2025 | Emil Marat „Bratny. Hamlet rozstrzelany" - Instytut Pileckiego

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2025 | Emil Marat „Bratny. Hamlet rozstrzelany"

The book “Bratny. Hamlet rozstrzelany” (Wydawnictwo Czarne) won the Witold Pilecki International Book Award in the “historical reportage” category.

Emil Marat received the main prize in the category for books that offer the reader an engaging story about the experience of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe of confronting totalitarianism in the 20th century, with a particular emphasis on Poland.

While writing the winning publication, the author made good use of the capital he had accumulated over the years as an experienced, acclaimed and award-winning reporter and writer. He has been writing about Bratny for years, said Aneta Prymaka-Oniszk, a member of the Awards Committee, in her commendation speech. It can be said, therefore, that “Bratny, Hamlet rozstrzelany” has been long in the making, perhaps even before Emil Marat had realized it himself. This is the magic that combines many years of hard work, perseverance and experience – including that ordinary human experience – with a youthful passion to produce wonderful books, emphasized Aneta Prymaka-Oniszk.

The author of Kolumbowie. Rocznik 20, a book that has shaped the collective memory of the Warsaw Uprising among several generations of Poles, is right­fully dubbed “the Polish Hemingway”. A notorious womanizer and a troubled father, he had both conflicted feelings and conflicted views. The biography of Roman Bratny takes a closer look at his complex personality, while also explor­ing his legacy in Polish culture.

Emil Marat is a journalist and a non-fic­tion author. Bratny. Hamlet rozstrzelany is the final book in his trilogy about the protagonists of the Kolumbowie. Rocznik 20 novel, after Made in Poland (co-written with Michał Wójcik) and Sen Kolumba.

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