Ewa Wołkanowska-Kołodziej nominated for the Teresa Torańska Newsweek Award

The Teresa Torańska Fundation provided the information about authors nominated for the Teresa Torańska Newsweek Award. Among them, in the category of Best Newspaper Material, is Ewa Wołkanowska-Kołodziej, a Pole from Vilnius.

This is the second edition of the prize awarded by the Newsweek along with the Teresa Torańska Fundation (which was brought to life last year), which purpose is to promote the best authors, participants of the public life and particularly talented young people. Journalists can win the prize in one of four categories: Best Newspaper Material, Best Non-fiction Book, Scholarship, and Public Activity.

This year in the category of Best Newspaper Material Ewa Wołkanowska-Kołodziej, a journalist born in Vilnius, was nominated. She received her nomination for her report A Lithuanian over Lithuanians. The story of the aviator, who flew over the Baltic Chain ( translation of the title A.K). The work was published in Duży Format of Gazeta Wyborcza and tells the story of the aviator, Vytautas Tamošiunas, who while flying a plane threw flowers on the crowd of Lithuanians, Latvians, and Estonians holding hands during the Baltic Chain in 1989. ‘ In the best case one will be fired. In the most probable one, one will go to prison for 20 years. In the worst case one will get shot. Only 39-year-old aviator, Vytautas Tamošiunas, says he will do it’. He had said he would and he did, and Ewa Wołkanowska-Kołodziej has written a report about it, which brought her a nomination for the award.

Ewa Wołkanowska-Kołodziej is an author of many publications and reportages, she also worked for Wilnoteka. On the website it is possible to find, for example, her review of Taste of Russia. Appetizers for Vodka’( translation of the title A.K). The gala during which the four winners will be announced of all above mentioned categories will take place on the 16th of November.

Based on:  : fundacjatoranskiej.pl, polska.newsweek.pl