Maria Szyszkowska is a Polish academic, writer and former senator. Szyszkowska was a member of the Democratic Left Alliance and chaired that Party's Ethics Committee. She is currently a leader of Reason of the Polish Left.
Jacek Maria Dehnel is a Polish poet, writer, translator and painter.
The Nike Literary Award is a literary prize awarded each year for the best book of a single living author writing in Polish and published the previous year. It is widely considered the most important award for Polish literature. Established in 1997 and funded by Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland's second largest daily paper, and the consulting company NICOM, it is conferred annually in October. It is open for nominees from all literary genres, including non-fiction essays and autobiographies.
Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual. She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland. She was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Polish female prose writer for "a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life". For her novel Flights, Tokarczuk was awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize. Her works include Primeval and Other Times, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, and The Books of Jacob.
Wiera Gran, real name Dwojra Grynberg was a Polish singer and actress of Jewish ancestry.
Wiesław Myśliwski is a Polish novelist. He is a two-time recipient of the Nike Award, the most important literary prize for Polish literature.
Magdalena Tulli is a Polish novelist and translator, one of Poland's leading writers.
Agata Tuszynska is a Polish writer, poet and journalist.
Joanna Lech – a Polish poet and writer. Author of Zapaść, Nawroty, Trans, Piosenki Pikinierów and Sztuczki. Graduate of the Literary-Arts faculty of Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Lives in Kraków.
Ewa Kuryluk is a Polish artist. She is a pioneer of textile installation, painter, photographer, art historian, novelist and poet, and the author of numerous books, written in Polish and English, many of which have been translated into other languages. She has had over fifty solo exhibitions, participated in many group shows and created outdoor installations throughout the world. Her work can be seen in the National Museums in Warsaw, Kraków, Wrocław and Poznań, as well as in public and private collections in Europe, USA, Latin America and Japan.
Anna Bikont is a Polish journalist for the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper in Warsaw. She is the author of several books, including My z Jedwabnego (2004) about the 1941 Jedwabne pogrom, which was published in English as The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne (2015). The French edition, Le crime et le silence, won the European Book Prize in 2011.
Bohdan Wróblewski was a Polish graphic designer. In 1957, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw where he studied under the great Polish illustrator Jan Marcin Szancer. He deals with functional graphics. He is the author of countless illustrations, which tell the story of the development of technology, especially that of military and civil aviation, automobiles and railways. He draws with extraordinary precision, only by hand, with the use of gouache and ink. He has created numerous illustrations for books for children and adolescents, as well as graphics in lexicons, encyclopediae and guides. He has published a few richly illustrated original albums, e.g. "Jaki znak twój? – orzeł biały" about the iconography related to the Polish emblem and the history of Polish military. He has cooperated with the editors of popular Polish satirical, specialist and children's
Małgorzata Szejnert is a Polish journalist and writer.
Primeval and Other Times is a fragmentary novel by Olga Tokarczuk, published by Wydawnictwo W.A.B. in 1996.
Klementyna Suchanow is a Polish author, editor, and activist. She is the co-founder of the women's rights movement All-Poland Women's Strike.
Katarzyna Tubylewicz is a Polish writer, translator, and a journalist based in Stockholm, Sweden.
Maria Joanna Poprzęcka is a Polish art historian, who served as the director of the Institute of Art History at the University of Warsaw till 2008. A member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, she has served on the jury for the Nike Award, and was the recipient of the Order of Polonia Restituta in 2003, the Gdynia Literary Prize in 2009, and the Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis in 2012.
Marek Bieńczyk is a Polish writer, historian of literature, translator, essayist and oenologist. In 2012, he won the Nike Award, Poland's top literary prize, for his collection of essays Book of Faces.
Magdalena Koleśnik is a Polish stage, film and television actress.
Zyta Rudzka is a Polish novelist, screenwriter, poet and psychologist. She is regarded as one of the most prominent contemporary Polish writers. In 2023, she received the Nike Award, the most important prize for Polish literature.
