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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