%0 Journal Article
%T Infrastructure of Values. Literary Prizes in Poland after Breakthrough of 1989 as a Tool for Exchange Capitals
%A Budnik, Agnieszka
%J Culture Management
%V 2020
%R 10.4467/20843976ZK.20.004.12038
%N Volume 21, Issue 1
%P 39-50
%K prizes, sociology of literature, cultural economics, axiology, creative economy
%@ 1896-8201
%D 2020
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/zarzadzanie-w-kulturze/article/infrastruktura-wartosci-nagrody-literackie-w-polsce-po-przelomie-1989-roku-jako-narzedzie-wymiany-kapitalow
%X 
	The literary prize is one of the basic categories of the literary field. According to the latest research, the institution of an award is also the most effective capital conversion tool. It broadens the understanding of the term economics by its non-intuitive scope – the economy of culture. Thanks to the existence of prizes, economic capital turns out to be only one of the variants of capital, and the field of culture reveals the principle of transaction that guides it. The literary award is not only a tool for the exchange of capital, but also allows to see the dimension of social mission, tasks of governments, negotiating relationships between the public and private sectors. Prizes as well align the story of literary life, axiology and social reception of works by drawing an alternative history of Polish and world literature of late modernity, marked by awards themselves.