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Ovid Prize

Field	Value
name	Ovid Prize
image	Latin Poet Ovid.jpg
caption	Imaginary depiction of Ovid with laurel wreath (from an engraving)
presenter	Romanian Cultural Institute and Romanian Writers' Union
location	Neptun, Romania
reward	€10,000 Ovid Prize; €5,000 Ovid Festival Prize
year	2002
website	www.uniuneascriitorilor.ro

The Ovid Prize was a literary prize awarded annually between 2002 and 2011 by the Romanian Cultural Institute and the Romanian Writers' Union to an author from any country, in recognition of a body of work. It was named in honour of the Roman poet Ovid, who died in exile in the former Greek Black Sea colony of Tomis (today's Constanța in Romania). Laureates were awarded 10,000 euros.

The Ovid Festival Prize, worth 5,000 euros, was established in 2002. Recipients include George Szirtes, Tomaž Šalamun, and Ismail Kadare. The prize underwent a change of mandate in 2007. Starting from 2008, it was awarded to a prominent young talent. In 2012 the prize was suspended due to lack of money.

History

Both Prizes are the joint initiative of the Writers' Union of Romania and the Romanian Cultural Institute (). 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 in June. The Prize is also referred to as the Ovidius Prize.

Past recipients include Orhan Pamuk, Andrei Codrescu, Amos Oz, Jorge Semprún and António Lobo Antunes.

The 2011 Laureate was the Czech writer Milan Kundera. In a letter addressed to the chairman of the jury, Kundera, who could not attend the ceremony, accepted the award. Kundera donated the prize to Humanitas Publishing House, which has published most of his works in a Romanian translation, with the mention that the money should go to assisting Romanian literature.

The 2012 edition was cancelled due to lack of funds.

List of laureates

2011

Milan Kundera, France
Ognjen Spahić, Montenegro

2010

Jean d'Ormesson, France
Madeleine Thien, Canada

2009

Péter Esterházy, Hungary
Joey Goebel, USA

2008

Orhan Pamuk, Turkey
Irina Denezhkina, Russia

2007

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russia

2006

Andrei Codrescu, USA/Romania
George Szirtes, Great Britain

2005

Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru
Cengiz Bektaş, Turkey

2004

Amos Oz, Israel
Tomaž Šalamun, Slovenia

2003

António Lobo Antunes, Portugal
Ismail Kadare, Albania

2002

Jorge Semprún, Spain
Alain Robbe-Grillet, France

References

"Orhan Pamuk Official Web Site".
"Andrei Codrescu: Going Home Again".
"Amos Oz receives Romanian Ovidius Prize".
"Ovid Literary Prize Awarded to Spanish Author Jorge Semprun".
(14 June 2011). "Milan Kundera and Ognjen Spahic awarded at "Days and Nights of Literature" Festival". Nine O' Clock - first exclusively daily publication to appear in English language in Romania.
(June 8, 2012). "Un semnal trist pentru lumea scriitoricească".
(13 June 2011). "Milan Kundera – laureatul din 2011 al Marelui Premiu Ovidius".
"Jean d'Ormesson reçoit le prix Ovide".
"Péter Esterházy şi Joey Goebel – premiaţi la "Zile şi nopţi de literatură"".
"Romania Culturala".
"Among the participants, Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, who received the festival's Ovidius Prize".

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