Austrian State Prize for European Literature
The Austrian State Prize for European Literature is an internationally awarded prize of the Republic of Austria , which was founded by the Ministry of Education in 1964 under the name Nikolaus Lenau Prize as a literary prize . The award has been called the Austrian State Prize for European Literature since 1965 and is presented annually to European writers . There was no award ceremony in 1969. The prize is currently endowed with 25,000 euros. It is awarded on the fringes of the Salzburg Festival .
Award winners
| year | Prize winner | country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | Zbigniew Herbert | Poland | |
| 1966 | WH Auden | UK / USA | |
| 1967 | Vasko Popa | Serbia | |
| 1968 | Vaclav Havel | Czechoslovakia | |
| 1969 | Prize not awarded | ||
| 1970 | Eugène Ionesco | Romania / France | |
| 1971 | Peter Huchel | Germany | |
| 1972 | Sławomir Mrożek | Poland | |
| 1973 | Harold Pinter | Great Britain | |
| 1974 | Sándor Weöres | Hungary | |
| 1975 | Miroslav Krleža | Yugoslavia | |
| 1976 | Italo Calvino | Italy | |
| 1977 | Pavel Kohout | Czechoslovakia | |
| 1978 | Simone de Beauvoir | France | |
| 1979 | Fulvio Tomizza | Italy | |
| 1980 | Sarah Kirsch | Germany | |
| 1981 | Doris Lessing | Great Britain | |
| 1982 | Tadeusz Różewicz | Poland | |
| 1983 | Friedrich Dürrenmatt | Switzerland | |
| 1984 | Christa Wolf | Germany | |
| 1985 | Stanislaw Lem | Poland | |
| 1986 | Giorgio Manganelli | Italy | |
| 1987 | Milan Kundera | Czechoslovakia | |
| 1988 | Andrzej Szczypiorski | Poland | |
| 1989 | Marguerite Duras | France | |
| 1990 | Helmut Heißenbüttel | Germany | |
| 1991 | Péter Nádas | Hungary | |
| 1992 | Salman Rushdie | India / Great Britain | |
| 1993 | Chingis Aitmatov | Kyrgyzstan | |
| 1994 | Inger Christensen | Denmark | |
| 1995 | Aleksandar Tišma | Serbia | |
| 1996 | Juerg Laederach | Switzerland | |
| 1997 | Antonio Tabucchi | Italy | |
| 1998 | Dubravka Ugrešić | Croatia | |
| 1999 | Péter Esterházy | Hungary | |
| 2000 | Antonio Lobo Antunes | Portugal | |
| 2001 | Umberto Eco | Italy | |
| 2002 | Christoph Hein | Germany | |
| 2003 | Cees Nooteboom | Netherlands | |
| 2004 | Julian Barnes | Great Britain | |
| 2005 | Claudio Magris | Italy | |
| 2006 | Jorge Semprún | Spain | |
| 2007 | AL Kennedy | Great Britain | |
| 2008 | Ágota Kristóf | Switzerland | |
| 2009 | Per Olov Enquist | Sweden | |
| 2010 | Paul Nizon | Switzerland | |
| 2011 | Javier Marías | Spain | |
| 2012 | Patrick Modiano | France | |
| 2013 | John Banville | Ireland | |
| 2014 | Lyudmila Evgenevna Ulitskaya | Russia | |
| 2015 | Mircea Cărtărescu | Romania | |
| 2016 | Andrzej Stasiuk | Poland | |
| 2017 | Karl Ove Knausgård | Norway | |
| 2018 | Zadie Smith | Great Britain | |
| 2019 | Michel Houellebecq | France | |
| 2020 | Drago Jančar | Slovenia | |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Austrian State Prize for European Literature. In: Website of the Federal Chancellery. Retrieved May 8, 2019 .
- ↑ The polite Mr. Houellebecq. ORF , July 26, 2019, accessed on the same day.
- ^ Art report 1986 ( Memento from June 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 5.24 MB) 1986 for Giorgio Manganelli: Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Sport, Art Report 1986, page 128, Jury: Gerald Bisinger (writer, ORF), Hans Heinz Hahnl (writer and editor), Peter Marginter (BMAA, author), Roman Rocek (culture editor, ORF), Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler
- ↑ orf.at: State Prize for European Literature goes to Zadie Smith . Article dated July 3, 2018, accessed July 3, 2018.
- ↑ orf.at: State Prize for European Literature to Houellebecq . Article dated May 8, 2019, accessed May 8, 2019.
- ↑ orf.at: Drago Jancar receives State Prize for European Literature Article from March 25, 2020, accessed on March 25, 2020