Kościelski Award
The Kościelski price (actually the price Kościelski Foundation, Polish. Nagroda Fundacji in Kościelskich ) is a Polish literary award. The Foundation was founded in 1959 by Monika Kościelska that the publisher and poet Władysław August Kościelski widow, in exile in Switzerland. 1962, the prize was first awarded in Geneva. According to the foundation statutes are to be honored under forty years with him a year, the best Polish-language prose and poetry writers. The number of winners to be determined by a jury is not fixed. Until 1989, found the handover ceremony in Geneva, held since alternately in Warsaw and Krakow. The prize money depends on the interest income and the number of the honorees.