List of awards and honours received by Stanisław Lem
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This is the list of honors bestowed on Stanisław Lem.
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- 1955: Gold Cross of Merit (Poland)[1]
- 1957 – City of Kraków's Prize in Literature (Nagroda Literacka miasta Krakowa) for the totality of the literary work, with the special mention of Time Not Lost[2]
- 1959: Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta[3]
- 1965 – Prize of the Minister of Culture and Art, 2nd Level (Nagroda Ministra Kultury i Sztuki II stopnia)
- 1970:
- Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta[4]
- Prize of the Minister of Foreign Affairs for popularization of Polish culture abroad (nagroda Ministra Spraw Zagranicznych za popularyzację polskiej kultury za granicą)
- 1973 Literary Prize of the Minister of Culture and Art (nagroda literacka Ministra Kultury i Sztuki) and honorary member of Science Fiction Writers of America
- 1976 – State Prize 1st Level in the area of literature (Nagroda Państwowa I stopnia w dziedzinie literatury)
- 1979
- Order of the Banner of Work of the 2nd class
- Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for his novel Katar.
- A minor planet, 3836 Lem, discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1979, is named after him.[5]
- 1981 – Doctor honoris causa honorary degree from the Wrocław University of Technology[6]
- 1986 – Austrian State Prize for European Literature
- 1987 Honorary title "Person of Merit for National Culture" ("Zasłużony dla kultury narodowej"), Polish Council of State[7]
- 1991 – Austrian literary Franz Kafka Prize[7]
- 1994 – member of the Polish Academy of Learning
- 1996 – recipient of the Order of the White Eagle[6]
- 1997 – honorary citizen of Kraków[6]
- 1998 – Doctor honoris causa: University of Opole, Lviv University, Jagiellonian University[6]
- 2001 – Golden Scepter (Polish: Złote Berło) Award of the Polish Culture Foundation and BIG Bank Gdański for "the overtaking his time with the thought" ("za wyprzedzenie myślą swego czasu")[8]
- 2003 – Doctor honoris causa of the University of Bielefeld[6]
- 2005 - Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis (on the list of the first recipients of the newly introduced medal)[9]
- 2007
- A street in Kraków is to be named in his honour.[10]
- An exoplanet named Pirx was found orbiting the K-type main sequence star Solaris about 161 light-years (49 parsecs, or nearly 1.5×1015 km) from Earth in the constellation Pegasus.
- 2009 – A street in Wieliczka was named in his honour[11]
- 2011 – An elaborate interactive Google Doodle inspired by The Cyberiad was created and published in his honor for the 60th anniversary of his first published book: The Astronauts.[12][13][14][15]
- 2013 – two planetoids were named after Lem's literary characters: 343000 Ijontichy, after Ijon Tichy and 343444 Halluzinelle, after Tichy's holographic companion Analoge Halluzinelle from German TV series Ijon Tichy: Space Pilot
References
[edit]- ^ Alina Doboszewska, "Kalendarium życia i twórczości Stanisława Lema", In: Jerzy Jarzębski, Wszechświat Lema, Kraków, Wydawnictwo Literackie, ISBN 83-08-03343-1. 2003, p. 322.
- ^ Ewa Balcerzak, Stanisław Lem, Warszaw, Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1973, p. 176
- ^ Alina Doboszewska, Kalendarium ... p. 323
- ^ Alina Doboszewska, Kalendarium ... p. 327
- ^ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (5th ed.). New York: Springer Verlag. p. 325. ISBN 3-540-00238-3.
- ^ a b c d e Jerzy Jarzębski. Lem, Stanisław (in Polish). 'PWN. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
- ^ a b Bożena Bednarek-Michalska, Bibliografia polska Stanisława Lema, 2006, ISBN 83-231-1950-3 (summary online)
- ^ ""Złote Berło" dla Stanisława Lema", May 24, 2001
- ^ Medal Gloria Artis dla twórców i działaczy kultury,
- ^ "UCHWAŁA NR VIII/122/07 Rady Miasta Krakowa z dnia 14 marca 2007 r. w sprawie nazw ulic. Par.1, pkt.1" (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2009-11-19.
- ^ "Uchwała nr XXXII/479/2009 Rady Miejskiej w Wieliczce z dnia 30 września 2009 r. w sprawie nadania nazwy ulicy" (PDF) (in Polish). Urząd Marszałkowski Województwa Małopolskiego.
- ^ "Stanisław Lem doodle". Retrieved 2013-09-13.
- ^ "Google creates doodle in Stanislaw Lem's book". The Guardian. 23 November 2011. Retrieved 23 November 2011.
- ^ "Case Study: Building the Stanisław Lem Google doodle", by Marcin Wichary, one of the LEM doodle developers
- ^ "Stanisław Lem on Google’s homepage", an interview of Lem doodle creators, Marcin Wichary and Sophia Foster-Dimino
