City of Graz European Novel Prize - Dedicated to Ivo Andric
Partnership of Graz with Bosnia

The city of Graz awards a new international prize for literature.

Based on the original idea of Bosnian author and Graz Writer in Residence, Dževad Karahasan, the prize, worth 15,000 EUR, will be awarded every two years.
The prize is dedicated to the Bosnian writer and Nobel laureate Ivo Andriæ (1892-1975), who had close ties to Graz. He studied and obtained his PhD at the University of Graz, and was later also engaged in diplomatic activities here. The university city of Graz, which has always been a bridge between cultural identities, played a decisive role in Andric’s literary development into a great European figure. The great variety of human destinies described in his works is not restricted to the image of a single epoch or a single generation - his writings also project Europe’s present within the framework of the past.
Today the city of Graz maintains a close partnership with Bosnia and particularly Sarajevo in the fields of culture and science - partnership which this prize is also intended to symbolise.

Idea: Dževad Karahasan, Helmut Strobl
Realisation: Cultural Office of the City of Graz

A project by the City of Graz