdynia Literary Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 5 (2010) Winner
Austrian State Prize for European Literature
1 appearances
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Edition 51 (2016) Winner
Works
Major Works
The Walls of Hebron
1992 short storiesStories based on his prison experiences.
prisonpacifismyouth drift
Translations
- English translation available
White Raven
1995 novelAdventure novel.
adventurepost-communist Poland
Translations
- White Raven (2000)
Tales of Galicia
1995 short storiesImpressionistic tales of Galicia.
provincial lifeEastern Europe
Translations
- Tales of Galicia (2003)
Jadąc do Babadag
2004 travelogueJourney from Baltic Sea to Albania, focusing on geography and landscape.
Eastern Europelandscapematerial reality
Translations
- On the Road to Babadag
Bibliography
- Mury Hebronu (1992)
- Wiersze miłosne i nie (1994)
- Biały kruk (1995)
- Opowieści galicyjskie (1995)
- Przez rzekę (1996)
- Dukla (1997)
- Dwie sztuki (telewizyjne) o śmierci (1998)
- Jak zostałem pisarzem (1998)
- Dziewięć (1999)
- Moja Europa (2000)
- Tekturowy samolot (2000)
- Zima (2001)
- Jadąc do Babadag (2004)
- Noc (2005)
- Fado (2006)
- Dojczland (2007)
- Taksim (2009)
- Dziennik pisany później (2010)
- Grochów (2012)
- Wschód (2014)
- Przewóz (2021)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- impressionisticstream of consciousnessatmospheric descriptions
- Recurring Motifs
- Eastern European peripheryprovincial south-east Polandinfluence of material reality
Legacy
Contemporary Polish writer known for travel literature and essays depicting Eastern Europe and its relation to the West. Winner of Nike Award and other major prizes, key figure in post-communist Polish literature.
In Popular Culture
- A species of crustacean, Gammarus stasiuki, named after him.
Quotes
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I fear both the Germans and the Russians, I despise them both equally, and I admire them both. Maybe it's the Poles' fate to be constantly meditating on their own fate in Europe and in the world.
Source: Die Welt interview (2007) -
I haven't been to France or Spain and I've never thought about going there. I am simply interested in our part of the world, this central and eastern reality.
Source: Gazeta Wyborcza interview (2005)
Trivia
- Dropped out of secondary and vocational school, involved in pacifist movement.
- Imprisoned for 1.5 years for deserting the army (legend says in a tank).
- Moved from Warsaw to the remote village of Czarne in the Beskids in 1986, breeds sheep.
- Runs the prestigious publishing house Wydawnictwo Czarne with his wife.