The Aristeion Prize was a European literary annual prize. It was given to authors for significant contributions to contemporary European literature, and to translators for exceptional translations of contemporary European literary works.

The prize was established by the European Council in May 1989, as a way to promote of books and reading. Each year a jury composed of members selected by European Union countries decided on the winners. Works eligible for prizes had to be published in the three years preceding the date for the submission of entries.

It was awarded in a different Capital of Culture each year. It was first awarded in Glasgow in 1990 and was awarded every year until 1999 in Weimar. It was then discontinued and replaced by the EU's Culture 2000 programme, itself succeeded by the European Union Prize for Literature.

Winners

European Literary Prize

Year City Literary Winner Work
1990GlasgowJean Echenoz (France)Lac
1991DublinMario Luzi (Italy)Frasi e incisi di un canto salutare
1992MadridManuel Vázquez Montalbán (Spain)Galíndez
1993AntwerpCees Nooteboom (Netherlands)Het volgende verhaal
1994LisbonJuan Marsé (Spain)El embrujo de Shanghai
1995LuxembourgHerta Müller (Germany)Herztier
1996CopenhagenSalman Rushdie (United Kingdom)
Christoph Ransmayr (Austria)
The Moor's Last Sigh
Morbus Kitahara
1997ThessalonikiAntonio Tabucchi (Italy)Sostiene Pereira
1998StockholmHugo Claus (Belgium)De Geruchten
1999WeimarJosé Hierro (Spain)Cuaderno de Nueva York

European Translation Prize

Year City Translation Winner Work
1990GlasgowMichael Hamburger (United Kingdom)Paul Celan: Poems of Paul Celan
1991DublinFrans van Woerden (Netherlands)Louis-Ferdinand Céline: De Brug van Londen - Guignol's Band II
1992MadridSokrates Kapsaskis (Greece)James Joyce: Ulysses
1993AntwerpFrançoise Wuilmart (Belgium)Ernst Bloch: Das Prinzip Hoffnung
1994LisbonGiovanni Raboni (Italy)Marcel Proust: À la recherche du temps perdu
1995LuxembourgDieter Hornig (Austria)Henri Michaux: Un barbare en Asie
1996CopenhagenThorkild Bjørnvig (Denmark)Rainer Maria Rilke: Udsat på hjertets bjerge (Selected Poems)
1997ThessalonikiHans-Christian Oeser (Germany / Ireland*)Patrick McCabe: The Butcher Boy
1998StockholmMiguel Sáenz (Spain)Günter Grass: Ein weites feld
1999WeimarClaus Bech (Denmark)Flann O'Brien: The Third Policeman

* Oeser was a German translator nominated by Ireland.

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