Ovid Prize

Ovid Prize
Ovid Prize
Presented by Romanian Cultural Institute and Romanian Writers' Union
Location Neptun, Romania
First awarded 2002
Official website http://www.uniuneascriitorilor.ro/externe.php

The Ovid Prize, established in 2002, is a literary prize awarded annually to an author from any country, in recognition of a body of work. Past recipients include Orhan Pamuk[1], Andrei Codrescu[2], Amoz Oz[3], Jorge Semprún[4] and António Lobo Antunes. It is named in honour of the Roman poet Ovid, who died in exile in Tomis (contemporary Constantza), on the Black Sea, in Romania. Laureates are awarded 10,000 euros.

The Ovid Festival Prize, worth 5,000 euros, was also established in 2002. Past recipients include George Szirtes, Tomaž Šalamun, and Ismail Kadare. The prize underwent a change of mandate in 2007. Since 2008, it has been awarded to a prominent young talent.

Both Prizes are the joint initiative of the Writers' Union of Romania and the Romanian Cultural Institute (Romanian: Institutul Cultural Român). The winners are nominated by the Festival jury. The awards ceremony takes place during the Days and Nights of Literature Festival (Romanian: Zile şi nopţi de literatură) held jointly in Neptun and Mangalia in June. The Prize is also referred to as the Ovidius Prize.

The 2011 Laureate was the Czech writer Milan Kundera. In a letter addressed to the chairman of the jury, Milan Kundera, who could not attend the ceremony, accepted the award. Kundera donated the prize to Humanitas Publishing House which has published most of his works in a Romanian translation, with the mention that the money should go to assisting Romanian literature.[5]

Contents

List of Laureates

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

Amos Oz

2003

2002

Notes

References

  1. ^ "Orhan Pamuk: Awards and Honours". http://www.orhanpamuk.net/prizes.aspx. 
  2. ^ "Andrei Codrescu: Going Home Again". http://www.downtownexpress.com/de_178/thepennypost.html. 
  3. ^ "Amos Oz receives Romanian Ovidius Prize". http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P1-99290360.html. 
  4. ^ "Ovid Literary Prize Awarded to Spanish Author Jorge Semprun". http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-67924576.html. 
  5. ^ "Nine o'clock.ro". http://www.nineoclock.ro/milan-kundera-and-ognjen-spahic-awarded-at-%E2%80%9Cdays-and-nights-of-literature%E2%80%9D-festival/#hide. 
  6. ^ "Milan Kundera - laureatul din 2011 al Marelui Premiu Ovidius". http://www.adevarul.ro/locale/constanta/Milan_Kundera_-_laureatul_din_2011_al_Marelui_Premiu_Ovidius_0_498550191.html. 
  7. ^ "Jean d'Ormesson reçoit le prix Ovide". http://www.roumanie.com/Jean-d-Ormesson-recoit-le-prix-Ovide-en-Roumanie-A3257.html. 
  8. ^ "Péter Esterházy şi Joey Goebel – premiaţi la „Zile şi nopţi de literatură“". http://www.observatorcultural.ro/*articleID_21952-articles_details.html. 
  9. ^ "Orhan Pamuk: Awards and Honours". http://www.orhanpamuk.net/prizes.aspx. 
  10. ^ "Romania Culturala". http://www.romaniaculturala.ro/articol.php?cod=10385. 
  11. ^ "Andrei Codrescu: Going Home Again". http://www.downtownexpress.com/de_178/thepennypost.html. 
  12. ^ "Romania Culturala". http://www.romaniaculturala.ro/articol.php?cod=10385. 
  13. ^ "Among the participants, Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, who received the festival's Ovidius Prize". http://crib.mae.ro/index.php?lang=en&id=31&s=4167&arhiva=true. 
  14. ^ "Romania Culturala". http://www.romaniaculturala.ro/articol.php?cod=10385. 
  15. ^ "Amos Oz receives Romanian Ovidius Prize". http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P1-99290360.html. 
  16. ^ "Romania Culturala". http://www.romaniaculturala.ro/articol.php?cod=10385. 
  17. ^ "Romania Culturala". http://www.romaniaculturala.ro/articol.php?cod=10385. 
  18. ^ "Romania Culturala". http://www.romaniaculturala.ro/articol.php?cod=10385. 
  19. ^ "Romania Culturala". http://www.romaniaculturala.ro/articol.php?cod=10385. 

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