Bulgarian Writer Milen Ruskov Wins EU Prize for Literature

Society » CULTURE | October 8, 2014, Wednesday // 12:09
Bulgaria: Bulgarian Writer Milen Ruskov Wins EU Prize for Literature Bulgarian writer Milen Ruskov, photo by BGNES

Bulgarian writer Milen Ruskov is one of the 13 winners of the 2014 European Union Prize for Literature.

Ruskov won the award with his novel Summit (Възвишение), published by publishing house Janet 45, 2011, according to the press office of the European Commission.

Milen Ruskov (b.1966) is a Bulgarian writer and translator living in Sofia. He graduated in Bulgarian philology from Sofia University in 1995. He has written three novels: Summit (2011) received the Golden Century Award from the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture, the Hristo G. Danov National Award for fiction, and the Elias Canetti Award for fiction. Thrown into Nature (2008) was awarded the Bulgarian Novel of the Year Prize. And Little Encyclopaedia of Mysteries (2004) was awarded the Bulgarian Prize for Debut Fiction.

Summit is set in Turkish-ruled Bulgaria in 1872, the feverish period known as the Bulgarian Revival. The pretentious pomp of revolutionary ideals is filtered through the consciousness of the practical Bacho Gicho and his credulous companion Asen, in a rich, crude Renaissance language which demands to be read out loud. Ruskov’s daring blows away all the patriotic clich?s, without underestimating the desperate heroism of the times.

In 2014 the laureates of the European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL)come from Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Iceland, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Malta, Montenegro, Serbia, the Netherlands, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

The European Union Prize for Literature, established in 2009, is funded and founded by the Culture Program of the European Union, and is coordinated by a Consortium, selected by a Commission. The Consortium is composed of the European Booksellers Federation, the European Writers' Council and the Federation of European Publishers.The Consortium sets up the national juries and organizes the awards.

Each year 11 or 12 countries are selected to be part of the award, national juries are selected for each country, and each countries jury then selects a winner.Countries eligible for inclusion include:the 28 Member States of the European Union (as of 2013), the 3 European Economic Area countries: Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein, the candidate countries for accession to the EU: Turkey, Montenegro, the Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina, a potential candidate country for accession to the EU.

Each winner receives EUR 5000 and their books are given support for translation funding, as well as promotion.

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