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	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		and Peter Sherwood	Jantar Publishing	Slovak	Longlist
2018	Maryam: Keeper of Stories	Alawiya Sobh		Seagull Books	Arabic	Shortlist
2018	The Bickford Fuse	Andrey Kurkov	Boris Dralyuk	MacLehose/Quercus	Russian	Longlist
2018	The Equestrienne	Uršuľa Kovalyk	and Peter Sherwood	Parthian Books	Slovak	Longlist
2018	The Red-Haired Woman	Orhan Pamuk		Faber & Faber	Turkish	Shortlist
2018	The Traitor’s Niche	Ismail Kadare		Penguin	Albanian	Shortlist
2018	Women Who Blow on Knots	Ece Temelkuran		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		Peirene Press	Latvian	Shortlist
2019	My Name is Adam	Elias Khoury	Humphrey Davies	MacLehose Press	Arabic	Longlist
2019	The Clash of Images	Abdelfattah Kilito		Darf Publishers	French (Moroccan)	Longlist
2019	The Peace Machine	Özgür Mumcu		Pushkin Press	Turkish	Longlist
2019	Drive your Plow	Olga Tokarczuk	Antonia Lloyd-Jones	Fitzcarraldo Editions	Polish	Shortlist
2019	The Aviator	Eugene Vodolazkin		One World	Russian	Longlist
2019	The Book of Whispers	Varujan Vosganian		Yale University Press	Romanian	Longlist
2019	Shatila Stories	9 authors		Peirene Press	Arabic	Longlist
2020	Devilspel	Grigory Kanovich		Noir Press	Russian	Winner
2020	Not Saying Goodbye	Boris Akunin	Andrew Bromfield	Orion Books	Russian	Longlist
2020	Sacred Darkness	Levan Berdzenishvili	and	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	and Peter Sherwood	Jantar Publishing	Slovak	Longlist
2020	ICE	Sonallah Ibrahim		Seagull Books	Arabic	Longlist
2020	Every Fire You Tend	Sema Kaygusuz		Tilted Axis	Turkish	Longlist
2020	Under Pressure	Faruk Šehić		Istros Books	Bosnian	Longlist
2020	Pixel	Krisztina Tóth		Seagull Books	Hungarian	Shortlist
2020	Zuleikha	Guzel Yakhina		Oneworld Publications	Russian	Shortlist
2021	The King of Warsaw	Szczepan Twardoch		Amazon Crossing	Polish	Winner
2021	Love in the Days of Rebellion	Ahmet Altan	and	Europa Editions	Turkish	Longlist
2021	The Pear Field	Nana Ekvtimishvili		Peirene Press	Georgian	Shortlist
2021	Grey Bees	Andrey Kurkov	Boris Dralyuk	MacLehose/Quercus	Russian	Longlist
2021	Carbide	Andriy Lyubka	and	Jantar Publishing	Ukrainian	Longlist
2021	Hana	Alena Mornstajnova	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		Istros Books	Turkish	Longlist
2021	Mr K Released	Matei Visniec		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

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