Each year, the EU Prize for Literature (EUPL) recognises emerging fiction writers in Europe. Come meet the 13 laureates of the EUPL 2020 as they take you on a literary journey across the old continent. Starting in Berlin with German winner Matthias Nawrat and journalist Thomas Böhm, the EUPL laureates read excerpts from each others' awarded books, opening up windows onto people and stories coming from Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Kosovo, Luxembourg, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway and Spain.

Before we had to move our EUPL ceremony online, two of our 2020 winning authors shared their expectations, thoughts, and ideas during the weeks leading up to the event in Brussels.

Follow Francis Kirps from Luxembourg and Petar Andonovski from North Macedonia on their road to the (now digital) ceremony!

In response to the coronavirus outbreak, the European Union Prize for Literature is joining the #CreativeEuropeAtHome movement with the rest of the Creative Europe community by developping a new range of cultural initiatives online. While live events might be on hold at the moment, we stay commited to helping European stories - and European authors - cross frontiers, be it georgraphic or digital.

Find the list of our #EUPLonline activities below. Check back regularly for updates!​

Our 2019 Irish winner Jan Carson is sharing her impressions and thoughts while being confined to her home in Belfast during the COVID-19 Coronavirus outbreak. The Lockdown diary series will be updated on a weekly basis, so stay tuned to find out what's going on with Jan!  

The European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL) recognises emerging fiction writers from across Europe. During a cycle of three years, the award includes 41 countries participating in the Creative Europe programme – an initiative aiming at strengthening Europe’s cultural and creative sectors. The EUPL was launched in 2009, and since then it has recognised 122 writers, through 11 editions.

We are pleased to announce the thirteen laureates of the 2020 edition:

We are excited to reveal 47 authors and books from 13 participating countries nominated for the 2020 European Union Prize for Literature 

Two weeks after having received their Prize, three EUPL winning authors 2019 met again in Frankfurt for a thrilling discussion about their writing, EUPL and how the Prize encourages the development of European literature. On 18^th October Haska Shyyan (Ukraine), Nikos Chryssos (Greece) and Beqa Adamashvili (Georgia), gathered in the Frankfurter Pavilion at the Frankfurt Buchmesse to exchange with the audience and share their recent experience as EUPL winners, whose works are about to meet with a wider European readership.

On Wednesday, 2 October 2019, the 14 winners of the EU Prize for Literature finally gathered in Brussels at BOZAR to claim their well-deserved awards. The ceremony began with a true highlight as best-selling Finnish author Sofi Oksanen delivered an eye-opening keynote speech, emphasizing the need for a diversity of voices in literature to convey the reality of current events and human lives in different countries, but also the universal themes they share.

We are pleased to announce the fourteen laureates of the 2019 European Union Prize for Literature:

EUPL winning authors will feature at various events at the Paris Book Fair, 15 to 18 March 2019. All events will take place at the Europe Stage. 

15 March 2019

• Ioana Pârvulescu will feature at 12:00pm at an event entitled UNE HEURE EN / ROUMANIE : DEPASSER LE PASSE : 30 ANS APRES LE RETOUR EN EUROPE
   
• Magdalena Parys will feature at 14:00 at an event entitled LES BIBLIOTHÈQUES EUROPÉENNES : UN VOYAGE DANS L’EUROPE DES POLARS

16 March 2019