Krzysztof Penderecki

Polish composer

Svetlana Alexievich

Belarusian journalist

Andrzej Wajda

Polish film director

Wisława Szymborska

Polish poet

Milan Kundera

Czech-French writer

Zbigniew Herbert

Polish poet

Péter Esterházy

Hungarian writer

Magdalena Abakanowicz

Polish sculptor

György Györffy

Hungarian historian

Andrzej Person

Senator of the Republic of Poland

Humanities

Academic discipline

Andrzej Szczypiorski

Polish novelist

Éva Pócs

Hungarian ethnographer

László Németh

Hungarian dentist

Sándor Csoóri

Songwriter

Svetlana Alexievich (Svetlana Aleksiyeviç)

Belarusian journalist

István Fried

Hungarian literary scholar

Vladimir Veličković

Serbian painter

Marin Sorescu

Former Minister of Culture of Romania

Tamás Hofer

Anthropologist

Ana Blandiana

Romanian poet

Nichita Stănescu

Romanian poet

Ferenc Glatz

Dejan Medaković

Serbian art historian

Nikola Georgiev

Bulgarian literary critic

Anatol Vieru

Romanian musical composer

Mihail Jora

Romanian composer

Bogdan Bogdanović

Serbian professional basketball player

Zoe Dumitrescu-Bușulenga

Romanian essayist

Adriena Šimotová

Czech artist

Alesʹ Razanaŭ

Belarusian writer

Zigmas Zinkevičius

Former Minister of Education and Science of Lithuania

Karel Hubáček

Czech architect

Marek Kopelent

Czech composer

Georgios Babiniotis

Greek linguist

Henryk Stażewski

Polish painter

Manolis Andronikos

Greek archaeologist

Alexandru Rosetti

Romanian linguist

Răzvan Theodorescu

Romanian historian