Digital EUPL book club - Travel
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!
EUPL laureates at BookForum Lviv
The Ukrainian BookForum of Lviv is moving online from 16 to 20 September. Over these 5 days, the event will feature 5 of our EUPL laureates across various digital talks: Haska Syyan (Ukraine, 2019), Jan Carson (Ireland, 2019), Lana Bastašić (Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2020), Maša Kolanović (Croatia, 2020), and Marta Dzido (Poland, 2019).
Keep an eye out for these conversations on 18 September here (2.30 to 3.30 pm local time) and here (4 pm to 5 pm local time).
Announcement of 2019 EUPL Laureates
The 14 winning authors of the 2019 European Union Prize for Literature were announced on 22 May 2019 at the Permanent Representation of Romania to the European Union.
The 14 winning authors are:
• Laura Fredenthaler (Austria)
• Piia Leino (Finland)
• Sophie Daull (France)
• Réka Mán-Várhegyi (Hungary)
• Beqa Adamashvili (Georgia)
• Nikos Chryssos (Greece)
• Jan Carson (Ireland)
David Machado at the Panama International Book Fair
Portuguese writer and EUPL 2015 laureate David Machado will be participating in the Panama International Book Fair 2020, which will take place online.
EUPL at Bogladen ved Søerne / Copenhagen, Denmark
On Tuesday 28/05, from 4pm, in the heart of Copenhagen, at Bogladen ved Søerne, EUPL laureates Kristian Bang Foss (DK), Meelis Friedenthal (EE), and Riku Korhonen (FI) will discuss their lives as authors and the impact that translation has had on their literary prominence in the wake of winning the EUPL.
Stefan Bošković at Gradske knjižare (Podgorica, Montenegro)
EUPL2020 laureate Stefan Bošković (Montenegro) will be promoting his EUPL-winning book ‘Ministar’ at the Gradske knjižare bookshop in Podgorica, Montenegro. The event, which will take place outdoor from 8:30pm, will be hosted by Montenegrin comedian and guitarist Aleksandar Radunović Popaj.
More information: https://www.facebook.com/events/892939644517518/
EUPL at Librería La Buena Vida / Madrid, Spain
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.
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25 Aug 20
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!
05 Feb 20
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.
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.
The EUPL 10th Anniversary Edition
10th anniversary
In 2018, the European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL) celebrated its 10th anniversary. To mark this special occasion, we organised a virtual and physical journey through the literary Europe, in addition to hosting a writing contest exclusively open to all previous 108 EUPL winners, who won the award between 2009 and 2017.
Since its creation in 2009, the EUPL aims to put the spotlight on the creativity and diverse wealth of Europe’s contemporary literature in the field of fiction, to promote the circulation of literature within Europe, and to encourage greater interest in non-national literary works.
The Prize, which is co-financed by the Creative Europe programme of the European Commission, aims to achieve three main goals: to promote cross-border mobility of those working in the cultural sector; to encourage the transnational circulation of cultural and artistic output; and to foster intercultural dialogue.
EUPL Writing Contest
The EUPL Writing Contest “A European Story: EUPL Winners Write Europe” was a unique short fiction competition that celebrated Europe, literature and – above all – 10 years of the European Union Prize for Literature.
36 EUPL winning authors from a total of 26 different countries have participated in this contest. Their stories, in both original versions and translations, are available in the publication on this website. We encourage you to read each of these fascinating European stories.
Announcing the winners
The EUPL Anniversary Edition celebrated 5 winners: Jean Back (Luxembourg), Lidija Dimkovska (North Macedonia), Gast Groeber (Luxembourg), Jelena Lengold (Serbia), and Ioana Pârvulescu (Romania). Discover their winning stories in their original language, and translated into English, here.
The winners of the writing contest were determined through a combination of a public and professional vote. The public vote was open until 21 October 2018, while the professional vote was judged by a professional jury, made up of distinguished experts from the field of literature, including literary critics, journalists, authors as well as booksellers, in autumn 2018.
The members of the professional jury included Maria-João Costa (Portugal), Nina George (Germany), Juancho Pons (Spain), Cathy Rentzenbrink (United Kingdom), Liana Sakelliou (Greece) and Marnix Verplancke (Belgium).
The winners of the different categories were announced at the Awards Ceremony taking place in Vienna in November 2018.
EUPL laureates at Sofia Book Fair 2021
Four EUPL laureates will take part in the International Literary Festival of Sofia these coming 7 to 12 December. As the festival will be held online, all talks will be accessible to watch via a livestream on the fair's Facebook page.
Make sure to catch the following conversations: