Fiction that Matters

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Austrian author Anna Kim

You are unlikely to have missed Thursday’s announcement of the Nobel Prize for Literature, with all the usual fanfare that ensues – congratulations to Mo Yan. But the winners of the European Union Prize for Literature were also announced at Frankfurt Book Fair, and in recognition of this PEN International is happy to offer you anexclusive extract – in Lithuanian and English – from the work of one of its winners: Giedra Radvilavičiūtė. Congratulations also to Ms Radvilavičiūtė and the other eleven winners…

Radvilavičiūtė is pseudonym for Giedra Subačienė, who was born in 1960 in Panevėžys, Lithuania. After finishing secondary school, she graduated from Vilnius University with a degree in Lithuanian language and literature. She initially worked as a school teacher in her native region before becoming a journalist in Vilnius. From 1994 to 1998 she lived in Chicago, where her husband Giedrius Subačius was teaching at the university. She now lives in Vilnius and works at a government institution as a language editor.

Winners of the 2012 EU Prize for Literature in full –

 

The winners of the 2012 European Union Prize for Literature, which recognises the best new or emerging authors in Europe, were announced today at the Frankfurt Book Fair by Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth.

The winners of the European Union Prize for Literature were announced at the Frankfurt Book Fair on 9 October 2012. The award ceremony will take place in Brussels on 22 November 2012. The winners are:

Austria: Anna Kim
Croatia: Lada Žigo
Hungary: Viktor Horváth
France: Laurence Plazenet
Ireland: Kevin Barry
Italy: Emanuele Trevi
Lithuania: Giedra Radvilavičiūtė
Norway: Gunstein Bakke
Poland: Piotr Pazinski
Portugal: Afonso Cruz
Sweden: Sara Mannheimer
Slovakia: Jana Beňová