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