2014 EU Prize For Literature

 

Heavy metal Brussels: The 2014 European Union Prize for Literature award ceremony

21/11/2014 – 11:37

2014 EU PRIZE FOR LITERATURE

SPECIAL REPORT: ‘Anal Cunt’ isn’t an everyday sort of band name. Even in underground metal circles, it still inspires a pause, despite the fact that the defunct American grindcore group got its start in 1988. That didn’t stop its display, on a large video screen, at the 2014 European Union Prize for Literature award ceremony, from being a big surprise

 

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Smilevski: Adolfina is a metaphor for the people that are forgotten

14/11/2014 – 17:32

2014 EU PRIZE FOR LITERATURE

SPECIAL REPORT: "Historiography is obsessed with the rulers, men of power and influential people, while the memories about ordinary people die with those that have known them," says Goce Smilevski, about his decision to write a novel about Sigmund Freud’s sister, Adolfina.

Books that bind Europe together: This year’s EU Literature Prize

10/10/2014 – 18:20

2014 EU PRIZE FOR LITERATURE

SPECIAL REPORT: Can a majority Muslim state, on Europe’s southernmost periphery, be considered not just European, but even worthy of an EU prize for literature?

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