Na każdy temat – talk show do czytania, with Witold Orzechowski, (On Every Topic), Warsaw 1997.Niedziela, która zdarzyła się w środę (Sunday that Happened on Wednesday), Warsaw 1996.2014: Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.1997: Polsat TV Award (Best Talk Show category).1993: Polish Journalists' Association Award.In 2022 in the book Fakty muszą zatańczyć ( The Facts Must Dance) he came out as a gay man. His works have been translated into numerous languages including Czech, English, Estonian, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, and Ukrainian. It received the European Book Prize as well as Polish Booksellers Prize as an extremely popular book on everything Czech. His popular book Gottland (2006), is, according to Adam Michnik, the first cubistic reportage of the world. Most notable are his studies of the Czechoslovak, and especially Czech, culture and life-style. His work is cited in every anthology of contemporary Polish journalism. Presently, he is the first assistant manager of the weekly supplement Duży Format and assistant manager of its reportage-section. In 2002, he stopped working for TV Polsat and concentrated on writing for Gazeta Wyborcza. Īs a TV presenter of the popular program Na każdy temat (On Every Topic), Szczygieł was the first person in Poland to publicly speak the word 'orgasm' on screen. In spite of communist-era censorship, he published a shocking collection of reportages titled The Shrift, which were about gay and lesbian youth in Poland. He graduated in journalism and political science from the University of Warsaw in 2000.Īt 16, he began writing for the weekly-paper Na przełaj. He is the winner of the 2009 European Book Prize for Gottland and the 2019 Nike Award, the most important prize in Polish literature, for his reportage Nie ma. Mariusz Adam Szczygieł ( Polish pronunciation: born 5 September 1966 Złotoryja, Poland) is a Polish journalist and writer.

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