In 1998, Szpilman's son Andrzej published new extended edition of his father's memoir, first in German translation from Karin Wolff as "Das wunderbare Überleben" (The Miraculous Survival) by a German publishing house Ullstein Verlag; and then in English translation by Anthea Bell as "The Pianist" with Epilogue by Wolf Biermann. In March 1999 Władysław Szpilman visited London for Jewish Book Week, where he met English readers to mark the publication of the book in Great Britain. It was later published in more than 35 languages, named "Best book of the year" by "Los Angeles Times", "Sunday Times", "Boston Globe", "The Guardian", "The Economist", "Library Journal", won Annual Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize 2000, "Best book of the year 2001" by magazine "Lire" and "Elle" (Paris) in 2002. New Polish edition, "Pianista : warszawskie wspomnienia 1939–1945" (Kraków: Znak, 2000) became a number 1 on the bestseller list by Polish newspaper "Rzeczpospolita" for 3 years in 2001–2003.