Literary Reportage in the Form of True Crime: Żeby nie było śladów (Leave No Traces) by Cezary Łazarewicz
Year: 2026
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: In 2017, two years after Svetlana Alexievich became the first journalist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Polish reporter Cezary Łazarewicz was awarded the Nike Literary Prize for his book Żeby nie było śladów (Leave No Traces). Łazarewicz’s work of literary reportage became the first of its kind to win the Nike Literary Prize—Poland’s most prestigious literary award presented annually for the best book written in Polish. In his praise, jury chairman Tomasz Fiałkowski observed: “In his historical reportage, Cezary Łazarewicz neither manipulates nor embellishes the facts. In the name of truth, he painstakingly reconstructs the circumstances surrounding the death of a Warsaw high school graduate, the son of opposition activist and poet Barbara Sadowska, and events that followed.”
Institutions: Université de Lorraine, WSB Merito University in Poznan
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7170992075