Born 1964 · Poland
Nike 2026 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Only Fools Live to the End”
Zyta Rudzka · 61 when first published
Novel · 206 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Lida, a PE teacher, leaves the big city for a life on the margins with two men. An outsider who seeks pleasure and finds it, she does not watch the world; she collides with it.
Nike 2023 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“He Laughs Who Has Teeth”
Zyta Rudzka · 58 when first published
Novel · 252 pages
AI-generated summary:Wera, a men's barber, has lost her husband Karol, a former jockey, after a lifetime together that went from plenty to poverty. Now she makes the rounds of her old loves to get him a pair of shoes for the coffin.
Nike 2019 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“A Brief Exchange of Fire”
Zyta Rudzka · 54 when first published
Novel · 198 pages · Love, Family
AI-generated summary:When a young man at a bus stop asks her for a light, Roma Dąbrowska, an ageing poet, realises that her erotic life is over and begins to take stock of her loves.