Marianne Withen

"I have spent nearly all my life in the world of books. 27 years ago I bought a little bookshop at Frederiksberg in Copenhagen. Before that I was a sales representative for different Danish publishing houses for 20 years. In my early youth, I spent nearly a year working for Blackwell Scientific Publications in Oxford."

Aleksandar Bečanović

Aleksandar Bečanović, born in 1971, is a Montenegrin writer, film critic and screenwriter. He is the author of five poetry books, Ulysses’ Distance (1994), Being (1996), The Pantry (1998), Places in the Letter (2001) and Preludes and Fugues (2007); two short story collections, I am Waiting, What Will Happen Next (2005) and Obsession (2009); and three novels, Arcueil (2015), Disorder (2017) and Vlatka (2018). He has also published two books of film criticism, Genre in the Contemporary Cinema (2005) and the 900-page long Lexicon of Film Directors (2015).

Cyprus

We are happy to introduce the following jury members for Cyprus:  Giorgos Moleskis, poet, President of the jury Antonis Georgiou, writer and EUPL 2016 laureate Myrto Azina, writer and EUPL 2010 laureate Kyriakos Kyriakou, bookseller Stavros Karayanni, writer, critical theorist and associate professor at the European University of Cyprus  

Croatia

We are happy to introduce the following jury members for Croatia: Boris Perić, writer, literary translator and journalist, President of the jury Sibila Petlevski, poet, novelist, playwright, literary critic and professor at the University of Zagreb Chloé Billion, literary translator Romana Perecinec, literary translator and writer    

Spain

We are happy to introduce the following jury members for Spain: Xavier Aliaga, journalist and writer, President of the jury Antonio Avila, executive director of the Spanish Association of Publishers Guilds Dolors Udina, literary translator Sara Sanchez, bookseller (Libreria El Puerto) Fernando Valls, writer and accredited professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona  

Bosnia and Herzegovina

We are happy to introduce the following jury members for Bosnia and Herzegovina: Faruk Šehić, writer and EUPL 2013 laureate, President of the jury Edin Salčinović, writer, literary critic and culture editor (Oslobodjenje) Nenad Rizvanović, writer, literary critic and editor Tanja Stupar-Trifunović, writer and EUPL 2016 laureate Đorđe Krajišnik, literary critic and journalist (Oslobodjenje & Магазин Дани/Magazin Dani)  

Norway

We are happy to introduce the following jury members for Norway: Kari J. Spjeldnæs, publishing director (Aschehoug Forlag), President of the jury Helén Foss, bookseller, CEO of the independent bookshops Fri Bokhandel SA Anne Merethe K. Prinos, secretary general of the Norwegian Critics’ Association and literary critic Siri Odfjell Risdal, festival director for Kapittel  

Belgium

We are happy to introduce the following jury members for Belgium (French-speaking part): Gilles Collard, head of the Texts and Creative Writing programme at La Cambre - École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels, President of the jury Bernard Gérard, former director general of ADEB and Copiebel Isabelle Wéry, writer, actress and EUPL 2013 laureate Maria Paviadakis, bookseller (Librairie Melpomène)      

North Macedonia

We are happy to introduce the following jury members for North Macedonia: Elizabeta Bakovska, poet, novelist and editor-in-chief (Blesok magazine), President of the jury Vladimir Jankovski, writer, translator, editor and literary critic Aleksandar Sazdov, bookseller Gjoko Zdraveski, author and literature and poetry editor  
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