The prize is co-funded by the European Union's Culture Programme and a Consortium consisting of the European Booksellers Federation (EBF), the European Writers Congress (EWC) and the Federation of European Book Publishers.
This is the first novel of Cerniauskaite, also known for her work as a playwright, and was published by Alma Littera in 2006. The novel was a hit with readers and critics alike. . The novel "Kvepavimas I Marmura" features a drama of a family living in an isolated homestead which adopts a problem boy. The efforts put to welcome the new family member reveal a deep crisis of the relations of the family itself. In Flagey Theatre in Brussels, 12 emerging European authors received the new European Union Prize for Literature during a ceremony attended by 800 people from the European cultural scene.
President Jose Manuel Barroso and writer Henning Mankell launched the event with a dialogue about literature. They concluded that the real value of this prize will be its success to get literature across borders in Europe and beyond.
The prize is a total of 5,000 euros for each winner.
The Culture Programme supports trans-national cultural cooperation projects involving operators from a minimum of three different countries participating in the programme. It also provides specific support for the translation of literary works and is open to all cultural sectors except audiovisual, for which a separate programme exists.
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