Austrian State Prize for European Literature

Austrian State Prize for European Literature

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). [ [http://www.austria.gv.at/site/infodate__22.10.2007/5396/default.aspx?wai=true#id25414 Austrian Staatpreis news release] on 2007 prizewinner, A. L. Kennedy and past winners. Last accessed: March 7, 2008.]

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

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