Jérôme Jaminet

Jérôme Jaminet, born in 1979, lives as a teacher, literary mediator and literary critic in Luxembourg. He studied philosophy and German literature at the University of Trier. From 2014 to 2017, he hosted the weekly literary show Book Look on Eldoradio. Since 2018 he has been responsible for the literature section Lesbar in the Lëtzebuerger Journal. As a freelance literary critic, he works among others for German media such as Der Spiegel, MDR Kultur and SWR2.

Jean-Claude Henkes

Jean-Claude Henkes was born in 1965 in Defferdange, Luxembourg. In 1981, he was hired by the Ernster bookshop in Luxembourg city. He’s been working there since and is now a member of the bookshop's Strategic Development Comity.

Jeanne Glesener

Jeanne E. Glesener (1976) is associate professor for Luxembourgish Literature at the University of Luxembourg and Jury President of the prestigious annual literary award, the Prix Servais.
Her research and publications cover Luxembourgish literary and cultural history, small literatures in Europe and migration literature in Europe.

Luxembourg

We are happy to introduce the following jury members for Luxembourg:  Jeanne E. Glesener, professor at the University of Luxembourg, President of the jury Jean-Claude Henkes, bookseller, member of the Strategic Development Commity of the bookshop Ernster Jérôme Jaminet, teacher, literary mediator and critic Jean Back, writer and EUPL 2010 laureate Claude D. Conter, director of the National Literature Centre of Mersch  

Francis Kirps

Francis Kirps lives and works in Lintgen (Luxembourg). He has a degree in Psychology from the University of Strasbourg. He first started publishing in student magazines in the early 1990s and in the cultural journal Cahiers Luxembourgeois in 1998.