The Nike Literary Award (Polish: Nagroda Literacka „Nike", pronounced [ˈnikɛ]) 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.^[1] 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.

Each year, a nine-member jury selects the laureate in a three-stage process. Twenty official nominees are accepted in May, out of which seven finalists are declared in September. The final decision does not take place until the day of the award ceremony in October. The award consists of a statuette referring to the Greek goddess Nike, designed by the prominent Polish sculptor Kazimierz Gustaw Zemła, and a cash prize of currently PLN 100,000 (ca. $25,000).

In addition to the main jury award, there is an audience award based on the outcome of a vote on the seven official finalists conducted by Gazeta Wyborcza. The verdicts of the audience and jury have converged only occasionally (2000, 2001, 2004, 2015, 2018, 2019 and 2021). Two laureates of the award have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature: Czesław Miłosz (1980) and Olga Tokarczuk (2018). Tokarczuk and Wiesław Myśliwski are the only individuals to date to have received the Nike Award twice.

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Year	Picture	Author	Title	English title	Genre(s)	Ref.
2023	Zyta Rudzka		Ten się śmieje kto ma zęby	Only Those with Teeth Can Smile	Novel
2022	Jerzy Jarniewicz		Mondo Cane	Mondo Cane	Poetry	[2]
2021	Zbigniew Rokita		Kajś. Opowieść o Górnym Śląsku	Kajś: A Tale of Upper Silesia	Reportage	[3]
2020	Radek Rak		Baśń o wężowym sercu	The Snake Heart Fairy Tale	Fantasy novel	[4]
2019	Mariusz Szczygieł		Nie ma	No There	Reportage	[5]
2018	Marcin Wicha		Rzeczy, których nie wyrzuciłem	Things I Didn't Throw Out	Collection of essays	[6]
2017	Cezary Łazarewicz		Żeby nie było śladów. Sprawa Grzegorza Przemyka	So There'll Be No Traces. Grzegorz Przemyk's Case	Reportage	[7]
2016	Bronka Nowicka	–	Nakarmić kamień	To Feed a Stone	Poetry	[8][9]
2015	Olga Tokarczuk		Księgi Jakubowe	The Books of Jacob	Novel	[10]
2014	Karol Modzelewski		Zajeździmy kobyłę historii. Wyznania poobijanego jeźdźca	We'll Ride the Mare of History to the Ground: Confessions of a Bruised Rider	Autobiography	[11][12]
2013	Joanna Bator		Ciemno, prawie noc	Dark, Almost Night	Novel	[13]
2012	Marek Bieńczyk		Książka twarzy	Book of Faces	Collection of essays	[14]
2011	Marian Pilot		Pióropusz	Plume	Novel	[15]
2010	Tadeusz Słobodzianek	–	Nasza klasa	Our Class	Play	[16]
2009	Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki		Piosenka o zależnościach i uzależnieniach	A Song of Dependencies and Addictions	Poetry	[17]
2008	Olga Tokarczuk		Bieguni	Flights	Novel	[18]
2007	Wiesław Myśliwski		Traktat o łuskaniu fasoli	Treatise on Shelling Beans	Novel	[19]
2006	Dorota Masłowska		Paw królowej	The Queen's Peacock	Novel	[20]
2005	Andrzej Stasiuk		Jadąc do Babadag	Travelling to Babadag	Novel	[21]
2004	Wojciech Kuczok		Gnój	Muck	Novel	[22]
2003	Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz		Zachód słońca w Milanówku	Sunset in Milanówek	Poetry	[23]
2002	Joanna Olczak-Roniker		W ogrodzie pamięci	In the Garden of Memory	Novel	[24]
2001	Jerzy Pilch		Pod Mocnym Aniołem	The Strong Angel Inn	Novel	[25]
2000	Tadeusz Różewicz		Matka odchodzi	Mother Is Leaving	Poetry	[26]
1999	Stanisław Barańczak		Z chirurgiczną precyzją	Surgical Precision	Poetry	[27]
1998	Czesław Miłosz		Piesek przydrożny	Road-side Dog	Poetry	[28]
1997	Wiesław Myśliwski		Widnokrąg	Horizon	Novel	[29]

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• 10 nominations – Jerzy Pilch
• 9 nominations – Andrzej Stasiuk
• 7 nominations – Tadeusz Różewicz
• 6 nominations – Julia Hartwig, Ewa Lipska, Olga Tokarczuk
• 5 nominations – Jacek Dehnel, Piotr Matywiecki, Czesław Miłosz, Jacek Podsiadło, Ryszard Przybylski, Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz, Magdalena Tulli
• 4 nominations – Marek Bieńczyk, Michał Głowiński, Henryk Grynberg, Ignacy Karpowicz, Urszula Kozioł, Marcin Świetlicki, Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki, Krzysztof Varga, Adam Zagajewski
• 3 nominations – Justyna Bargielska, Joanna Bator, Wojciech Bonowicz, Sylwia Chutnik, Włodzimierz Kowalewski, Zbigniew Kruszyński, Dorota Masłowska, Wiesław Myśliwski, Joanna Olczak-Roniker, Tomasz Różycki, Małgorzata Szejnert, Wisława Szymborska, Adam Wiedemann, Michał Witkowski

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