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 | |
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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