Polish Academy of Literature

According to its own statute, the main objective of the academy was to raise the quality level of Poland's publishing, while working in conjunction with the government efforts and NGO endeavors focused on the advancement of Polish culture and art in general.

The century of foreign Partitions of Poland, ending in 1918, was marked by the forcible suppression of Polish education, language and religion under Prussian (and later German rule, see Kulturkampf),[2] and outright Russification in the territories occupied by the Tsarist Empire,[3][4] reaching its epitome under Otto von Bismarck on the one hand, and Nicholas II on the other.

[7] The academy awarded two highest national honors for contribution to the development of Polish literature: the Gold and the Silver Laurel (Złoty, and Srebrny Wawrzyn).

[6] Among the members of the academy were the luminaries of Poland's literary life including its own president Wacław Sieroszewski, vicepresident Leopold Staff,[9] secretary general Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski,[10] and popular writers such as Wacław Berent,[10] Piotr Choynowski, Zofia Nałkowska,[10] Zenon Przesmycki, Karol Irzykowski,[10] Juliusz Kleiner, Bolesław Leśmian, Karol Hubert Rostworowski, Wincenty Rzymowski, Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, Jerzy Szaniawski, and Tadeusz Zieliński.

The leading proponent of Polish Stalinism from Kuźnica, Jan Kott, summarized the subject in the following way: "The Academy is like the monarchy; if it has existed for some time, one can get used to it, just as one can get accustomed to progressive bulbar palsy.