His volume of poetry Zachód słońca w Milanówku won the prestigious Nike Award in 2003.

[3] Although Rymkiewicz was primarily a poet, he is better known as the author of two influential novels that contributed to the two most important debates of the 1980s: that involving the 1981 martial law and Polish-Jewish relations.

It was reprinted a few times by underground publishing houses in Poland but officially appeared only in 1992 after the communists lost power in 1989.

He concluded that Germans introduced the name Umschlagplatz sometime before July 1942; in pre-war Poland the place was called Transfer Square and was the centre for the Jewish wholesale trade.

[2] As an essayist, Rymkiewicz concentrated on Polish history (the partition period, World War II).