The coveted Passport Awards have been granted by the Polityka weekly magazine since 1993, Polish state news agency PAP reported.
This year’s prizes were handed out during a ceremony at the Polish National Opera in Warsaw on Tuesday night.
Jan Holoubek received the 2023 Passport Award in the film category.
His drama series High Water is based on the real-life story of a devastating flood that swept southwestern Poland in 1997.
Jan Holoubek. Photo: Polityka
Awards for achievements in theatre, literature, music, visual arts
In line with tradition, the Passport Awards were also granted for outstanding achievements in theatre, literature, pop music, classical music, visual arts and digital culture, the PAP news agency reported.
Grzegorz Piątek received the prize in the literature category for his Gdynia: The Promised Land, a monograph about the creation of Poland’s northern port of Gdynia during the interwar period.
Meanwhile, Anna Sułkowska-Migoń, who last year won the prestigious La Maestra competition for women conductors in Paris, scooped the 2023 Passport Award in the classical music category.
Anna Sułkowska-Migoń (right). Photo: Polityka
The other winners were Agata Słowak (visual arts), Przemysław Jankowiak/1988 (popular music), Anna Górnicka and Jakub Górnicki (digital culture) and Jakub Skrzywanek (theatre), the organisers announced.
In addition, special Creator of Culture prizes went to novelist and playwright Dorota Masłowska, painter Wilhelm Sasnal and musician Ryszard Poznakowski, the PAP news agency reported.
Dorota Masłowska (left). Photo: Polityka
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Source: PAP, Polityka