EBRD Literature Prize

The EBRD Literature Prize is a literary prize established in 2017 by the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development. As per the bank, the prize celebrates the "literary richness" of its operational regions, which spans some 40 countries across Europe, Asia and Africa. The prize is worth €20,000; it is shared by the writer and the translator. Funding for the prize is provided by the member nations of the EBRD, in cooperation with the British Council.[1]

The inaugural winner was the Turkish writer Burhan Sönmez who won for his book Istanbul Istanbul.[2]

Winners and nominees

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Winner and nominees
Year	Title	Author	Translator	Publisher	Language	Status
2018	Istanbul Istanbul	Burhan Sönmez	Ümit Hussein	Telegram Books	Turkish	Winner
2018	About My Mother	Tahar Ben Jelloun	Ros Schwartz and Lulu Norman	Saqi/Telegram	French	Longlist
2018	All the World’s a Stage	Boris Akunin	Andrew Bromfield	Weidenfeld & Nicolson	Russian	Shortlist
2018	Belladonna	Daša Drndic	Celia Hawkesworth	Maclehose/Quercus	Croatian	Shortlist
2018	Hair Everywhere	Tea Tulić	Coral Petkovich	Istros Books	Croatian	Longlist
2018	In the Name of the Father	Balla	Julia Sherwood and Peter Sherwood	Jantar Publishing	Slovak	Longlist
2018	Maryam: Keeper of Stories	Alawiya Sobh	Nirvana Tanoukhi	Seagull Books	Arabic	Shortlist
2018	The Bickford Fuse	Andrey Kurkov	Boris Dralyuk	MacLehose/Quercus	Russian	Longlist
2018	The Equestrienne	Uršuľa Kovalyk	Julia Sherwood and Peter Sherwood	Parthian Books	Slovak	Longlist
2018	The Red-Haired Woman	Orhan Pamuk	Ekin Oklap	Faber & Faber	Turkish	Shortlist
2018	The Traitor’s Niche	Ismail Kadare	John Hodgson	Penguin	Albanian	Shortlist
2018	Women Who Blow on Knots	Ece Temelkuran	Alexander Dawe	Parthian Books	Turkish	Longlist
2019	The Devils' Dance	Hamid Ismailov	Donald Rayfield, with John Farndon	Tilted Axis	Uzbek	Winner
2019	Lala	Jacek Dehnel	Antonia Lloyd-Jones	One World	Polish	Longlist
2019	Soviet Milk	Nora Ikstena	Margita Gaelitis	Peirene Press	Latvian	Shortlist
2019	My Name is Adam	Elias Khoury	Humphrey Davies	MacLehose Press	Arabic	Longlist
2019	The Clash of Images	Abdelfattah Kilito	Robyn Cresswell	Darf Publishers	French (Moroccan)	Longlist
2019	The Peace Machine	Özgür Mumcu	Mark David Wyers	Pushkin Press	Turkish	Longlist
2019	Drive your Plow	Olga Tokarczuk	Antonia Lloyd-Jones	Fitzcarraldo Editions	Polish	Shortlist
2019	The Aviator	Eugene Vodolazkin	Lisa C. Hayden	One World	Russian	Longlist
2019	The Book of Whispers	Varujan Vosganian	Alastair Ian Blyth	Yale University Press	Romanian	Longlist
2019	Shatila Stories	9 authors	Nashwa Gowanlock	Peirene Press	Arabic	Longlist
2020	Devilspel	Grigory Kanovich	Yisrael Elliot Cohen	Noir Press	Russian	Winner
2020	Not Saying Goodbye	Boris Akunin	Andrew Bromfield	Orion Books	Russian	Longlist
2020	Sacred Darkness	Levan Berdzenishvili	Brian James Baer and Ellen Vayner	Europa Editions	Russian translation from Georgian	Longlist
2020	Mrs Mohr Goes Missing	Maryla Szymiczkowa	Antonia Lloyd-Jones	Oneworld Publications	Polish	Longlist
2020	Bellevue	Ivana Dobrakovová	Julia Sherwood and Peter Sherwood	Jantar Publishing	Slovak	Longlist
2020	ICE	Sonallah Ibrahim	Margaret Litvin	Seagull Books	Arabic	Longlist
2020	Every Fire You Tend	Sema Kaygusuz	Nicholas Glastonbury	Tilted Axis	Turkish	Longlist
2020	Under Pressure	Faruk Šehić	Mirza Purić	Istros Books	Bosnian	Longlist
2020	Pixel	Krisztina Tóth	Owen Good	Seagull Books	Hungarian	Shortlist
2020	Zuleikha	Guzel Yakhina	Lisa C. Hayden	Oneworld Publications	Russian	Shortlist
2021	The King of Warsaw	Szczepan Twardoch	Sean Gasper Bye	Amazon Crossing	Polish	Winner
2021	Love in the Days of Rebellion	Ahmet Altan	Brendan Freely and Yelda Türedi	Europa Editions	Turkish	Longlist
2021	The Pear Field	Nana Ekvtimishvili	Elizabeth Heighway	Peirene Press	Georgian	Shortlist
2021	Grey Bees	Andrey Kurkov	Boris Dralyuk	MacLehose/Quercus	Russian	Longlist
2021	Carbide	Andriy Lyubka	Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stockhouse Wheeler	Jantar Publishing	Ukrainian	Longlist
2021	Hana	Alena Mornstajnova	Julia Sherwood and Peter Sherwood	Parthian Books	Czech	Longlist
2021	No-Signal Area	Robert Perisic	Ellen Elias-Bursac	Seven Stories Press	Croatian	Longlist
2021	The Highly Unreliable Account of the History of a Madhouse	Ayfer Tunc	Feyza Howell	Istros Books	Turkish	Longlist
2021	Mr K Released	Matei Visniec	Jozefina Komporaly	Seagull Books	Romanian	Shortlist
2021	Your Ad Could Go Here	Oksana Zabuzhko	Nina Murray, Marta Horban, Marco Carynnyk, Halyna Hryn, and Askold Melnyczuk	Amazon Crossing	Ukrainian	Longlist
2022	Doctor Bianco and Other Stories	Maciek Bielawski	Scotia Gilroy	Terra Librorum	Polish	Longlist
2022	Birds of Verhovina	Adam Bodor	Peter Sherwood	Jantar Publishing	Hungarian	Longlist
2022	The Book of Katerina	Auguste Corteau	Claire Papamichail	Parthian Books	Greek	Shortlist
2022	Red Crosses	Sasha Filipenko	Brian James Baer and Ellen Vayner	Europa Editions	Russian	Longlist
2022	City of Torment	Daniela Hodrova	Veronique Firkusny and Elena Sokol	Jantar Publishing	Czech	Longlist
2022	Manaschi	Hamid Ismailov	Donald Rayfield	Tilted Axis	Uzbek	Longlist
2022	Boat Number Five	Monika Kompaníková	Janet Livingstone	Seagull Books	Slovak	Shortlist
2022	Karolina, or the Torn Curtain	Maryla Szymiczkowa	Antonia Lloyd-Jones	Oneworld Publications	Polish	Longlist
2022	Just the Plague	Ludmila Ulitskaya	Polly Gannon	Granta	Russian	Longlist
2022	The Orphanage	Serhiy Zhadan	Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler	Yale University Press	Ukrainian	Winner

References

"EBRD Literature Prize overview". ebrd.com. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
"Love song to Istanbul scoops €20k EBRD prize". The Bookseller. Retrieved 2021-03-17.

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[ebrd-1] "EBRD Literature Prize overview". ebrd.com. Retrieved 2021-03-17.

[thebookseller-2] "Love song to Istanbul scoops €20k EBRD prize". The Bookseller. Retrieved 2021-03-17.