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Translator Adrian Cvitanović received the prestigious Iso Velikanović Award for the best translation of 2020. Cvitanović translated Gustaw Herling-Grudziński's Dziennik pisany nocą (“Journal Written at Night) into Croatian. The publication of the book was supported by the Book Institute as part of the ©POLAND Translation Programme.

The Iso Velikanović Award is granted by a jury composed of media representatives and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia. The chairman of the jury, Dinko Telećan, emphasised that Herling-Grudziński's Journal Written at Night is one of the most important diaries of the second half of the 20^th century in European literature.

Adrian Cvitanović, the translator of the book, has to his name the translations of the works of Czesław Miłosz (Ziemia Ulro [“The Land of Urlo”]), Leopold Tyrmand (Cywilizacja komunizmu [“Civilasation of Communism”]), Jerzy Giedroyc (Autobiografia na cztery ręce [“Autobiography for Four Hands”]), Marek Hłasko (Piękni dwudziestoletni [“Beautiful Twentysomethings”]), and Magdalena Tulli (W czerwieni [“In Red”]). All the aforementioned translations were created with the support of the ©POLAND Translation Programme ©POLAND.