# EBRD Literature Prize

The EBRD Literature Prize is a literary prize established in 2017 by the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development. As per the bank, the prize celebrates the "literary richness" of its operational regions, which spans some 40 countries across Europe, Asia and Africa. The prize is worth €20,000; it is shared by the writer and the translator. Funding for the prize is provided by the member nations of the EBRD, in cooperation with the British Council.
The inaugural winner was the Turkish writer Burhan Sönmez who won for his book Istanbul Istanbul.

## Winners and nominees

= winner
Winner and nominees :
| Year | Title | Author | Translator | Publisher | Language | Status |
| 2018 | Istanbul Istanbul | Burhan Sönmez | Ümit Hussein | Telegram Books | Turkish | Winner |
| 2018 | About My Mother | Tahar Ben Jelloun | Ros Schwartz and Lulu Norman | Saqi/Telegram | French | Longlist |
| 2018 | All the World’s a Stage | Boris Akunin | Andrew Bromfield | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | Russian | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Belladonna | Daša Drndic | Celia Hawkesworth | Maclehose/Quercus | Croatian | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Hair Everywhere | Tea Tulić | Coral Petkovich | Istros Books | Croatian | Longlist |
| 2018 | In the Name of the Father | Balla | Julia Sherwood and Peter Sherwood | Jantar Publishing | Slovak | Longlist |
| 2018 | Maryam: Keeper of Stories | Alawiya Sobh | Nirvana Tanoukhi | Seagull Books | Arabic | Shortlist |
| 2018 | The Bickford Fuse | Andrey Kurkov | Boris Dralyuk | MacLehose/Quercus | Russian | Longlist |
| 2018 | The Equestrienne | Uršuľa Kovalyk | Julia Sherwood and Peter Sherwood | Parthian Books | Slovak | Longlist |
| 2018 | The Red-Haired Woman | Orhan Pamuk | Ekin Oklap | Faber & Faber | Turkish | Shortlist |
| 2018 | The Traitor’s Niche | Ismail Kadare | John Hodgson | Penguin | Albanian | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Women Who Blow on Knots | Ece Temelkuran | Alexander Dawe | Parthian Books | Turkish | Longlist |
| 2019 | The Devils' Dance | Hamid Ismailov | Donald Rayfield, with John Farndon | Tilted Axis | Uzbek | Winner |
| 2019 | Lala | Jacek Dehnel | Antonia Lloyd-Jones | One World | Polish | Longlist |
| 2019 | Soviet Milk | Nora Ikstena | Margita Gaelitis | Peirene Press | Latvian | Shortlist |
| 2019 | My Name is Adam | Elias Khoury | Humphrey Davies | MacLehose Press | Arabic | Longlist |
| 2019 | The Clash of Images | Abdelfattah Kilito | Robyn Cresswell | Darf Publishers | French (Moroccan) | Longlist |
| 2019 | The Peace Machine | Özgür Mumcu | Mark David Wyers | Pushkin Press | Turkish | Longlist |
| 2019 | Drive your Plow | Olga Tokarczuk | Antonia Lloyd-Jones | Fitzcarraldo Editions | Polish | Shortlist |
| 2019 | The Aviator | Eugene Vodolazkin | Lisa C. Hayden | One World | Russian | Longlist |
| 2019 | The Book of Whispers | Varujan Vosganian | Alastair Ian Blyth | Yale University Press | Romanian | Longlist |
| 2019 | Shatila Stories | 9 authors | Nashwa Gowanlock | Peirene Press | Arabic | Longlist |
| 2020 | Devilspel | Grigory Kanovich | Yisrael Elliot Cohen | Noir Press | Russian | Winner |
| 2020 | Not Saying Goodbye | Boris Akunin | Andrew Bromfield | Orion Books | Russian | Longlist |
| 2020 | Sacred Darkness | Levan Berdzenishvili | Brian James Baer and Ellen Vayner | Europa Editions | Russian translation from Georgian | Longlist |
| 2020 | Mrs Mohr Goes Missing | Maryla Szymiczkowa | Antonia Lloyd-Jones | Oneworld Publications | Polish | Longlist |
| 2020 | Bellevue | Ivana Dobrakovová | Julia Sherwood and Peter Sherwood | Jantar Publishing | Slovak | Longlist |
| 2020 | ICE | Sonallah Ibrahim | Margaret Litvin | Seagull Books | Arabic | Longlist |
| 2020 | Every Fire You Tend | Sema Kaygusuz | Nicholas Glastonbury | Tilted Axis | Turkish | Longlist |
| 2020 | Under Pressure | Faruk Šehić | Mirza Purić | Istros Books | Bosnian | Longlist |
| 2020 | Pixel | Krisztina Tóth | Owen Good | Seagull Books | Hungarian | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Zuleikha | Guzel Yakhina | Lisa C. Hayden | Oneworld Publications | Russian | Shortlist |
| 2021 | The King of Warsaw | Szczepan Twardoch | Sean Gasper Bye | Amazon Crossing | Polish | Winner |
| 2021 | Love in the Days of Rebellion | Ahmet Altan | Brendan Freely and Yelda Türedi | Europa Editions | Turkish | Longlist |
| 2021 | The Pear Field | Nana Ekvtimishvili | Elizabeth Heighway | Peirene Press | Georgian | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Grey Bees | Andrey Kurkov | Boris Dralyuk | MacLehose/Quercus | Russian | Longlist |
| 2021 | Carbide | Andriy Lyubka | Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stockhouse Wheeler | Jantar Publishing | Ukrainian | Longlist |
| 2021 | Hana | Alena Mornstajnova | Julia Sherwood and Peter Sherwood | Parthian Books | Czech | Longlist |
| 2021 | No-Signal Area | Robert Perisic | Ellen Elias-Bursac | Seven Stories Press | Croatian | Longlist |
| 2021 | The Highly Unreliable Account of the History of a Madhouse | Ayfer Tunc | Feyza Howell | Istros Books | Turkish | Longlist |
| 2021 | Mr K Released | Matei Visniec | Jozefina Komporaly | Seagull Books | Romanian | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Your Ad Could Go Here | Oksana Zabuzhko | Nina Murray, Marta Horban, Marco Carynnyk, Halyna Hryn, and Askold Melnyczuk | Amazon Crossing | Ukrainian | Longlist |
| 2022 | Doctor Bianco and Other Stories | Maciek Bielawski | Scotia Gilroy | Terra Librorum | Polish | Longlist |
| 2022 | Birds of Verhovina | Adam Bodor | Peter Sherwood | Jantar Publishing | Hungarian | Longlist |
| 2022 | The Book of Katerina | Auguste Corteau | Claire Papamichail | Parthian Books | Greek | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Red Crosses | Sasha Filipenko | Brian James Baer and Ellen Vayner | Europa Editions | Russian | Longlist |
| 2022 | City of Torment | Daniela Hodrova | Veronique Firkusny and Elena Sokol | Jantar Publishing | Czech | Longlist |
| 2022 | Manaschi | Hamid Ismailov | Donald Rayfield | Tilted Axis | Uzbek | Longlist |
| 2022 | Boat Number Five | Monika Kompaníková | Janet Livingstone | Seagull Books | Slovak | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Karolina, or the Torn Curtain | Maryla Szymiczkowa | Antonia Lloyd-Jones | Oneworld Publications | Polish | Longlist |
| 2022 | Just the Plague | Ludmila Ulitskaya | Polly Gannon | Granta | Russian | Longlist |
| 2022 | The Orphanage | Serhiy Zhadan | Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler | Yale University Press | Ukrainian | Winner |
| 2023 | Mister N | Najwa Barakat | Luke Leafgren | And Other Stories | Arabic | Shortlist |
| 2023 | The Lake | Bianca Bellová | Alex Zucker | Parthian Books | Czech | Winner |
| 2023 | Mothers and Truckers | Ivana Dobrakovová | Julia and Peter Sherwood | Jantar Publishing | Slovak | Longlist |
| 2023 | Invisible Woman and Other Stories | Slavenka Drakulić | Christina Pribichevich Zorić with Jacob Agee | Fraktura | Croatian | Longlist |
| 2023 | Time Shelter | Georgi Gospodinov | Angela Rodel | | Bulgarian | Longlist |
| 2023 | According to Her | Maciej Hen | Anna Blasiak | Holland House Books | Polish | Longlist |
| 2023 | Body Kintsugi | Senka Marić | Celia Hawkesworth | Peirene | Bosnian | Longlist |
| 2023 | Nights of Plague | Orhan Pamuk | Ekin Oklap | Faber | Turkish | Longlist |
| 2023 | Mondegreen | Volodymyr Rafeienko | Mark Andryczyk | HURI Books | Ukrainian | Longlist |
| 2023 | The Books of Jacob | Olga Tokarczuk | Jennifer Croft | Fitzcarraldo Editions | Polish | Shortlist |