{"id":314717,"date":"2023-11-09T09:16:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T08:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=314717"},"modified":"2023-11-09T09:16:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T08:16:59","slug":"kazimierz-braun-awarded-the-london-prize-for-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/kazimierz-braun-awarded-the-london-prize-for-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazimierz Braun awarded the London Prize for Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Professor Kazimierz Braun, a playwright, director and writer formerly associated with the University of Wroc\u0142aw, has been awarded the London Prize for Literature, granted for the 72nd time by the Union of Polish Writers Abroad. He was honoured for his life&#8217;s work, with particular emphasis on his writing, theatre and academic activities after settling in the United States in 1985.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;My first reaction was one of great surprise and embarrassment, for this prestigious award had been received in the past by Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz, Gustaw Herling-Grudzi\u0144ski and W\u0142odzimierz Odojewski. I felt unworthy of such a great prize. However, I felt joy that in this way my many years of numerous scientific, literary, theatrical and pedagogical works were somehow summed up&#8221;, says Professor Braun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The laureate was a lecturer in cultural studies at Wroc\u0142aw for over ten years (1974-1985). He habilitated at the University of Wroc\u0142aw in 1984.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read more: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/uwr.edu.pl\/kazimierz-braun-laureatem-londynskiej-nagrody-literackiej\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/uwr.edu.pl\/kazimierz-braun-laureatem-londynskiej-nagrody-literackiej\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Kazimierz Braun, a playwright, director and writer formerly associated with the University of Wroc\u0142aw, has been awarded the London Prize for Literature, granted for the 72nd time by the Union of Polish Writers Abroad. He was honoured for his life&#8217;s work, with particular emphasis on his writing, theatre and academic activities after settling in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":314644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314727,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314717\/revisions\/314727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}