The Aristeion Prize was a European literary annual prize. It was given to authors for significant contributions to contemporary European literature, and to translators for exceptional translations of contemporary European literary works. The prize was established by the European Council in May 1989 as a way to promote of books and reading. Each year a jury composed of members selected by

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countries decided on the winners. Works eligible for prizes had to be published in the three years preceding the date for the submission of entries. It was awarded in a different Capital of Culture each year. It was first awarded in

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in 1990 and was awarded every year until 1999 in

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. It was then discontinued and replaced by the EU's Culture 2000 programme, itself succeeded by the

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Winners

European Literary Prize

European Translation Prize

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Michael Hamburger Michael Peter Leopold Hamburger (22 March 1924 – 7 June 2007) was a noted German-British translator, poet, critic, memoirist and academic. He was known in particular for his translations of Friedrich Hölderlin, Paul Celan, Gottfried Benn and ...

(United Kingdom) , , Paul Celan: ''Poems of Paul Celan'' , - , 1991 , ,

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, , Frans van Woerden (Netherlands) , ,

Louis-Ferdinand Céline Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches (27 May 1894 – 1 July 1961), better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline ( , ) was a French novelist, polemicist and physician. His first novel ''Journey to the End of the Night'' (1932) won the '' Pr ...

: '' De Brug van Londen - Guignol's Band II'' , - , 1992 , ,

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James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of ...

: '' Ulysses'' , - , 1993 , , Antwerp , , Françoise Wuilmart (Belgium) , ,

Ernst Bloch Ernst Simon Bloch (; July 8, 1885 – August 4, 1977; pseudonyms: Karl Jahraus, Jakob Knerz) was a German Marxist philosopher. Bloch was influenced by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Marx, as well as by apocalyptic and religious thinkers ...

: ''Das Prinzip Hoffnung'' , - , 1994 , , Lisbon , , Giovanni Raboni (Italy) , , Marcel Proust: '' À la recherche du temps perdu'' , - , 1995 , ,

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, , Dieter Hornig (Austria) , ,

Henri Michaux Henri Michaux (; 24 May 1899 – 19 October 1984) was a Belgian-born French poet, writer and painter. Michaux is renowned for his strange, highly original poetry and prose, and also for his art: the Paris Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim ...

: ''Un barbare en Asie'' , - , 1996 , ,

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, , Thorkild Bjørnvig (Denmark) , , Rainer Maria Rilke: ''Udsat på hjertets bjerge'' (Selected Poems) , - , 1997 , ,

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, , Hans-Christian Oeser (Germany / Ireland*) , , Patrick McCabe: '' The Butcher Boy'' , - , 1998 , , Stockholm , , Miguel Sáenz (Spain) , , Günter Grass: ''Ein weites feld'' , - , 1999 , ,

, , Claus Bech (Denmark) , , Flann O'Brien: '' The Third Policeman'' * Oeser was a German translator nominated by Ireland.

External links

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