The Nike Literary Award is a prize given each year to the best book written by a living Polish author and published the year before. It is considered the most important award for Polish literature. The award was started in 1997 and is supported by Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland's second-largest newspaper, and NICOM, a consulting company. It is given every October. It is open to books in all types of writing, such as non-fiction essays and autobiographies.

Each year, a group of nine judges chooses the winner in three steps. In May, 20 books are chosen as official nominees. In September, seven of these books become finalists. The final decision is made during the award ceremony in October. The prize includes a statue of Nike, created by the famous Polish sculptor Kazimierz Gustaw Zemła, and a cash prize of about 100,000 Polish zlotys (about $25,000).

In addition to the main prize, there is an audience award. This is decided by a vote on the seven finalists by Gazeta Wyborcza. The jury and audience choices have matched only a few times: in 2000, 2001, 2004, 2015, 2018, 2019, and 2021. Two winners of the Nike Award have also won the Nobel Prize in Literature: Czesław Miłosz (1980) and Olga Tokarczuk (2018). Tokarczuk and Wiesław Myśliwski are the only people to have won the Nike Award two times.