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European Union Prize for Literature: The 2021 Winners
This year, the European Union Prize for Literature goes to writers from Albania, Armenia, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Iceland, Latvia, Malta, Moldova, the Netherlands, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden, and Tunisia.
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Today (May 18), that program has named 13 authors its new laureates.
Just to refresh your awards-crowded memory, in this instance, participating member-states rotate annually, and the program is financed by the European Commission’s Creative Europe program. A third of the countries compete annually.
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Overall, the European Union Prize reaches 41 nations under the Creative Europe umbrella. Each nation’s shortlist is selected by a national jury. And in the prize announcement, each winning title was named by a representative of its national jury.
Five Czech authors have been nominated for the European Union Prize for Literature awarded annually to new and emerging writers. They are Anna Bolavá, Miřenka Čechová, Lucie Faulerová, Matěj Hořava and Daniel Hradecký.
The winners will be announced on May 18 while the award ceremony will take place in Brussels in late September, Czech jury chairman Pavel Mandys told the ČTK news agency.
The award, which includes a 5,000 euros cash prize, was first given out in 2009. It aims to provide a forum for European writers little known outside of their home countries. Three Czechs have won the prize: Bianca Bellová (2017), Jan Němec (2014) and Tomáš Zmeškal (2011).