Born 1979 · Poland
Nike 2026 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Zero”
Szczepan Twardoch · 46 when first published
Novel · 275 pages · War
AI-generated summary:On the zero line of the front in Ukraine, a strip of land cut off by a river, a Pole called Kon, a soldier only recently, fights alongside his comrades after leaving the ruins of his old life behind.
Nike 2019 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Kingdom”
Szczepan Twardoch · 39 when first published
Novel · 348 pages · War, Historical
AI-generated summary:In the ruins of Warsaw after the 1944 uprising, Ryfka hides and nurses Jakub Szapiro, once the terror of the city's underworld, while his son Dawid, who survived deportation, looks back on his father.
Nike 2015 · Shortlist
Szczepan Twardoch · 35 when first published
Novel · 394 pages · Family, Historical, War
AI-generated summary:Drach sees the past and knows the future: little Josef watching a pig slaughter in Silesia in 1906, and Nikodem, an architect leaving his wife for another woman a century later, linked by the fates of two families.
Nike 2013 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Morphine”
Szczepan Twardoch · 33 when first published
Novel · 578 pages · War, Historical
AI-generated summary:Warsaw, 1939. Konstanty Willemann, son of a German aristocrat and a Polonised Silesian mother, a cynic, a womaniser and a bad husband, fights reluctantly in September and joins the underground against his will.