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The International "Aleksandar Tišma" Literary Award ceremoniously presented to French writer Cécile Wajsbrot

The third International "Aleksandar Tišma” Literary Award was ceremoniously presented to French writer Cécile Wajsbrot on June 24, 2024, at Matica Srpska in Novi Sad. The jury, composed of prestigious European writers and critics, including Chairwoman Ilma Rakusa, László Márton, Karl-Markus Gauß, Vladislava Gordić Petković, and Mathias Énard, decided that this year's award recipient is Cécile Wajsbrot, a writer, translator, and journalist from France. She received the International "Aleksandar Tišma" Literary Award for her entire literary oeuvre.

This year's winner of The Aleksandar Tišma International Literary Prize is Cécile Wajsbrot, a writer, essayist, translator, and journalist from France

The jury for The Aleksandar Tišma International Literary Prize, consisting of Ilma Rakusa (President, Switzerland), Karl-Markus Gauß (Austria), Vladislava Gordić Petković (Serbia), Mathias Énard (France), and László Marton (Hungary), has decided that this year's recipient of the award is Cécile Wajsbrot.

Eight Authors Shortlisted for the Aleksandar Tišma International Literary Prize

For this year's the Aleksandar Tišma International Literary Prize, organized biennially by the Aleksandar Tišma Foundation, 48 authors from various parts of the world have been nominated. These countries include the Congo, Chile, China, Moldova, France, Germany, Ukraine, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Croatia, the United States, Serbia, Spain, and more.

Nobel laureate Peter Handke, the honorary president of the Aleksandar Tišma Foundation

Upon the proposal of the Foundation's Board of Directors, renowned writer and Nobel laureate Peter Handke has accepted to be the honorary president of the Aleksandar Tišma Foundation. Handke has been an active member of the Foundation’s jury for the International Prize for Literature since its establishment in 2016. Given the fact he considers Tišma to be one of the greatest European writers, whom he often revisits, in a conversation with Andrej Tišma, the writer emphasized his desire to personally contribute to the new publication and reading of Aleksandar Tišma's works worldwide, as well as to assist the Foundation's work.

International Award for Literature "Aleksandar Tišma" was presented to writer David Albahari

In Novi Sad (Serbia), on June 24, 2022, the International Award for Literature "Aleksandar Tišma" was presented to writer David Albahari. The recipient of the award was decided upon by an international jury: Ilma Rakusa (president), Peter Handke, Mathias Enard, Laszlo Marton and Vladislava Gordić Petković.

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