Europe’s multi-cultural landscape offers a wealth of literary awards recognizing the finest achievements in contemporary literature across multiple genres. Browse awards here.
The Jiří Orten Award is a Czech Literature Prize originally established in 1987 to honor the young deceased poet Jiří Orten. Artists should be no older than 30 at the time of completion of their work to be eligible. The prize is handed either to a work of prose or poetry in Czech of which the main part was published one year before the submission deadline. Currently, the prize is endowed with 50,000 CZK.
First announced in 2007 and named after the Czech Canadian writer and publisher Josef Škvorecký, this prize recognizes the best original prose work of the previous twelve months. The aim of the award is to promote artistic prose work as a pillar of cultural identity. The prize is endowed with the amount of 50,000 CZK.
The Franz Kafka Literature Prize (Cena Franze Kafky) has been awarded since 2001 by the Prague Franz Kafka Society (Spolecnost Franze Kafky). This international literary award is intended to honor a work by a contemporary writer that appeals to readers without regard to their origin, nationality, or culture. The award comes with a prize money of 10,000 USD and a bronze statuette resembling a monument to Kafka in a smaller form.
The most important task of the annual Magnesia Litera Book Award is to promote quality literature without limitation and regardless of genre. Writers, poets, translators, publishers, scholars and theorists are all given the same attention, which is why the award has been divided into several categories, such as prose, poetry, journalism, translation or blog of the year. In order to avoid too narrow specialization, the winners in the categories Discovery of the Year as well as Book of the Year are selected by 300 different respondents from the book industry. The prize is endowed with 200,000 CZK and was established in 2002.
