25 titles fought, but the Polish book of the 25th anniversary could be only one

The nominated items included The book “Neighbors. The history of the extermination of the Jewish town” of Jan Tomasz Gross about the pogrom of a thousand six hundred Jews from Jedwabne, murdered on July 10, 1941, but also published four years after her “We from the Jedwabne” Anna Bikont, which has been causing for 25 years. Among the nominated titles there was a place for historical studies on peasants and peasants who are very well read (Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak, “Peasants. The story of our grandmothers”, Adam Leszczyński, “People’s History of Poland. History of exploitation and resistance”), he will say Pentecost (including the successfully screened “blinding from the lights” by Jakub Żulczyk, and even a book written (and drawn) primarily for children – the international bestseller “Maps” by Aleksandra and Daniel Mizieliński. Only one author managed to catch the list with two booksand it was one of them who won the title of the 25th anniversary book.

25 nominated books, but there could only be one book

Among the nominated titles were: “Bieguni” from 2007 and “Books of Jakub or a great journey through seven borders …” from 2014 Olga Tokarczuk. And these are “Jakub books” readers of “Gazeta Wyborcza”. – That’s it An unusual book, which is almost one thousand pages. I think that Olga should get a doctorate in history for writing it, because she worked on it for seven years. Maybe it should be mandatory reading? Although probably a bit too fat for children – journalist Monika Olejnik said about her, who was among the nominators. It was also indicated by, among others Justyna Sobolewska (“Polityka”) and Katarzyna Czajka-Kominiarczuk, “Pop cultural animal”.

This was the list of nominated titles:

1. Anna Bikont, “We from Jedwabne”, ed. Prószyński i S-ka, 2004
2. Jacek Dehnel, “Lala”, ed. WAB, 2006
3. Artur Domosławski, “Kapuściński non-fiction”, ed. World of Books, 2010
4. Jacek Dukaj, “ice”, ed. Literary Publishing House, 2007
5. Jan Tomasz Gross, “Neighbors. History of the extermination of the Jewish town”, ed. Borderland, 2000
6. Magdalena Grzebałkowska, “Beksińscy. Double portrait”, ed. Sign, 2016
7. Maria Janion, “To Europe – yes, but together with our dead”, ed. Sic!, 2000
8. Bożena Keff, “song about mother and homeland”, ed. Ha! Art, 2008
9. Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak, “Chłopki. Tale of our grandmothers”, ed. Margins, 2023
10. Andrzej Leder, “Dark revolution. Exercises in historical logic”, ed. Krytyka Polityczna Publishing House, 2014
11. Adam Leszczyński, “People’s History of Poland. History of exploitation and resistance”, ed. WAB, 2020
12. Cezary Łazarewicz, “so that there are no traces. The matter of Grzegorz Przemyk”, ed. Black, 2016
13. Dorota Masłowska, “Polish-Russian war under the white and red flag”, ed. Lamp and Iskra God, 2002
14. Aleksandra and Daniel Mizieliński, “Maps”, ed. Two sisters, 2012
15. Wiesław Myśliwski, “Treaty of bean shelling”, ed. Sign, 2006
16. Radek Rak, “A fairy tale about a snake heart or a second word about Jakób Szela”, ed. Powergraph, 2019
17. Zyta Rudzka, “Short fire exchange”, ed. WAB, 2018
18. Mariusz Szczygieł, “Gottland”, ed. Black, 2006
19. Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki, “Song about dependencies and addictions”, ed. Literary Office, 2008
20. Olga Tokarczuk, “Bieguni”, ed. Literary Publishing House, 2007
21. Olga Tokarczuk, “Books of Jakub or a great journey through seven borders …”, ed. Literary Publishing House, 2014
22. Szczepan Twardoch, “King”, ed. Literary Publishing House, 2016
23. Marcin Wicha, “Things I didn’t throw away”, ed. Karakia, 2017
24. Michał Witkowski, “Lubiewo”, ed. Ha! Art, 2005
25. Jakub Żulczyk, “blinding from the lights”, ed. World of Books, 2014