Ovid Prize
| Ovid Prize | |
|---|---|
| Location | Neptun, Romania |
| Presented by | Romanian Cultural Institute and Romanian Writers' Union |
| First awarded | 2002 |
| Website | http://www.uniuneascriitorilor.ro/externe.php |
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. The prize is worth 10,000 euros. Recent winners include Orhan Pamuk, Andrei Codrescu, Amoz Oz[1] and António Lobo Antunes. It is named in honour of the Roman poet Ovid, who died in exile in Tomis, on the Black Sea, (contemporary Constantza), Romania.
A second prize, the Ovid Festival Prize, was established in 2008, and is awarded to a prominent young author. It is worth 5,000 euros.
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 held jointly in Neptun and Mangalia. The Prize is sometimes referred to as the Ovidius Prize.
List of Laureates
2010
- Jean d'Ormesson, France
- Madeleine Thien, Canada
2009
- Péter Esterházy, Hungary
- Joey Goebel, USA
2008
- Orhan Pamuk, Turkey
- Irina Denezhkina, Russia
2006
- Andrei Codrescu, Israel
2005
- Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru
2004
- Amos Oz, Israel
2003
- António Lobo Antunes, Portugal
2002
- Jorge Semprun, Spain