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

EUPL will be at the London Book Fair, taking place March 12-14, to hand out copies of the winning European Stories from 2018's short fiction competition commemorating the 10th anniversary of the EUPL. 

Undinė Radzevičiūtė, 2015's Lithuanian winner, will be appearing at the Riga Book Fair on March 3rd at 11am in support of a recent Latvian translation of her winning text Žuvys ir drakonai as well as of her recent publication Kraujas melynas. Both novels were translated into Latvian by Dace Meiere and were published respectively by Mansards and Janis Roze in 2019.

Paavo Matsin, 2016's Estonian winner, will be appearing at the Riga Book Fair on March 2nd at 2pm in support of a recent Latvian translation of his winning text Gogoli disko. It was translated by Maima Grīnberga and published by Janis Roze in 2019. 

Bianca Bellová, 2017's Czech winner, will be appearing at the Riga Book Fair on March 1st at 1pm at the Writers' Lounge in support of a recent Latvian translation of her winning text Jezero. It was translated by Halina Lapina and published by Pētergailis in 2018. The event will be organised by Publishing House “Pētergailis”.