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.
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‘We defended SKS as publishers’ says jury chair Albert Marshall over EUPL disqualification
EU literature prize disqualification: Maltese jury that presented short-list to Brussels says it went back to EUPL with letter justifying SKS’s record as publisher
13 May 2021, 12:08pm
by Matthew Vella
But it defended the corpus of work published by Sensiela Klabb Soċjalisti, in a letter to the EUPL detailing the corpus of work it had published and which included both works of fiction as well as political and party publications.
Jury chair Albert Marshall, who took the place of poet Leanne Ellul after she resigned the post, said it was the EUPL which confirmed that it would not accept an SKS publication because of its party affiliation.
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The winners of 2021 prize will be announced on May 18 during an online ceremony.
Three Tunisian novels are among 50 books from 14 countries on the short-list for the European Union Prize for Literature 2021 (EUPL) which is funded by the European Commission’s Creative Europe programme.
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According to the Creative Europe Desk in Tunisia, “for the first time, Tunisia and the Arabic language will be represented in this prestigious competition”, through the novel “Zindali, La Nuit du 14 janvier 2011” by Amin Al-Ghazzi (Zeineb editions).
MEP Alfred Sant has questioned regulations governing the European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL) and has called on the European Commission to explain why writers nominated for the prize are automatically disqualified if they have been published by a political party publishing house.
The rules governing the EUPL would, therefore, exclude Maltese writers whose works were published by PIN Publications and SKS Publishers due to their political affiliation.
In a parliamentary question, Sant, who heads the Labour Party s delegation in the European Parliament, stated that the condition excluding writers published by houses owned or affiliated to a political party does not feature in the rules published on the website of the European Union Prize for Literature.