{"id":585113,"date":"2026-10-05T11:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T08:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=585113"},"modified":"2026-10-05T11:31:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T08:31:03","slug":"polish-writer-szczepan-twardoch-wins-nike-award-for-novel-null-the-book-about-the-war-in-ukraine-has-also-been-translated-into-belarusian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/polish-writer-szczepan-twardoch-wins-nike-award-for-novel-null-the-book-about-the-war-in-ukraine-has-also-been-translated-into-belarusian","title":{"rendered":"Polish Writer Szczepan Twardoch Wins Nike Award for Novel \u201cNull.\u201d The Book About the War in Ukraine Has Also Been Translated Into Belarusian"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Renowned writer <strong>Szczepan Twardoch<\/strong> has won the 2026 Nike Literary Award for his novel \u201cNull.\u201d Readers also voted for the book.<\/p>\n<p>The book is also available in Belarusian. In 2025, the Yanushkevich publishing house <a href=\"https:\/\/knihauka.com\/twardoch_null\">published<\/a> \u201cNull\u201d in a translation by <strong>Katsyaryna Matsiyeuskaya<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The title \u201cNull\u201d refers to the front line. The novel is set in Ukraine. In writing it, the author drew on his own experience of being in Ukraine and stories he heard from soldiers, although the characters and events are fictional. Twardoch emphasized that he wanted to portray the war as close to reality as possible \u2014 without romanticizing the front and creating a simple division between heroes and villains.<\/p>\n<p>Written harshly, vividly and concisely, as only Szczepan Twardoch knows how to write.<\/p>\n<p>The novel emerged from an interplay of circumstances. In other interviews, the writer explained that war had always been his subject. And because this war turned out to be so close, it began to draw him in \u201cwith the force of a magnet.\u201d Twardoch started traveling to Ukraine and writing texts. His German publisher then commissioned him to write a nonfiction book about the war. However, nothing worked out. <em>\u201cAt the moment of my greatest despair, I began writing a novel because I remembered that I was a novelist,\u201d<\/em> Twardoch recalls.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe needed this story,\u201d<\/em> wrote <strong>Witold Bere\u015b<\/strong>, chair of the award jury, in his tribute. <em>\u201cStrong, painfully sincere prose without a single drop of cheap pathos.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned writer Szczepan Twardoch has won the 2026 Nike Literary Award for his novel \u201cNull.\u201d Readers also voted for the book. The book is also available in Belarusian. In 2025, the Yanushkevich publishing house published \u201cNull\u201d in a translation by Katsyaryna Matsiyeuskaya. The title \u201cNull\u201d refers to the front line. The novel is set in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":585111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ac3604c0eb64.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Polish Writer Szczepan Twardoch Wins Nike Award for Novel \u201cNull.\u201d The Book About the War in Ukraine Has Also Been Translated Into Belarusian"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142375,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585114,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585113\/revisions\/585114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}