Judith Schalansky and Deniz Ohde longlisted for Angelus Award 2023

Of the 125 books submitted for this year’s Angelus Award, the jury has selected fourteen titles for the longlist, including Sky Glow by Deniz Ohde and An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky.

The longlist includes books by authors well established on the Polish market, such as Oksana Zabuzhko (winner of the Angelus Award in 2012) and Zyta Rudzka (winner of this year's Warsaw Literary Award), but also those making their debut in 2022.

The jury, currently chaired by Martin Pollack, Austrian writer, translator of Polish literature and winner of the Angelus Award in 2007, consists of literary critics, journalists, professors, essayists and historians. They will present the seven finalists in September and announce the winner of this year’s award on October 14, 2023.

The prize, endowed with PLN 150 000, distinguishes prose works from Middle and Eastern Europe and has been awarded by the city of Wroclaw, Poland, since 2006. Previous recipients include Serhiy Zhadan (2015, for Mesopotamia), Yuri Andrukhovych (2006, for Twelve Rings) and the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Svetlana Alexievich (2011, for Second-hand Time), among others.