The book bagged Żulczyk a nomination for the prestigious Polityka Passport Award in 2014. Piotr Kofta, one of the jury members, explained this honour:
Żulczyk’s Warsaw of today is reminiscent of James Ellroy’s Los Angeles of the 1950s: trapped in eternal night, feverish with the hunger for gold, pulsating with crime and desire, fuelled and seduced by cocaine. This story of a dealer who lives by his own code of lies, convincing himself it is possible to cross this river of filth without so much as a stain, is for me the book of the season.
The book was translated into French (translator: Kamil Babarski, published under the title Eblous par la nuit), Czech (translators: Michael Alexa and Jan Faber, published as Oslněni světlem) and English (translator: Marek Kazmierski, published as Blinded by the Lights).
2016 saw the television premiere of Bad Teacher (Belfer), Żulczyk’s debut as a screenwriter for Canal+, which he penned alongside Monika Powalisz. A massive hit with audiences all over Poland, a second series was broadcast in 2017. In 2018, a TV series based on Żulczyk's hit novel, Blinded by the Lights, was released by HBO. The show was directed by Krzysztof Skonieczny, with whom the writer co-created the script. Blinded by the Lights was praised for its remarkable portrayal of nocturnal Warsaw (the cinematography by Michał Englert greatly contributed to creating the atmosphere) and excellent acting (especially Jan Frycz, one of Poland's most popular actors, amazed the audience in his role of the gangster Dario).
Żulczyk' s 800 page novel Hound Hill (2017) has been a major critical and commercial success, and will be turned into a television series later this year, while his previous works are also scheduled to be adapted for the big screen in the coming years.