Young Europeans Literary Award
The Young Europeans Literary Award started in 2008. Its goal is to promote European culture. The European Union National Institutes for Culture organises it.[1] Each year 26 books are short listed, one book from each member of the European Union.
Selected books for 2016
| Country | Author | Book title | Editor | Translator | |
| 1. | Romania | Matéi Visniec | Monsieur K. libéré | Non lieu, 2013 | Faustine Vega |
| 2. | England | Neil Gaiman | L’océan au bout du chemin | Au diable Vauvert, 2014 | Patrick Marcel |
| 3. | England | David Nicholls | Pour une fois | Valérie Bourgeois | |
| 4. | Spain | Isaac Rosa | Le pays de la peur | Christian Bourgeois, 2014 | Vincent Raynaud |
| 5. | Spain | Juan Carlos Méendez Guédez | Mambo canaille | Zinnia, 2014 | Nicole Rochaix-Salmona |
| 6. | Germany | Olga Grjasnowa | La Russe aime les bouleaux | Les Escales, 2014 | Pieere Deshusses |
| 7. | Germany | Astrid Rosenfeld | Le legs d'Adam | Gallimard, 2014 | Bernard Lortholary |
| 8. | Italy | Marta Morazzoni | La note secrète | Actes Sud, 2012 | Marguerite Pozzoli |
| 9. | Italy | Michela Marzano | Tout ce que je sais de l'amour | Stock, 2014 | |
| 10. | Greece | Petros Markaris | Pain, éducation, liberté | Seuil, 2014 | Michel Volkovitch |
| 11. | Portugal | João Ricardo Pedro | La main de Joseph Castrop | Viviane Hamy, 2013 | Elisabeth Monteiro Rodrigues |
| 12. | Portugal | Jose Luis Peixoto | Le cimetière des pianos | Grasset, 2009 | François Rosso |
| 13. | Italy | Elvira Dones | Une petite guerre parfaite | Métailié, 2013 | Leila Pailhés |
| 14. | Austria | Milena Michiko Flasar | La cravate | L'Olivier, 2013 | Olivier Mannoni |
| 15. | Belgium | Caroline de Mulder | Bye Bye Elvis | Actes Sud, 2013 | |
| 16. | Croatia | Daša Drundić | Sonnenschien | Gallimard, 2013 | Gojko Lukić |
| 17. | Denmark | Helle Helle | Au présent | Buchet Chastel, 2014 | Catherine Lise Dubost |
| 18. | Finland | Roop Lipasti | Le voisin | Gaïa, 2014 | Claire Saint-Germain |
| 19. | Ireland | Paul Lynch | Un ciel rouge, le matin | Albin Michel, 2014 | Marina Boraso |
| 20. | Iceland | Audur Ava Olafsdottir | L'exception | Zulma, 2014 | Catherine Eyjolfosson |
| 21. | Norway | Linn Ullmann | Et maintenant il ne faut plus pleurer | Actes Sud, 2014 | Céline Romand-Monnier |
| 22. | Netherlands | Anton Valens | Poisson | Actes Sud, 2013 | Annie Kroon |
| 23. | Poland | Joanna Bator | Le Mont-de-sable | Noir sur Blanc, 2014 | Caroline Raszka-Dewez |
| 24. | Sweden | Amanda Svenson | Bienvenue dans ce monde | Actes Sud, 2014 | Esther Sermage |
Organisations that help
- Goethe-Institut
- Instituto Camões
- Instituto Cervantès
- Instituto italiano Archived 2015-05-12 at the Wayback Machine
- British Council
- Maison de l’Europe et des Européens Archived 2015-04-17 at the Wayback Machine
Awards given already
- 2009 - The Nubian Princess by Juan Bonilla, a Spanish author.[1]
- 2014 - Le blues du braqueur de banque by Flemming Jensen
- 2015 - Maurice and Mahmoud by Flemming Jensen.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Young Europeans Literary Award". lyon.eunic-online.eu. 2015. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
Other websites
- Site officiel
- BBA INSEEC Archived 2015-04-17 at the Wayback Machine
- Page Youtube officielle PLJE