The Tadeusz Bradecki Prize is an annual award for an imaginative work published in English in the UK or in Europe, that crosses the borders between artistic disciplines, genres, subject matter and cultures. Put simply, it celebrates books in which story-telling fiction and non-fiction writing combine in an original way.

“If a fellow traveller journeying through the Land of Fiction would like to ponder, for a while, the many paths that pass through it, I would consider my intentions had been fulfilled.” — Tadeusz Bradecki, The End of Ends

Submissions can include prose, poetry, and playwriting, be in any literary genre (for example science fiction and thrillers), and explore subjects such as philosophy, history, geography, politics, art, images and travel. Examples include works such as Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald, Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuściński or Civilizations by Laurent Binet.

The three judges for the 2025 prize will be Francis Spufford (Chair), Krzysztof Zanussi and Carole Welch.