European Union Literature prize(s)

Twelve European authors were awarded the European Union Prize for Literature earlier this month. The prizes will be presented during an Award ceremony in Brussels on 28 September.

Euroalert.net says, "The aim of the European Union Prize for Literature is to put the spotlight on the creativity and diverse wealth of Europe’s contemporary literature, to promote the circulation of literature within Europe and encourage greater interest in non-national literary works."

The prize will be awarded in three phases, in the years 2009, 2010 and 2011, with 11 or 12 winners each time. By 2011, a winner will have been announced for each of the 34 countries participating in the EU Culture Programme. Very muhibah!

The first twelve winners of the European Prize for Literature are:

AUSTRIA – Mr. Paulus Hochgatterer, for The Sweetness of Life
CROATIA – Mrs. Mila Pavicevic, for Ice Girl and other fairy-tales
FRANCE – Mrs. Emmanuelle Pagano, for Les Adolescents Troglodytes
HUNGARY – Mrs. Szécsi Noémi, for Communist Monte Cristo
IRELAND - Mrs. Karen Gillece, for Longshore Drift
ITALY - Mr. Daniele Del Giudice, for Movable Horizon
LITHUANIA - Mrs.Laura Sintija Černiauskaitė, for Breathing into Marble
NORWAY - Mr. Carl Frode Tiller, for Encirclement
POLAND – Mr. Jacek Dukaj, for ICE
PORTUGAL – Mrs. Dulce Maria Cardos, for Os Meus Sentimentos
SLOVAKIA – Mr. Pavol Rankov, for It Happened on September the First (or whenever)
SWEDEN – Mrs. Helena Henschen, for The Shadow of a Crime

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