Among the 14 books in the semifinals of the Angelus are the following:
- Ádam Bodor, "Ptaki Wierchowiny", ('Birds of Wierchowina')/Czarne/
- Jacek Dehnel, "Matka Makryna" ('Mother Makryna') /W.A.B./
- Paweł Huelle, "Śpiewaj ogrody" ('Sing Gardens')/Znak/
- Drago Jančar, "Widziałem ją tej nocy" ('I Saw Her That Night')/ Czarne/
- Jaroslav Rudis "Cisza w Pradze" ('Silence in Prague')/Książkowe Klimaty/
- Wasyl Słapczuk, "Księga zapomnienia" ('The Book of Oblivion')/Wysoki Zamek/
- Andrzej Stasiuk, "Wschód" ('East') /Czarne/
- Ziemowit Szczerek, "Siódemka" ('Seven') /Korporacja Ha!art/
- Natalka Śniadanko, "Lubczyk na poddaszu" ('Lovage In the Attic') /Biuro Literackie/
- Lucian Dan Teodorovici, 'Matei Brunul' / Amaltea/
- Kateřina Tučkovà, "Boginie z Žítkovej" ('Goddesses of Zítková') /Afera/
- Magdalena Tulli, "Szum" ('Noise') /Znak/
- Olga Tokarczuk, "Księgi Jakubowe" ('The Books of Jacob') /Wydawnictwo Literackie/
- Serhij Żadan, "Mezopotamia" ('Mesopotamia') /Wydawnictwo Czarne/
The jury of the Central European Literary Award Angelus includes, among others, Ukrainian intellectual, Mykola Ryabchuk (chairman), poet Ryszard Krynicki, critics Krzysztof Masłoń and Justyna Sobolewska. The award was founded by the city of Wroclaw, and applies to books, the authors of which come from one of the countries of Central Europe (including Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania, Germany, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, and Hungary). The books are entered by publishers, but also the jurors themselves. Apart from the author, a prize (EUR 20 000) also goes to a Polish translator of the book (in case the Angelus goes to a Polish writer, the award goes to a translator of one of the runner-up books).
So far, the winners of Central European Literature Award Angelus were: Ukrainian Yuri Andrukhovych, Austrian Martin Pollack, Hungarian Péter Esterházy, and in 2014 Slovakian Pavol Rankov.
