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The European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL), supported by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, is an annual initiative to recognise the best emerging fiction writers in Europe.
The Prize 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.
Since 2009, EUPL has recognized 176 authors. The works of the selected winners are promoted in the hopes to reach a wider and international audience, and to touch readers beyond national and linguistic borders.
Our 2024 Nominees
Have a look at our outstanding authors below.
You can access their personal profiles by clicking on their names.
Recent updates
30 May 24
The event will take place on Thursday, 30 May at 18:00, at Mladinska knjiga Ljubljana - Konzorcij, and will consist in Tina presenting her EUPL nominated book Na Klancu (On the Slope - Mladi
16 May 24
20η Διεθνής Έκθεση Βιβλίου Θεσσαλονίκης (thessalonikibookfair.gr)
09 May 24
The event will take place on Saturday, 9 May at 18:00, at Könyvek Boltja (Ady E. utca 18.
EUPL 2021 Award Ceremony
European Union Prize for Literature looks forward to the 2021 Award Ceremony in Brussels
The European Union Prize for Literature reveals 2021 Anthology
The EUPL Consortium, comprising of the European Writers’ Council (EWC), the Federation of European Publishers (FEP) and the European and International Booksellers Federation (EIBF), leading the European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL), is happy – together with the European Commission – to reveal the 2021 edition of its yearly European Stories publication: the EUPL 2021 Anthology.
European Union Prize for Literature announces 2021 shortlist
We are excited to reveal 55 authors and books from 14 participating countries nominated for the 2021 European Union Prize for Literature
EUPL reviews: where EUPL winners reflect on books from their co-laureates
This summer, we launched this exciting series on #EUPLreviews, where our EUPL laureates read and review other EUPL winning books. In the latest installment, Noémi Szécsi, laureate of the prize for Hungary in 2009, read 'Heaven', the EUPL winning book of our 2019 laureate from Finland, Piia Leino. Noémi shares her thoughts on the book below .
(Re)watch the EUPL 2020 laureates on "A journey through European Stories"
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.
Road to the EUPL Ceremony 2020
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!
EUPL Digital Initiatives
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!
Jan Carson's Lockdown Diary
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!