Winners 2017
-
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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 – 3 May 2017
"Booksellers are the most passionate and informed readers"
The writer Benedict Wells rarely gives interviews – but wouldn’t it be a shame to let a great conversation about Europe, populism and independent booksellers go unpublished? That was what Wells thought too.
By Stefan Hauck
You’ve held Swiss…
Publications
