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.

Reminder, the shortlist for The Aleksandar Tišma International Literary Prize included eight renowned European writers: Cécile Wajsbrot, Slobodan Šnajder, Lászlo Vegel, Serhij Zhadan, Andrzej Stasiuk, Tatiana Ţibuleac, Aleksandar Hemon, and Semezdin Mehmedinović.

Previous winners of this award include László Darvasi (2019) and David Albahari (2022).

The award comprises a monetary prize of 10.000 euros and a diploma, duly signed by the President of the Foundation’s Board of Directors and the President of the Jury.

Cécile Wajsbrot was born in 1954 as the child of Polish-Jewish parents in Paris, where she still resides. Her grandfather was a victim of the Holocaust. She has created an extensive and esteemed body of work both in France and internationally. Most of her essays and several novels, such as Betrayal (French: La trahison 1997, German 2006), Memorial (French: Mémorial 2005, German 2008), or Total Eclipse (French: Totale éclipse 2014, German 2016), address the Holocaust and the silence of generations about traumatic events from the past—both in France and Germany. She translates works from both English and German into French.

For her novel Nevermore, translated into German, she received the Leipzig Book Award (2022) and the "Book of the Year" Award (2024). She is also the recipient of the Berlin Academy Prize for Literature and Art (2016).

She received The Aleksandar Tišma International Literary Prize for her entire literary oeuvre.

She is a member of the German Academy for Language and Literature.

She writes novels, radio dramas, and essays.