The European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL), established in 2009, is a European Unionliterary award. Its aim is to recognise outstanding new literary talents from all over Europe, to promote the circulation and translation of literature amongst European countries, and to highlight the continent's creativity and diversity.[1]
The EUPL is funded by the "Creative Europe" programme, the European Commission framework programme for support to the culture and audiovisual sectors. The prize is run by a group of associations made up of the European Writers' Council, the Federation of European Publishers, and the European and International Booksellers Federation, with support from the European Commission. The EUPL Consortium is responsible for the setting up of national juries and the practical organisation of the EUPL award ceremony. They support the laureates in their promotion across Europe and beyond, online and at bookshops and book fairs' events.
Initial format
Each year, national juries consisting of experts in fields of literature, publishing and bookselling are set up in a rotating third of the participating countries to the Creative Europe programme. After deciding on a shortlist of 2 to 5 books from their country's most promising writers, each jury selects its national winner. All participating countries are thus represented across cycles of three years, with the Prize awarding one winning book/author per country. The current list of participating countries include:[2]
The 28 Member States of the European Union (as of 2013)
The 3 EEA countries: Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway
The candidate and potential candidate countries for accession to the EU: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Turkey.
In 2022, the European Commission announced several changes in the prize's structure, indicating that from now, national organisations would make an initial selection of books, nominating one book each, and that a second round of selection conducted by a seven-member European jury would select one winner and five special mentions for the award.[3]
In response to these changes, the European Writers' Council announced that they would withdraw participation in the prize, stating that the new format "does not promote multilingualism."[4]
Prize
Each laureate of the EUPL receives €5,000, and their awarded book is given support for translation, as well as promotion. An EUPL anthology is also published every year, with excerpts from all laureates' awarded books both in the original language and in an English or French translation.[2]
Winners
2009
Winners for 2009 were announced in November 2009.[2]
The winners were announced in April 2015, at the opening ceremony of the London Book Fair by Tibor Navracsics, the European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport at the time.[10]
: Carolina Schutti, Einmal muss ich über weiches Gras gelaufen sein
In 2018, the European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL) celebrated its 10th anniversary. To mark this special occasion, the EUPL organised a writing contest exclusively open to all previous 108 EUPL winners.[26] The EUPL Anniversary Edition (a short fiction competition) celebrated 5 winners:
: Amine Al Ghozzi (أمين الغزي), زندالي ليلة 14 جانفي 2011(Zindali laylat 14 janfi 2011)
2022
The 2022 edition introduced a change in the organisation of the Prize. For the first time, a seven-member European jury awarded one overall winner for this edition, accompanied by five special mentions.[30][1]
The European Union promotes the transnational circulation of literature and its diversity in Europe and beyond.[33] The list below shows a sample of the list of EUPL awarded books available in an English translation:
Selja Ahava, Things that fall from the sky, Oneworld Publications, 2015
↑ "Winners of 2010 EU Prize for Literature honoured at award ceremony." European Union News 22 November 2010. Infotrac Newsstand. Retrieved 11 October 2012.
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