Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award

The Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award (Polish: Międzynarodowa Nagroda Literacka im. Zbigniewa Herberta) is a Polish international literature prize established in 2013 in Warsaw and named after a Polish poet, essayist, and moralist Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998). It is conferred annually by the Zbigniew Herbert Foundation and its aim is to recognize "outstanding artistic and intellectual literary achievements on the world stage which have a bearing on the world of values towards which Zbigniew Herbert’s work gravitated".^[1]

Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award
Awarded for	outstanding artistic and intellectual literary achievements
Country	Poland
Presented by	The Zbigniew Herbert Foundation
First award	2013

History

In 2010, the Zbigniew Herbert Foundation was set up to preserve and promote Herbert's "creative legacy as an integral part of the literary and cultural heritage of Poland, Europe and the world" as well as to encourage and support "education in the fields of literature and the humanities, particularly modern literature, writing, poetry and journalism, with a special emphasis on programs for young people".^[2] The initiative to establish the foundation was put forward by his wife Katarzyna Dzieduszycka-Herbert.^[3]

The jury selecting the winners of the award have included many renowned literature experts and authors such as Edward Hirsch, Jaume Vallcorba Plana, Tomas Venclova, Yurii Andrukhovych, Agneta Pleijel, Michael Krüger, Lidija Dimkovska, and Jarosław Mikołajewski.^[4]

Laureates

Year	Laureate(s)	Image	Citizenship(s)	Institution(s)	Source(s)
2024	Yang Lian		Switzerland, China	European Graduate School	[5]
2023	Tomas Venclova		Lithuania	University of Vilnius	[6]
2022	Marianna Kiyanovska		Ukraine	University of Lviv	[7]
2021	Yusef Komunyakaa		United States	New York University	[8]
2020	Durs Grünbein		Germany	Kunstakademie Düsseldorf	[9][10]
2019	Agi Mishol		Israel	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	[11]
2018	Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill		Ireland	University College Cork	[12][13]
2017	Breyten Breytenbach		South Africa / France	University of Cape Town	[14][15][16]
2016	Lars Gustafsson		Sweden	University of Texas at Austin	[17][18]
2015	Ryszard Krynicki		Poland	Adam Mickiewicz University	[19][20]
2014	Charles Simic		Serbia / United States	University of New Hampshire	[21][22]
2013	W.S. Merwin		United States	Princeton University	[23][24]

See also

• Angelus Award
• Silesius Poetry Award
• Polish literature