As part of the festival EUROPALIA Romania 2019, on 13 November 2019, a debate on Migration / Multilingualism will take place at the House of European History (Brussels, Belgium) in collaboration with The European Union Prize for Literature. Writers Tatiana Tibuleac who received this year European Union Prize for Literature 2019, and Claudiu Florian, who was also awarded the same prize in 2016, will participate in this encounter, moderated by Anne Bergman-Tahon, director of the Federation of European Publishers. 

In a joint partnership together with the Lesesaal Buchhandlung bookshop from Hamburg, Germany, EUPL is excited to announce the first EUPL Book Club event in a bookshop! For their first event, Lesesaal has chosen the book of EUPL 2020 laureate Matthias Nawrat, Der traurige Gast (The Sad Guest), published by Rowohlt Verlag. 

The reading circle

As part of BookFest Digital, the online program of the Frankfurt Book Fair, our 13 laureates of the EUPL2020 will take you on a journey through European literature. 

BookFest Digital will be broadcasted all day on 17 October. 

Details to be commuicated.

On Saturday 25 September 2021, the European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL) and the House of European History are joining forces to celebrate Multilingualism Day. Four EUPL laureates will become museum guides for the day and take you on their literary journeys through history.

The winning authors are : Masa Kolanovic (Croatia in 2020), Nathalie Skowronek (Belgium in 2020), Stavros Christodoulou (Cyprus in 2020) and Giovanni Dozzini (Italy in 2019) 

On 26 July, Sumari Raamatukohvik (Sumari Book Café) of Muhu will host the writer Mudlum (Made Luiga). She will be speaking about her newest book “Poola poisid” (Polish Boys).

In 2017, Mudlum was awarded the Friedebert Tuglas Award for her short story “Ilma alguse, ilma lõputa” (Without a Beginning, Without an End). This year, Polish Boys won Mudlum the annual award of the Estonian Cultural Endowment and the European Union Prize for Literature for Estonia.

EUPL 2017 laureate Bianca Bellova from Czech Republic will present 'El lago', the Spanish translation of her EUPL winning book Jezero (2016) in the bookshop Amapolas en octubre in Madrid.

The event is co-organized by the Czech Cultral Centre of Madrid, the publishing house Tres Hermanas, the bookshop Amapolas en octubre, and the Czech Leteray Centre. 

More information following this link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1267151306814634/

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!

Our third book club discussion spotlighted historical fiction, and we explored three novels. To be able to participate in the book club, you only needed to read one. 

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. 

On 15 April at 7PM UK time, our laureates Evie Wyld (UK 2014) and Bianca Bellová (Czech Republic 2017) will do a Q&A with the female-led online book club Women's Writes.

Listen to the recording from the event here: https://anchor.fm/eupl/episodes/Womens-Writes-In-Conversation-With-Evie-Wyld-and-Bianca-Bellov-eet8t4 

On 25 April 2019, at Brussels’ Bozar, from 8pm, EUPL winners Jelena Lengold (Serbia), Faruk Šehić (Bosnia) and Lada Žigo (Croatia) will join Slovenian author Suzana Tratnik for a literary discussion on whether and how the idea of being ‘formerly Yugoslavian’ affects their work. This event is part of the programme for Balkan Trafik 2019, a festival which for the past 12 years has highlighted the cultural richness and diversity of the Balkan nations as well as their relationship with Brussels.