The EBRD Literature Prize is a literary prize established in 2017 by the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development. As per the bank, the prize celebrates the "literary richness" of its operational regions, which spans some 40 countries across Europe, Asia and Africa. The prize is worth €20,000; it is shared by the writer and the translator. Funding for the prize is provided by the member nations of the EBRD, in cooperation with the British Council.[1]
The inaugural winner was the Turkish writer Burhan Sönmez who won for his book Istanbul Istanbul.[2]
= winner
| Year | Title | Author | Translator | Publisher | Language | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Istanbul Istanbul | Telegram Books | Turkish | Winner | |||
| 2018 | About My Mother | Saqi/Telegram | French | Longlist | |||
| 2018 | All the World’s a Stage | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | Russian | Shortlist | |||
| 2018 | Belladonna | Maclehose/Quercus | Croatian | Shortlist | |||
| 2018 | Hair Everywhere | Istros Books | Croatian | Longlist | |||
| 2018 | In the Name of the Father | Jantar Publishing | Slovak | Longlist | |||
| 2018 | Maryam: Keeper of Stories | Seagull Books | Arabic | Shortlist | |||
| 2018 | The Bickford Fuse | MacLehose/Quercus | Russian | Longlist | |||
| 2018 | The Equestrienne | Parthian Books | Slovak | Longlist | |||
| 2018 | The Red-Haired Woman | Faber & Faber | Turkish | Shortlist | |||
| 2018 | The Traitor’s Niche | Penguin | Albanian | Shortlist | |||
| 2018 | Women Who Blow on Knots | Parthian Books | Turkish | Longlist | |||
| 2019 | The Devils' Dance | Tilted Axis | Uzbek | Winner | |||
| 2019 | Lala | One World | Polish | Longlist | |||
| 2019 | Soviet Milk | Peirene Press | Latvian | Shortlist | |||
| 2019 | My Name is Adam | MacLehose Press | Arabic | Longlist | |||
| 2019 | The Clash of Images | Darf Publishers | French (Moroccan) | Longlist | |||
| 2019 | The Peace Machine | Pushkin Press | Turkish | Longlist | |||
| 2019 | Drive your Plow | Fitzcarraldo Editions | Polish | Shortlist | |||
| 2019 | The Aviator | One World | Russian | Longlist | |||
| 2019 | The Book of Whispers | Yale University Press | Romanian | Longlist | |||
| 2019 | Shatila Stories | 9 authors | Peirene Press | Arabic | Longlist | ||
| 2020 | Devilspel | Noir Press | Russian | Winner | |||
| 2020 | Not Saying Goodbye | Orion Books | Russian | Longlist | |||
| 2020 | Sacred Darkness | Europa Editions | Russian translation from Georgian | Longlist | |||
| 2020 | Mrs Mohr Goes Missing | Oneworld Publications | Polish | Longlist | |||
| 2020 | Bellevue | Jantar Publishing | Slovak | Longlist | |||
| 2020 | ICE | Seagull Books | Arabic | Longlist | |||
| 2020 | Every Fire You Tend | Tilted Axis | Turkish | Longlist | |||
| 2020 | Under Pressure | Istros Books | Bosnian | Longlist | |||
| 2020 | Pixel | Seagull Books | Hungarian | Shortlist | |||
| 2020 | Zuleikha | Oneworld Publications | Russian | Shortlist | |||
| 2021 | The King of Warsaw | Amazon Crossing | Polish | Winner | |||
| 2021 | Love in the Days of Rebellion | Europa Editions | Turkish | Longlist | |||
| 2021 | The Pear Field | Peirene Press | Georgian | Shortlist | |||
| 2021 | Grey Bees | MacLehose/Quercus | Russian | Longlist | |||
| 2021 | Carbide | Jantar Publishing | Ukrainian | Longlist | |||
| 2021 | Hana | Parthian Books | Czech | Longlist | |||
| 2021 | No-Signal Area | Seven Stories Press | Croatian | Longlist | |||
| 2021 | The Highly Unreliable Account of the History of a Madhouse | Istros Books | Turkish | Longlist | |||
| 2021 | Mr K Released | Seagull Books | Romanian | Shortlist | |||
| 2021 | Your Ad Could Go Here | Nina Murray, Marta Horban, Marco Carynnyk, Halyna Hryn, and Askold Melnyczuk | Amazon Crossing | Ukrainian | Longlist | ||
| 2022 | Doctor Bianco and Other Stories | Scotia Gilroy | Terra Librorum | Polish | Longlist | ||
| 2022 | Birds of Verhovina | Peter Sherwood | Jantar Publishing | Hungarian | Longlist | ||
| 2022 | The Book of Katerina | Claire Papamichail | Parthian Books | Greek | Shortlist | ||
| 2022 | Red Crosses | Brian James Baer and Ellen Vayner | Europa Editions | Russian | Longlist | ||
| 2022 | City of Torment | Veronique Firkusny and Elena Sokol | Jantar Publishing | Czech | Longlist | ||
| 2022 | Manaschi | Tilted Axis | Uzbek | Longlist | |||
| 2022 | Boat Number Five | Monika Kompaníková | Janet Livingstone | Seagull Books | Slovak | Shortlist | |
| 2022 | Karolina, or the Torn Curtain | Oneworld Publications | Polish | Longlist | |||
| 2022 | Just the Plague | Polly Gannon | Granta | Russian | Longlist | ||
| 2022 | The Orphanage | Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler | Yale University Press | Ukrainian | Winner | ||
| 2023 | Mister N | Luke Leafgren | And Other Stories | Arabic | Shortlist | ||
| 2023 | The Lake | Alex Zucker | Parthian Books | Czech | Winner | ||