EU Prize for Literature 2019 winners announced

Tibor Navracsics, Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport, and Romanian Culture Minister Valer-Daniel Breaz announced the 14 winners of this year’s European Union Prize for Literature.

The Prize is awarded annually to new and emerging authors, recognising literary talent from all corners of Europe. It highlights the wealth of contemporary European literature as well as Europe’s rich cultural and linguistic heritage.

Winners

The EUPL 2019 laureates are:

Laura Fredenthaler (Austria)

• Piia Leino (Finland)

• Sophie Daull (France)

• Réka Mán-Várhegyi (Hungary)

• Beqa Adamashvili (Georgia)

• Nikos Chryssos (Greece)

• Jan Carson (Ireland)

• Giovanni Dozzini (Italy)

• Daina Opolskaite (Lithuania)

• Marta Dzido (Poland)

• Tatiana Țîbuleac (Romania)

• Ivana Dobrakovová (Slovakia)

• Halya Shyyan (Ukraine)

• Melissa Harrison (United Kingdom)

Background

The EUPL is an award which recognises outstanding new and emerging literary talents across Europe, and highlights the wealth of contemporary European literature. The prize also draws attention to the continent’s unique cultural and linguistic heritage. So far, the EUPL has awarded 108 authors from 41 countries and this year, it is announcing its first ever winners from Georgia and Ukraine.

Supported by Creative Europe, the initiative is accessible to all countries participating in this EU funding programme for the cultural and creative sectors for the current period 2014-2020.

The European Union Prize for Literature is organised by a consortium comprising the European and International Booksellers Federation (EIBF), the European Writers’ Council (EWC) and the Federation of European Publishers (FEP).

Award

The winners will receive their awards at a ceremony hosted by Commissioner Navracsics in Brussels on 2 October. Each winner will also receive a prize of €5,000.

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