Beata Pawlak Memorial Award | |
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Awarded for | best books written in Polish dealing with the topics of religion, culture and society |
Country | Poland |
Presented by | Stefan Batory Foundation |
First awarded | 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.
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