Austrian State Prize for European Literature
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The Austrian State Prize for European Literature (Österreichischem Staatpreis für Europäische literatur), also known as the European Literary Award (Europäischer Literaturpreis), is a literary prize in Austria awarded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Art to European writers. Established in Vienna in 1965, the prize is endowed with a purse of 25,000 € (2007).[1]
[edit] Award winners
- 2007: A. L. Kennedy
- 2006: Jorge Semprun
- 2005: Claudio Magris
- 2004: Julian Barnes
- 2003: Cees Nooteboom
- 2002: Christoph Hein
- 2001: Umberto Eco
- 2000: António Lobo Antunes
- 1999: Dubravka Ugrešić
- 1998: Antonio Tabucchi
- 1997: Jürg Laederach
- 1996: Aleksandar Tišma
- 1995: Ilse Aichinger
- 1994: Inger Christensen
- 1993: Chinghiz Aitmatov
- 1992: Salman Rushdie
- 1991: Péter Nádas
- 1990: Helmut Heissenbüttel
- 1989: Marguerite Duras
- 1988: Andrzej Szczypiorski
- 1987: Milan Kundera
- 1986: Stanislaw Lem
- 1984: Christa Wolf
- 1983: Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- 1982: Tadeusz Różewicz
- 1981: Doris Lessing
- 1980: Sarah Kirsch
- 1978: Simone de Beauvoir
- 1976: Italo Calvino
- 1975: Pavel Kohout
- 1974: Sándor Weöres
- 1973: Harold Pinter
- 1972: Peter Huchel
- 1972: Sławomir Mrożek
- 1971: Eugène Ionesco
- 1968: Václav Havel
- 1965: Zbigniew Herbert
- W. H. Auden
- Vasko Popa
[edit] References
- ^ Austrian Staatpreis news release on 2007 prizewinner, A. L. Kennedy and past winners. Last accessed: March 7, 2008.
