Winners of 'Poland and me' competition
'Poland and me' competition

Dear Friends!

I hope that we are not taking too many liberties in calling you ‘Friends’ – we feel that we got to know you all quite well thanks to reading your essays. You invited us to your homes, opened to us your family archives, confided in us your thoughts, fears, plans and dreams. Yet again, your essays turned out to be a kaleidoscope of colourful adventures and events. So many essays deserved rewards, and the choice was difficult. This year we received over 200 essays from 30 countries... and so it took us a long time to reach the verdict. Thank you for wanting to share so much with us.

Congratulations, not only to the winners, but to everyone who took part!

Competition panel: Iwona Stempek, Małgorzata Grudzień, Julia Stempek

Winners 2020

• 1st prize Olga Belinskaia (Russia) see the essay
• 2nd prize Alexander Manitz (Germany) see the essay
• 3rd prize Linda Forrest (Great Britain) see the essay
• special citations (books):
  Caroline Lewis (Great Britain) see the essay
  Cordula Reiter (Germany) see the essay
  Marie-Aline Pirali (France) see the essay
  Yuliia Andriichuk (Ukraine) see the essay
  Christopher Hathaway (Great Britain) see the essay
• specail citations (online course):
  Stuart Kilpatrick (Great Britain) see the essay
  Michelle Bishop (USA) see the essay
  Giorgia Poli (Italy) see the essay
  Raksina Sitthikongsak (Thailand) see the essay
  Daniel Calvo Carmona (Spain) see the essay
  Ngoc Anh Nguyen (Vietnam) see the essay
  Jiarong Song (China) see the essay
  Madison Jackson (USA) see the essay
  Anh Nguyen (Vietnam) see the essay
  Gianluca Guardia (Italy) see the essay
  
• special citations (Polish movie):
  Anastasiia Pugachova (Ukraine) see the essay
  Wiktoria Bagińska (Ukraine) see the essay
  Olha Pohranychna (Ukraine) see the essay
  Ludmiła Rado (Ukraine) see the essay
  Aleksander Minasyan (Armenia) see the essay