Writer
Stanislaw Lem
1921 – 2006
- Active years (films on this site)
- 1972–2013
Directors worked with
Biography
Stanisław Herman Lem was a Polish writer. He was the author of many novels, short stories, and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology, and literary criticism. Many of his science fiction stories are of satirical and humorous character. Lem's books have been translated into more than 50 languages and have sold more than 45 million copies. Worldwide, he is best known as the author of the 1961 novel Solaris. In 1976, Theodore Sturgeon wrote that Lem was the most widely read science fiction writer in the world.
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Awards and honours
International
- Officer of the Order of Polonia Restituta 1959
- Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta 1970
- Seiun Awards 1977
- Grand Prix de Littérature Policière 1979
- Work Flag Order, 2nd class 1979
- Austrian State Prize for European Literature 1985
- Franz Kafka Prize 1991
- Polish PEN Club Award Jan Parandowski 1995
- Order of the White Eagle (Third Polish Republic) 1996
- Geffen Award 2003
National / local
- Gold Cross of Merit 1955
- honorary doctor of Wrocław University of Science and Technology 1981
- Kraków Book of the Month 1999
- honorary citizen of Kraków 2003
- Golden Medal for Merit to Culture 2005
- honorary doctor of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow
3 films on this site
- Solaris 1972 · Andrei Tarkovsky · IMDb 7.9 · Writer
- Solaris (2002) 2002 · Steven Soderbergh · IMDb 6.2 · Writer
- The Congress 2013 · Ari Folman · IMDb 6.4 · Writer