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Premio Strega Europeo
The Strega European Prize ( it, Premio Strega Europeo) is an annual literary award given to a novel in Italian translation by a European author who has received national recognition in their home country. Established in 2014, it is administered—like the prestigious Strega Prize for Italian literature—by the Maria and Goffredo Bellonci Foundation. Winners * 2014 – Marcos Giralt Torrente, ''Il tempo della vita'' (Tiempo de vida), translated from Spanish by Pierpaolo Marchetti * 2015 – Katja Petrowskaja, ''Forse Esther'' (Vielleicht Esther), translated from German by Ada Vigliani * 2016 – Annie Ernaux, ''Gli anni'' ( Les années), translated from French by Lorenzo Flabbi * 2017 – Jenny Erpenbeck, ''Voci del verbo andare'' (Gehen, ging, gegangen), translated from German by Ada Vigliani * 2018 – Fernando Aramburu, ''Patria'', translated from Spanish by Bruno Arpaia * 2019 – David Diop for ''Fratelli d’anima'' * 2020 – Judith Schalansky Judith Schalansky (born 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Award
A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. Many awards are structured with one organization (usually a non-profit organization) as the presenter and public face of the award, and another organization as the financial sponsor or backer, who pays the prize remuneration and the cost of the ceremony and public relations, typically a corporate sponsor who may sometimes attach their name to the award (such as the Orange Prize). Types of awards There are awards for various writing formats including poetry and novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing (such as science fiction or politics). There are also awards dedicated to works in individual languages, such as the Miguel de Cervantes Prize (Spanish), the Camões Prize (Portuguese), the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Schalansky
Judith Schalansky (born 20 September 1980) is a German writer, book designer and publisher. Work Her book '' Atlas of Remote Islands'' won first prize in the Stiftung Buchkunst's The Most Beautiful German Books competition (German: Die schönsten deutschen Bücher) in 2009. In 2012, she won the same prize for ''The Giraffe’s Neck''. Schalansky has degrees in both art history and communication design. Since 2013, she has been the general editor of the ''Naturkunden'' series, published by Matthes & Seitz. Personal life Schalansky was born in Greifswald. She lives in Berlin with her partner, actor Bettina Hoppe. The asteroid 95247 Schalansky was named after her in 2011. Bibliography * * * * * English translations * * * * Awards and honors * 2007: Silbermedaille des Art Directors Club Deutschland for ''Fraktur mon Amour'' * 2007: Type Directors Club's Award for Typographic Excellence for ''Fraktur mon Amour'' * 2009: First Prize, Stiftung Buchkunst's "The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awards Established In 2014
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2014 Establishments In Italy
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Italian Literary Awards
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Mikhail Shishkin (writer)
Mikhail Pavlovich Shishkin (russian: Михаил Павлович Шишкин, born 18 January 1961) is a Russian-Swiss writer and the only author to have won the Russian Booker Prize (2000), the Russian National Bestseller (2005), and Big Book Prize (2010). His books have been translated into 30 languages. He also writes in German. Biography Mikhail Shishkin was born in 1961 in Moscow on 18 January 1961 to Irina Georgievna Shishkina, a Russian literature teacher, and Pavel Mikhailovich Shishkin, an engineer constructor. In 1977 Shishkin graduated from the high school #59 in the centre of Moscow in Arbat district. After the graduation from Moscow State Pedagogical Institute, where Shishkin studied German and English, he worked as a road worker, a street sweeper, journalist, school teacher, and translator. In 1995, Shishkin moved to Switzerland for family reason. He worked in Zürich within the Immigration Department and specifically with refugees as a Russian and German transl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgi Gospodinov
Georgi Gospodinov ( bg, Георги Господинов; born January 7, 1968) is a Bulgarian writer, poet and playwright. One of the most translated Bulgarian authors after 1989, he has four poetry books awarded with national literary prizes. First of them, ''Lapidarium'' (1992), won the National Debut Prize. Volumes of his selected poetry came out in German, Portuguese, Czech and Macedonian. Literary career Gospodinov became internationally known by his ''Natural novel'', which was published in 21 languages, including English (Dalkey Archive Press, 2005), German, French, Spanish, Italian, etc. ''The New Yorker'' described it as an “anarchic, experimental debut”, according to ''The Guardian'', it is “both earthy and intellectual”, Le Courrier (Geneve) calls it “a machine for stories.” ''And Other Stories'' (2001), collection of short stories, came out in German, French, English, Italian and was longlisted for Frank O'Connor Award. This is the book that contains t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Diop (novelist)
David Diop (born February 24, 1966) is a French novelist and academic, who specializes in 18th-century French and Francophone African literature. His research, at the University of Pau and the Adour Region, University of Pau in south-west France, focuses on representations of Africa in 18th-century accounts and images by travellers. Diop received the 2021 International Booker Prize for his novel ''At Night All Blood Is Black'' as the first French author (translated by Anna Moschovakis). The novel was also shortlisted for ten French awards and won them in other countries. Biography David Diop was born in Paris in 1966 to a French mother and a Senegalese father. He moved to Dakar at the age of five and spent the majority of his childhood in Senegal before returning to study in France at the age of 18 after finishing high school. Diop received a doctorate from the Paris-Sorbonne University, Sorbonne for his studies on 18th-century French literature. In 1998, he became a lecturer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strega Prize
The Strega Prize ( it, Premio Strega ) is the most prestigious Italian literary award. It has been awarded annually since 1947 for the best work of prose fiction written in the Italian language by an author of any nationality and first published between 1 May of the previous year and 30 April. History In 1944 Maria and Goffredo Bellonci started to host a literary salon at their home in Rome. These Sunday gatherings of writers, artists and intellectuals grew to include many of the most notable figures of Italian cultural life. The group became known as the ''Amici della Domenica'', or ‘Sunday Friends’. In 1947 the Belloncis, together with Guido Alberti, owner of the firm which produces the Strega liqueur, decided to inaugurate a prize for fiction, the winner being chosen by the Sunday friends. The activities of the Bellonci circle and the institution of the prize were seen as marking a tentative return to ‘normality’ in Italian cultural life: a feature of the reconstructi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando Aramburu
Fernando Aramburu ( San Sebastián, 1959) is a Spanish writer. Career He graduated in Spanish Philology from University of Zaragoza and has been living and working as a lecturer in Spanish language in Germany since 1985. His 2006 novel ''Fuegos con limón'' described his youthful experiences in ''Grupo CLOC de Arte y Desarte'', a surrealist group which published a magazine between 1978 and 1981. He won the Premio Tusquets de Novela in 2011 for his novel ''Años lentos'', and the Premio Biblioteca Breve in 2015 for ''Ávidas pretensiones''. He is considered among the most important living Spanish writers, alongside novelists like Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Andrés Pascual Andrés Pascual Carrillo de Albornoz (Logroño, La Rioja, Spain, 1969) is a Spanish writer, conference speaker and lawyer. He is also a classically trained pianist and composer, as well as being a past member of several rock bands. He currently shar ... and Eduardo Mendoza, all of them included in the so-called S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny Erpenbeck
Jenny Erpenbeck (born 12 March 1967) is a German writer and opera director, recipient of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Life Born in East Berlin, Erpenbeck is the daughter of the physicist, philosopher and writer John Erpenbeck and the Arabic translator Doris Kilias. Her grandparents are the authors Fritz Erpenbeck and Hedda Zinner. In Berlin she attended an Advanced High School, where she graduated in 1985. She then completed a two-year apprenticeship as a bookbinder before working at several theaters as props and wardrobe supervisor. From 1988 to 1990 Erpenbeck studied theatre at the Humboldt University of Berlin. In 1990 she changed her studies to Music Theater Director (studying with, among others, Ruth Berghaus, Heiner Müller and Peter Konwitschny) at the Hanns Eisler Music Conservatory. After the successful completion of her studies in 1994, with a production of Béla Bartók's opera ''Duke Bluebeard's Castle'' in her parish church and in the Kunsthaus Tac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
