EUPL Writing Contest
EUPL On Tour
The European Union Prize for Literature is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2018. This year, the spotlight is on all EUPL laureates since the beginning of the Prize in 2009. The EUPL is travelling across Europe to showcase our exceptional authors and illustrate the unique diversity of European literature. The map below gives you an overview of all the exciting activities we have planned and by clicking on the countries you can re-discover all of our 108 EUPL winners.
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Winners 2017
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Bianca Bellová
Czech Republic
Bianca Bellová, born in Prague in 1970, is a translator, interpreter and writer with Bulgarian roots. Her first book, Sentimentální román (Sentimental Novel), came… -
Walid Nabhan
Malta
Walid Nabhan was born in Amman, Jordan, in 1966. His family fled Al-Qbeybeh, a small village in the outskirts of Hebron, Palestine, after the 1948 war that established… -
Halldóra K. Thoroddsen
Iceland
Halldóra K. Thoroddsen was born in 1950 and is a resident of Reykjavik. She graduated from Iceland College of Education in 1976 and from Iceland Academy of the Arts in… -
Osvalds Zebris
Latvia
Osvalds Zebris, born in 1975, is a Latvian writer and journalist, holding a master's degree in economics. Zebris has worked in public relations and communications for… -
Sunjeev Sahota
United Kingdom
Sunjeev Sahota was born in 1981 in Derbyshire. His debut novel, Ours are the Streets, was called 'Nothing short of extraordinary' by the Observer, and 'A moral work of… -
Ina Vultchanova
Bulgaria
Ina Vultchanova is a journalist, writer, producer and translator from French and Russian. She has an MA in Bulgarian Philology from Sofia University St. Kliment… -
Rudi Erebara
Albania
Rudi Erebara was born in 1971. He is a poet, novelist and translator. After graduating in 1995 at the Academy of Fine Arts, he embarked on a career as a political… -
Sine Ergün
Turkey
Sine Ergün (1982) is a writer based in Istanbul, Turkey. She has published three books: Burası Tekin Değil (It’s not Safe Here, Yitik Ülke Publishing, 2010; Can… -
Jamal Ouariachi
Netherlands
Jamal Ouariachi, born in 1978, is the son of a Dutch mother and a Moroccan father. Jamal studied psychology at the University of Amsterdam and spent years working as an… -
Darko Tuševljaković
Serbia
Darko Tuševljaković was born in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 1978. Since 2002, his fiction has been published in literary magazines and anthologies in Serbia… -
Kallia Papadaki
Greece
Born in 1978 in the border town of Didymoteicho, she grew up in Thessaloniki and studied economics at Bard College and Brandeis University in the United States, and… -
Aleksandar Bečanović
Montenegro
Aleksandar Bečanović, born in 1971, is a Montenegrin writer, film critic and screenwriter. He is the author of five poetry books, Ulysses’ Distance (1994), Being…
Latest News – 13 June 2018
Interview with Sunjeev Sahota
At the end of May, EUPL 2017 UK winning author Sunjeev Sahota and 2014 UK winner Evie Wyld met at the London Review Bookshop to discuss the Prize, the state of European literature and Britain's place in the post-Brexit international literary…
Publications
EUPL Winners compilations (pdf)
- Anthology 2017
- Anthology 2016
- Anthology 2015
- Anthology 2014
- Anthology 2013
- Anthology 2012
- Anthology 2011
- Anthology 2010
- Anthology 2009