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EU Prize for Literature

EU Prize for Literature

By EUPL

The aim of the European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL) is 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.
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Recording of the event of Jan Carson and Piia Leino in the CoR, Brussels on 2 October 2019!

EU Prize for LiteratureOct 08, 2019

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EUPL Book Club on 'mystery novels' with Nathalie Skowronek
Oct 28, 202024:58
EUPL Book Club on 'short stories' with Daina Opolskaite
Sep 23, 202011:29
EUPL Book Club on 'travel' with Stavros Christodoulou

EUPL Book Club on 'travel' with Stavros Christodoulou

Our fourth EUPL book club meeting spotlighted travel. The book club read three EUPL winning novels: Death drives an Audi (Døden kører Audi) by Kristian Bang Foss (Denmark, 2013), The son (Sin) by Andrej Nikolaidis (Montenegro, 2011), and The day the river froze (Τη μέρα που πάγωσε ο ποταμός) by Stavros Christodoulou (Cyprus, 2020). This event was organised in partnership with Lit Cities - an exciting digital initiative compiling a database of novels that unveil the magic of urban tales and equip the reader with a feeling for a city‘s inhabitants, their habits and idiosyncrasies. Lit Cities is the cultural hub for the world of literature and the poetic dimension of travelling.


For our discussion on the theme, we were joined by Stavros Christodoulou, who spoke about his EUPL winning novel, upcoming new book and his writing career, as well as the cities and regions his works are based in. 


Find out more about our book club here, and stay up to date with what we're reading next. 

Aug 26, 202021:48
EUPL Book Club on 'historical fiction' with Ioana Pârvulescu and Osvalds Zebris
Jul 14, 202027:49
Women's Writes In Conversation With Lana Bastašić and Raquel Martínez-Gómez
Jun 25, 202055:56
EUPL in conversation with Walid Nabhan and Giovanni Dozzini

EUPL in conversation with Walid Nabhan and Giovanni Dozzini

Ahead of the World Refugee Day on 20 June, EUPL spoke with Walid Nabhan (Malta, 2017) and Giovanni Dozzini (Italy, 2019) highlighting topics of displacement, identity, and the role of literature in raising awareness to the challenges refugees and displaced people face globally.

Jun 19, 202033:08
Women's Writes In Conversation With Gabriela Babnik and Piia Leino
Jun 09, 202056:18
Women's Writes In Conversation With Evie Wyld and Bianca Bellová
Jun 02, 202045:23
EUPL Book Club on 'relationships' with Christophe van Gerrewey
May 29, 202015:31
Marta Dzido reading Frajda, part 3
May 12, 202032:04
EUPL and Europe Day

EUPL and Europe Day

Ahead of Europe Day this Saturday, 9 May, we spoke with three EUPL winners: Gast Groeber, our 2016 winner from Luxembourg, Haska Shyyan, our 2019 winner from Ukraine, and Immanuel Mifsud, our 2011 winner from Malta. During out talk, we explored how our winning authors experience the linguistic and cultural landscape in Europe, discussed how EUPL helped them overcome potential barriers to reach wider audiences, and spoke about the current pandemic and how that might have influenced their writing and thinking about global world.

May 07, 202032:49
Marta Dzido reading Frajda, part 2
May 05, 202034:22
Marta Dzido reading Frajda, part 1
Apr 28, 202022:06
EUPL Book Club: Dystopian fiction with Bianca Bellova, Jasmin B. Frelih, and Piia Leino

EUPL Book Club: Dystopian fiction with Bianca Bellova, Jasmin B. Frelih, and Piia Leino

Our first EUPL Book Club spotlighted dystopian fiction. We explored the worlds created by three EUPL winning authors: Jasmin B. Frelih in 'In/Half', Bianca Bellová in 'The Lake', and Piia Leino in 'Heaven'. 

Our first discussion took place on 22 April, and we were joined by our three winning authors for an engaging talk on dystopian fiction and the worlds they've created in their novels. Catch up with our discussion. 

Apr 27, 202032:16
EUPL interview with Nikos Chryssos, EUPL 2019 winner from Greece
Mar 25, 202002:13
Interview avec Sophie Daull, lauréate EUPL 2019 (France)

Interview avec Sophie Daull, lauréate EUPL 2019 (France)

Sophie Daull est la gagnante française du Prix de littérature de l'Union Européenne (EUPL) 2019. A l'occasion de sa présence à la Foire du Livre de Bruxelles le 8 mars 2020, journée internationale du droit des femmes, notre assistante EUPL française Aurore prend de ses nouvelles. La discussion aborde les retombées du prix, sa carrière d'écrivaine, la vulnérabilité de l'acte d'écriture, l'autocensure des femmes en littérature...

Sophie Daull est une comédienne et écrivaine née dans l’Est en 1965. C'est l'étude de la musique au Conservatoire National Supérieur de Strasbourg qui l'éveille très tôt à la pratique artistique. Depuis, son parcours s'oriente vers une recherche toujours plus fouillée du monde des lettres, des sons et du mouvement. Elle a dansé avec Odile Duboc, Georges Appaix et Jean Gaudin. Au théâtre, elle a travaillé avec Brigitte Jaques-Wajeman, Carole Thibaut, Jacques Lassalle, Hubert Colas, Alain Ollivier, Stéphane Braunschweig Alain Barsacq et Agathe Alexis, et plus récemment Elisabeth Chailloux et Roland Auzet.

Elle est l’auteure de Camille, mon Envolée (2015), Prix du Premier Roman du magazine Lire, de La Suture (2016) et de Au grand Lavoir (2018), publiés aux Editions Philippe Rey. Les deux premiers sont disponibles au Livre de Poche.

On entend régulièrement sa voix sur France Culture.

Mar 16, 202006:52
EUPL interview with Isabelle Wéry, EUPL 2013 winner from Belgium

EUPL interview with Isabelle Wéry, EUPL 2013 winner from Belgium

Isabelle Wéry was one of the winners from the EUPL 2013 issue, namely from Belgium. The EUPL team spoke with Isabelle ahead of a culture event with other EUPL winners in Brussels, Belgium.  

Isabelle Wéry is a Belgian actress, theatre director and author. Born in Liège, she studied acting at INSAS in Brussels until 1991. In parallel with her work as an actress with a variety of directors, she writes and creates her own theatre works.

Three times nominated for the Prix de la Critique de Théâtre Belge (for the Seul en Scène category), she received the prize in 2008 for her original theatre piece La tranche de Jean-Daniel Magnin.

Her written debut for the stage was with La mort du cochon, for which she received her first nomination for the Prix du Theatre. At the Théâtre de la Vie, she directed her two other texts: Mademoiselle Ari nue and Juke-Box et Almanach. Ceci est mon corps, based on La vie sexuelle de Catherine M by Catherine Millet, is one of her latest creations for the stage. She also wrote Le Bazar des organes for the Compagnie SKBL, touring all over France.

She is also the author of the novel Monsieur René, an imaginary biography of the Belgian actor René Hainaux, as well as Saisons culottes amis (Yvette’s Poems), published in 2010. In 2013, her short story Skaï was published as part of a collection of Belgian authors, Feuillton, and her novel Marilyn désossée was published in 2013. Find out more.

Mar 09, 202003:16
EUPL interview with David Machado, EUPL 2015 winner from Portugal

EUPL interview with David Machado, EUPL 2015 winner from Portugal

David Machado was one of the winners from the EUPL 2015 issue, namely from Portugal. The EUPL team spoke with David ahead of a culture event with other EUPL winners in Brussels, Belgium


David Machado was born in Lisbon in 1978. He has a degree in economics from ISEG, Lisbon's School of Economics and Management, but soon devoted himself to writing fiction and children's literature.


In 2005, he was awarded the Branquinho da Fonseca Prize for his children's book A Noite dos Animais Inventados and, in 2010, he was awarded the SPA/RTP Author Prize, in the category for Best Children and Youth book, for O Tubarão na Banheira.


He is the author of the short story collection Histórias Possíveis and the novels O Fabuloso Teatro do Gigante, Deixem Falar as Pedras and Índice Médio de Felicidade, as well as the children's books Os Quatro Comandantes da Cama Voadora, Um Homem Verde num Buraco Muito Fundo, A Mala Assombrada, Parece Um Pássaro and Acho Que Posso Ajudar. He has contributed work to the literary collections A Misteriosa Mulher da Ópera, Contos de Verão and O Segredo, and has published short stories in Portuguese and foreign newspapers and magazines.


Read more: https://www.euprizeliterature.eu/authors/david-machado.


Feb 28, 202005:13
EUPL interview with Carolina Schutti, EUPL 2015 winner from Austria

EUPL interview with Carolina Schutti, EUPL 2015 winner from Austria

Carolina Schutti was one of the winners from the EUPL 2015 issue, namely from Austria. The EUPL team spoke with Carolina ahead of a culture event with other EUPL winners in Brussels, Belgium

Carolina Schutti was born in 1976 in Innsbruck, where she still lives. She studied German philology, English and American Studies, concert guitar and classical voice. After several years of teaching and following her PhD on Elias Canetti, she taught at the University of Florence, followed by a post as a research assistant at Literaturhaus am Inn. From 2009-2013 she was a board member of Brenner Forum in Innsbruck as well as a member of the board of trustees of Brenner-Archiv. Her publications include essays on literary studies, literary reviews and other texts in literary magazines. She coordinates and moderates literary events and interdisciplinary projects, works as a juror, gives lectures on poetry and holds training seminars in the field of Neue Literatur.

Read more: https://www.euprizeliterature.eu/authors/carolina-schutti

Feb 12, 202001:56
EUPL interview with Gabriela Babnik, EUPL 2013 winner from Slovenia

EUPL interview with Gabriela Babnik, EUPL 2013 winner from Slovenia

Gabriela Babnik was one of the winners from the EUPL 2013 issue, namely from Slovenia. The EUPL team spoke with Gabriela ahead of a culture event with other EUPL winners in Brussels, Belgium

Gabriela Babnik was born in 1979 in Göppingen, Germany. She completed her studies in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana in 2005, where she also obtained her Master’s degree on the modern Nigerian novel in 2010. Since 2002, she has been regularly publishing literary criticism, interviews, commentary, reports and essays in literary-cultural magazines and supplements such as Literatura, Mentor, Ekran, Poetikon, Književni listi, Pogledi and others. Her first novel Koža iz bombaža (Cotton Skin, 2007) received the award for the Best Debut Novel at the Slovenian National Book Fair in 2007. Her second novel V visoki travi (In the Tall Grass, 2009) was shortlisted for the “Kresnik Award” for the best novel of the year in 2010. Her third novel, Sušna doba (Dry Season, 2012), was awarded the European Union Prize for Literature in 2013, and was translated into 13 languages. English translation of Dry season was nominated for International Dublin Literary award, and in 2016 listed amongst six best EU translated novels. Her novel Intimaley (Intimno, Beletrina, 2015) was shortlisted for the Kresnik Award. In spring 2019 her new nvel Three deaths is comming out. As a literary critic, she was honoured with the “Josip Stritar” Young Critics Award in 2013. She is also writing radio plays and short stories.

Read more: https://www.euprizeliterature.eu/authors/gabriela-babnik 

Feb 07, 202001:09
Recording of the event of Jan Carson and Piia Leino in the CoR, Brussels on 2 October 2019!

Recording of the event of Jan Carson and Piia Leino in the CoR, Brussels on 2 October 2019!

Oct 08, 201901:00:56
EUPL interview with Marta Dzido, EUPL 2019 winner from Poland
Jun 24, 201925:56
EUPL interview with Giovanni Dozzini, EUPL 2019 winner from Italy
Jun 18, 201939:38
EUPL interview with Piia Leino, EUPL 2019 winner from Finland
Jun 17, 201924:09
EUPL interview with Jan Carson, EUPL 2019 winner from Ireland
Jun 13, 201915:32
EUPL interview with Ófeigur Sigurðsson, EUPL 2011 winner from Iceland
Apr 30, 201913:20