Ryszard Kapuściński Award

The Ryszard Kapuściński Award (Polish: Nagroda im. Ryszarda Kapuścińskiego) is a major annual Polish international literary prize, the most important distinction in the genre of literary reportage.^[1]

Ryszard Kapuściński Award
Awarded for	best reportage books
Country	Poland
Presented by	Council of the Capital City of Warsaw
Reward(s)	PLN 100,000 (ca. $25,000)
First award	2010

History

The award was founded to celebrate and promote most worthwhile reportage books which touch on important contemporary issues, evoke reflection, and deepen knowledge of the world of other cultures, and thus also about oneself. Intended to honour the legacy of the journalist and writer Ryszard Kapuściński (1932–2007), the award cherishes the honorary patronage of Mrs Alicja Kapuścińska, the wife of the writer.

Established in January 2010 by the Council of the Capital City of Warsaw, the award takes form of a monetary prize: 100,000 złoty for the author of the best literary reportage of the year and 20,000 PLN to the author of the best translation of the reportage of the year.^[2] Past members of the jury have included figures such as Joanna Bator, Maciej Drygas, Olga Stanisławska, Maciej Zaremba, Małgorzata Szejnert, Anders Bodegård, Julia Fiedorczuk, William R. Brand and Piotr Mitzner.^[3]

The award should not be confused with two other awards named after Ryszard Kapuściński: the Polish Press Agency Ryszard Kapuściński Award established in 2010^[4][5] and the Ryszard Kapuściński Translation Award established in 2015.^[6]

Winners

Year	Laureate(s)	Image	Citizenship(s)	Title	Award for translation	Citation(s)	Ref.
2024	Fernanda Melchor		Mexico	This Is Not Miami (To nie jest Miami)	Tomasz Pindel	for the translation of Fernanda Melchor's This Is Not Miami	[7]
2023	Anna Goc	–	Poland	Głusza	No award	–
2022	Ander Izagirre		Spain	The Mountain That Eats Men (Potosí. Góra, która zjada ludzi)	Jerzy Wołk-Łaniewski	for the translation of Ander Izagirre's The Mountain That Eats Men	[8]
2021	Jessica Bruder		United States	Nomadland	Martyna Tomczak	for the translation of Jessica Bruder's Nomadland	[9]
2020	Katarzyna Kobylarczyk		Poland	The Scab. Spain Scratches Open Its Wounds (Strup. Hiszpania rozdrapuje rany)	Irena Kowadło-Przedmojska, Tomasz Pindel and Marek S. Zadura (ex aequo)	for the translations of Lars Berg's Good Wolf. The Tragedy At A Swedish Zoo, Óscara Martínez's The Beast: About People No One Cares About and Artem Czech's Zero Point respectively	[10]
2019	Maciej Zaremba		Sweden	A House with Two Turrets (Dom z dwiema wieżami)	Mariusz Kalinowski	for the translation of Maciej Zaremba's Huset med de två tornen (A House with Two Turrets) from Swedish	[11]
2018	Anna Bikont		Poland	Sendler: In Hiding (Sendlerowa. W ukryciu)	Sergiusz Kowalski	for the translation of Ben Rawlence's City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp from English	[12]
2017	Rana Dasgupta		United Kingdom	Capital: A Portrait of Delhi in the Twenty‑First Century	Barbara Kopeć-Umiastowska, Janusz Ochab and Marta Szafrańska-Brandt (ex aequo)	for the translations of Rana Dasgupta's Capital: A Portrait of Delhi in the Twenty‑First Century, Ed Vulliamy's The War is Dead, Long Live the War: Bosnia: The Reckoning and Martin Caparrós Hunger (El Hambre) respectively	[13]
2016	Paweł Piotr Reszka		Poland	The Devil and the Bar of Chocolate	No award	–	[14]
2015	William Dalrymple		Scotland	Return of a King	No award	–	[15][16]
2014	Elisabeth Åsbrink		Sweden	And in Wienerwald the Trees Are Still Standing (Och i Wienerwald står träden kvar)	Irena Kowadło-Przedmojska	for the translation of Elisabeth's Åsbrink's And in Wienerwald the Trees Are Still Standing	[17]
2013	Ed Vulliamy		United Kingdom	Amexica: War Along the Borderline	Janusz Ochab	for the translation of Ed Vulliamy's Amexica: War Along the Borderline	[18][19]
2012	Liao Yiwu		China	The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up	Wen Huang and Agnieszka Pokojska	for the Chinese-English translation of Liao Yiwu's The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up	[20]
2011	Svetlana Alexievich		Belarus	War's Unwomanly Face	Jerzy Czech	for the Polish translation of Svetlana Alexievich's War's Unwomanly Face	[21]
2010	Jean Hatzfeld		France	The Antelope's Strategy: Living in Rwanda After the Genocide	Jacek Giszczak	for the Polish translation of Jean Hatzfeld's The Antelope's Strategy: Living in Rwanda After the Genocide	[22]

See also

• Angelus Award
• Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award
• Polish literature