2024

Grand Prize

Istvan Vizvary

Born 1975, Polish science fiction author, writing novels, short stories and short forms. His father was Hungarian, his mother Polish. A mathematician and computer scientist by education, he graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Lodz. He published short stories in fantasy magazines „Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror” and „Nowa Fantastyka”, as well as in the online magazine „Esensja” and on szortal.pl.

Author of several dozen short stories and two novels: „Vivo” (2017) and „Lagrange. Letters from Earth” (2023). The novel „Lagrange...” was awarded the Jerzy Żuławski Literary Award, Grand Prize, in 2024.

He enjoys playing board games, mostly with his three children, he also likes photography, cooking and good eating.

(2024)

Lagrange. Listy z Ziemi

(Lagrange. Letters from Earth)

The year is 2069. An ecological catastrophe has deprived humans of their illusions of dominating the Earth. However, dreams of colonizing planets around other stars are still alive. The ESS Steropes goes on a trial cruise with a three-person crew to the vicinity of Saturn, to use the Pleione thought lichen to explore the oceans of its moons and the old, abandoned space station. However, the test of new technologies quickly turns into a test for humans, and the unknown, which seemed to be waiting only in the stars, turns out to be lurking just beyond the threshold.

Does truth exist, or is it always just a story? Can the effect precede the cause? Is humanity a curse or a blessing? And also: can a whisper be purple?

„Lagrange. Letters from Earth” is an absolutely surprising novel that makes the reader feel the encounter with the UNKNOWN even more intensely.

(lubimyczytac.pl)

2024

Gold Distinction

Paweł Matuszek

Born 1972 - Polish journalist and publicist, author of short stories and fantasy novels. He studied philosophy and organization of television / film production.

In 2006-2010 editor-in-chief of the monthly „Nowa Fantastyka”. Then in 2010-2011 editor-in-chief of the Polish edition of the quarterly „Fantasy & Science Fiction”, published by Powergraph publishing house.

In addition to „Nowa Fantastyka”, he published literary and comic book reviews in „Przekrój”, „Życie Warszawy”, „Ozon”, „Aktivista”, „Newsweek” and „Fluid”. He was one of the jurors of the first edition of the Jerzy Żuławski Literary Award. Author of the fantasy novel „Kamienna Ćma” published in 2011, nominated for the Janusz A. Zajdel Award. He has also published the novels „Onikromos” (2016), „Parabella” (2022) and „Zejście49” (2023), for which he received the Gold Distinction of the Jerzy Żuławski Literary Award in 2024.

(2024)

Zejście49

(Descent49)

Henry is stranded on Limes, a planet so far out in the universe that the night sky is always black. And during the day, a strange, mechanical sun rises over the dangerous wastelands. Many travelers used to come here, lured by promises of adventure and riches, but they've all long since departed. Henry should too, but he can't. Something is keeping him here. Something beneath the surface of things. Hidden in his past, too. Something that doesn't fit the image of an international corporate employee that Henry wants to believe in. Something that makes us all stuck there with him.

Will he manage to get out? Is escaping the Möbius strip even possible? And does it make sense when there's nothing else to rely on?

(lubimyczytac.pl)

2024

Silver Distinction

Radek Rak

Born 1987, writer and veterinarian. He made his debut with the novel „Kocham cię, Lilith” („I Love You, Lilith”) His next novel „Puste niebo” („Empty Sky”) (2016) was nominated for the Janusz A. Zajdel Award and received the Gold Distinction of the Jerzy Żuławski Literary Award. For his novel „Baśń o wężowym sercu albo wtóre słowo o Jakóbie Szeli” („The Tale of the Serpent Heart or the Second Word about Jakób Szela”) (2019), he was honored with the Nike Literary Award, the Janusz A. Zajdel Award, the Jerzy Żuławski Award Grand Prize and the European Science Fiction Society Award in the category of Best Written Work of Fiction.

As part of the „Agla” series, he published the novel „Alef”, awarded the Żuławski Grand Prize in 2023, and „Aurora”, for which he received the Silver Distinction of this Award in 2024.

(2024)

Agla. Aurora

Sofia, exiled to the Far North, will learn the truth about the dramatic fate of her father's scientific expedition. In a reality where survival is all that matters, Sofia must maintain a spark of humanity. Above all, she will have to face the desires of her heart. Tymian, on the other hand, wants to prove at all costs that he is not a coward, with all the consequences. Both of them are no longer the same people as at the beginning of the first volume („Agla: Alef”). They undergo complex internal metamorphoses – they change and change the world around them.

„Agla: Aurora” is a book about how good people accidentally build totalitarianism. And about the fact that the answers to our questions are often different than we would like them to be. Radek Rak, in an adventure story, tells in an engaging, witty and beautiful way that you don't have to be imprisoned to live in enslavement.

(lubimyczytac.pl)

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