The effect of literary awards on the European exchange of ideas 

On Thursday 09/05, from 7pm, in the heart of Madrid, at Librería La Buena Vida — Café Del Libro, EUPL laureates Luka Bekavac (HR), Raquel Martínez-Gómez (ES), and Undinė Radzevičiūtė (LT) will discuss their lives as authors and the impact that translation has had on their literary prominence in the wake of winning the EUPL.

Five EUPL laureates will be appearing during the 2021 BookForum of Lviv. Catch the virtual events with: 

Isabelle Wéry (Belgium, 2013)

Kallia Papadaki (Greece, 2017)

Irene Solà (Spain, 2020)

Gerda Blees (Netherlands, 2021)

All in conversations with Haska Shyyan (Ukraine, 2019)

Missed this event? Listen to the podcast recording of the discussion with Christophe van Gerrewey here. 

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Looking for new reading material? Want to engage with readers from all over the world? Want to discover books from emerging fiction writers? Join us for a digital EUPL Book Club!

On February 6th, 2020, EUPL 2013 laureate Isabelle Wéry (Belgium) will have "carte blanche" at theatre Le140 in Brussels. The actress, playwright and novelist invited EUPL winners David Machado (Portugal 2015), Gabriela Babnik (Slovenia 2013) and Carolina Schutti (Austria 2015) for a literary and musical evening. The four authors will gather around belgian philosopher and writer Laurent de Sutter to discuss the stories we write in Europe, how they differ or not from one place to another and what brings us all together.

On 30 October, 2020, our laureate Stefan Bošković (Montenegro, 2020) will be in Sarajevo for Bookstan, one of the major literary festivals of the Balkan. He will be talking about his EUPL-winning book 'Ministar' with writer, translator and literary journalist Vladimir Arsenić.

For more information: https://www.bookstan.ba/

EUPL winners Dulce Maria Cardoso (Portugal), Afonso Cruz (Portugal) Raquel Martínez-Gómez (Spain) will participate in an event that explores the role of literature in Europe in the face of new political challenges. Today, Europe is mired in a debate about its future which is being drawn ever more towards  the political forefront in advance of the EU Parliamentary Elections in May. Rising populist movements question European values while new proposals emerge aiming to revitalize the European project. The event will thus explore such developments from a literary point of view. 

Tune in to Trafika Europe radio every Sunday to catch the interview series: "Spotlighting the EU Prize for Literature". In November and December, we will hear from the following EUPL laureates:

7 November: Magdalena Parys (Poland, 2015) - 6pm CET

14 November: Ófeigur Sigurðsson (Iceland, 2011) - 6pm CET

21 November: Jan Carson (Ireland, 2019) - 6pm CET

5 December: Anja Mugerli (Slovenia, 2021)  - 6pm CET

Looking for new reading material? Want to engage with readers from all over the world? Want to discover books from emerging fiction writers? Join us for a digital EUPL Book Club!

Three of our laureates will be joining (physical!) events during the 2021 Warszawskie Targi Książki / Warsaw Book Fair. Catch them on:

10 September - 5.00pm - Piotr Pazinski (Poland, 2012)

11 September - 1.00pm - Matthias Nawrat (Germany, 2020)

12 September - 11.00am - Magdalena Parys (Poland, 2015)