The NIKE Literary Award was founded in 1997 by "Gazeta Wyborcza" and Nicom Consulting to promote Polish literature. Every year the nine-member jury selects the Polish book of the year from a set of 20 nominee titles in a three-stage competition. The author of the winning book receives the NIKE statuette and a check. Among the Nike winners are prominent Polish writers and poets.
The winners of the NIKE Award:
2009 - Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki for "Piosenka o zaleznosciach i uzaleznieniach"
2008 - Olga Tokarczuk for "Bieguni"
2007 - Wieslaw Mysliwski for "Traktat o łuskaniu fasoli"
2006 - Dorota Maslowska for "Paw królowej"
2005 - Andrzej Stasiuk for "Jadac do Babadag"
2004 - Wojciech Kuczok for "Gnoj"
2003 - Jaroslaw Marek Rymkiewicz for "Zachod slonca w Milanowku"
2002 - Joanna Olczak-Roniker for "W ogrodzie pamieci"
2001 - Jerzy Pilch for "Pod Mocnym Aniolem"
2000 - Tadeusz Rozewicz for "Matka Odchodzi"
1999 - Stanislaw Baranczak for "Chirurgiczna Precyzja"
1998 - Czeslaw Milosz for "Piesek Przydrozny"
1997 - Wieslaw Mysliwski for "Widnokrag"
More information: www.nike.org.pl
