The EBRD Literature Prize is awarded to the year’s best work of literary fiction translated into English, originally written in any language of the regions in which the Bank currently invests and published for the first time by a European (including UK) or North American publisher in the period in question.
The Prize champions the literary richness of our diverse regions of operation across three continents. It also celebrates the role of translators as “bridges” between cultures. It helps disseminate a wide range of different voices to the English-reading public and a global audience.
It has already introduced a broad range of literature from countries such as Albania, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Georgia, Greece, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Morocco, Poland, the Slovak Republic, Türkiye, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.