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.
The esteemed jury, comprising Ilma Rakuza (chair), Karl-Markus Gauß, Vladislava Gordić Petković, Mathias Énard, and László Márton, faced a challenging decision this year. All the nominated authors are celebrated with numerous national and international awards and have had their works translated into major world languages.
Upon completion of the jury's deliberations, it was determined that four authors had achieved an equal standing for fifth place. Consequently, to accommodate this circumstance, the shortlist has been expanded from five to eight writers. The narrowed selection for the overall literary oeuvre comprises: Cécile Wajsbrot, Slobodan Šnajder, László Végel, Serhij Zhadan, Andrzej Stasiuk, Tatiana Ţibuleac, Alexandar Hemon, and Semezdin Mehmedinović.
The award will be presented to the laureate on June 24th at the ceremony in the Matica srpska in Novi Sad, in the year of the great jubilee, marking 100 years since the birth of Aleksandar Tišma, celebrated both in Serbian and world literature.
The award consists of a monetary prize (€10,000) and a diploma signed by the President of the Foundation's Board and the President of the Jury. Previous recipients of the Aleksandar Tišma International Literary Prize include László Darvasi (2019) and David Albahari (2022).
The Aleksandar Tišma Foundation was established in August 2016. The foundation's mission is to promote, popularize, and study the works and persona of the writer and academic Aleksandar Tišma. One of the foundation's primary activities is the presentation of the Aleksandar Tišma International Literary Prize. The award is granted biennially to the finest global writer for a literary work, whether a single piece or a collection, written and published in any world language, and subsequently translated and published in one of the European languages - German, English, or French.
