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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.

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.

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.

This year's winner of the Aleksandar Tišma International Literary Prize is David Albahari for the novel Heute ist Mittwoch (Schoffling & Co, 2022), translated into German by Mirjana and Klaus Wittmann. Five famous European writers were shortlisted for the Aleksandar Tišma International Literary Prize: David Albahari, Cécile Wajsbrot, Slobodan Šnajder, Serhiy Zhadan, and Miljenko Jergović. By a majority of votes, the jury for the Aleksandar Tišma International Literary Prize, Peter Handke, Ilma Rakusa, László Márton, Vladislava Gordić Petković, and Mathias Énard, decided on the novel  Heute ist Mittwoch by David Albahari.