Born 1921 · Poland
Nike 2005 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Exit”
Tadeusz Różewicz · 83 when first published
Poetry · 114 pages
AI-generated summary:Poems by an old poet who sits at a rickety table in his poor stall, ashamed, while supermarkets fill with bestsellers, and who writes that words have been used up, yet still offers some that can be laid on a wound.
Nike 2002 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Professor's Knife”
Tadeusz Różewicz · 80 when first published
Poetry · 40 pages · War
AI-generated summary:Poems centred on a long title poem about the Holocaust, memory and friendship, which begins with a small knife that the poet's friend, the art historian Mieczysław Porębski, made from a barrel hoop in Auschwitz.
Nike 2000 · Winner
Matka odchodzi
Tadeusz Różewicz · 78 when first published
Poetry · 136 pages
AI-generated summary:Poems and prose memories of the poet's mother: her eyes, which watch her son all his life, her stay in hospital in 1957 and her death from cancer, together with family photographs and notes by his brother and by her.