• Source: Ovid Prize

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. It is named in honour of the Roman poet Ovid, who died in exile in Tomis (contemporary Constanța), 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.




History


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 și nopți de literatură) held jointly in Neptun and Mangalia in June. The Prize is also referred to as the Ovidius Prize.
Past recipients include Orhan Pamuk, Andrei Codrescu, Amos Oz, Jorge Semprún and António Lobo Antunes.
The 2011 Laureate was the Czech writer Milan Kundera. In a letter addressed to the chairman of the jury, 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. The 2012 edition was cancelled due to lack of funds.




List of Laureates






= 2011

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Milan Kundera, France
Ognjen Spahić, Montenegro




= 2010

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Jean d'Ormesson, France
Madeleine Thien, Canada




= 2009

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Péter Esterházy, Hungary
Joey Goebel, USA




= 2008

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Orhan Pamuk, Turkey
Irina Denezhkina, Russia




= 2007

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Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russia




= 2006

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Andrei Codrescu, USA/Romania
George Szirtes, Great Britain




= 2005

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Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru
Cengiz Bektaş, Turkey




= 2004

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Amos Oz, Israel
Tomaž Šalamun, Slovenia




= 2003

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António Lobo Antunes, Portugal
Ismail Kadare, Albania




= 2002

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Jorge Semprún, Spain
Alain Robbe-Grillet, France




See also



List of literary awards
List of poetry awards




References






External links


Romanian Writers' Union
Romanian Cultural Institute

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Theodore Ziolkowski
• Pithia
• Amos Oz
• Penghargaan Pulitzer untuk Puisi
• Daftar arkeolog
• Ovid Prize
• Ovid
• António Lobo Antunes
• Jorge Semprún
• Andrei Codrescu
• Amos Oz
• Milan Kundera
• Jean d'Ormesson
• List of literary awards
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