The annual competition is organized by the Legnica Public Library and the Copper Museum. The criteria used by the jury were editorial care, meaning aesthetics and graphic design; editorial quality; the appeal of the subject; educational and artistic value; originality; the result of an individual’s or team’s work; and the impact on the community of the city, region and country.

The following publications received nominations for the title of Legnica Book of the Year 2015:

  1. Jędrzej Burszta, Zuzanna Grębecka: They Called It “Second Moscow”. Legnica Residents’ Memories of the Stationing of Soviet Troops in 1945–1993: Ethnographic Sources. Kraków, Libron publishing house
  2. Czesław Kowalak: School Banners of Legnica. Society of Friends of Science in Legnica
  3. Anna Kopcza, Aleksandra Kopcza: Artistic Flavours: Out of Love for Cooking. Warsaw, Sophisti Book
  4. Marcin Makuch: Legnica in Copper Colour: 60 Years of the “Legnica” Copper Smelter, Copper Museum
  5. Marcin Makuch: Secrets of Legnica. Łódź, Księży Młyn
  6. Przemysław Nadolski, Dariusz Walczak, Zbigniew Danyluk, Bohdan Turżaski: Lower Silesian Trams. Vol. 2: The History of Trams and Trolleybuses in Legnica. Rybnik, Eurosprinter.

The official announcement of the verdict, presentation of the Honorary Title “Legnica Book of the Year 2015” and award presentation—the statuette made at the Studio Borowski artistic glass workshop—will take place during the Carnival Concert for Two Sopranos at the Copper Museum on 24 January 2016 at 5:00 p.m.

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