(A) Warsaw. In the election process organized by Wiadomości Literackie for members of the Academy of Independents Bruno Schulz wins a hundred votes and is not admitted among the ranks of “academics”.
(A) In September 1933, the Polish Academy of Literature (PAL) was established with a Regulation of the Council of Ministers. Wacław Sieroszewski became the head of this national patronage organisation focused on popularising literature; Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski, chief advocate for the establishment of the Academy, became its secretary. Among the members there were mainly older-generation writers1. In response to the establishment of the government academy in 1934, Wiadomości Literackie organised a contest: “Who would we choose to an Academy of Independents if such an Academy was to be established?”2. The results were announced in January 1935; readers decided to include the following writers in the Academy: Julian Tuwim*, Antoni Słonimski*, Andrzej Strug, Maria Dąbrowska, Paweł Hulka-Laskowski, Kazimierz Wierzyński*, Ferdinand Goetel, Michał Choromański, Aleksander Brückner, Jan Parandowski, Aleksander Świętochowski, Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna, Adolf Nowaczyński and Szymon Askenazy. Bruno Schulz received a hundred votes; in comparison, Askenazy, the least popular among those included in the Academy – 2,528, the winner Tuwim – 11,245 votes. Since 1935, the Academy of Independents began to award a prize for the book of the year. (mr) (transl. mw)
See also: November 1938*, 8 February 1939*.