EU Prize for Literature

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Marta Dzido was born in 1981; writer, documentary filmmaker and film editor. Graduated at the Polish Film School in Łódź. Author of three novels: "A Mark Left by Mom" (2003), "The Clam"; (2005), hypertext "Matrioszka"; (2013) and a non-fiction book "Women of Solidarity" (2016). Director of photography of the documentary "Underground Women’s State" (2009) and co-director of ;"Downtown"; (2010), a documentary that has won the Hollywood Eagle Documentary Award in 2011. Screenwriter, co-director and editor of “Solidarity according to Women” (2014, Krzysztof Kieslowski Beyond Borders Award, special award of Polish Film Institute)  and docudrama "Women Power" (2018). 

http://www.euprizeliterature.eu/authors/marta-dzido 

Giovanni Dozzini was born in Perugia (1978) where he still lives today. He works as both a journalist and an interpreter. His articles have been published in several internationally acclaimed newspapers including “Europa”, “Huffington Post Italia”, “Pagina99”, “Onda Rock” and “Nazione Indiana”. Since 2014, Giovanni has been a member of the organizing committee for Encuentro, a festival that aims to promote Spanish literature in Umbria. Music is a passion of his, often defining himself as a "failed rock-star".

http://www.euprizeliterature.eu/authors/giovanni-dozzini 

Piia Leino was born in 1977. She lives in Helsinki with her family, and has worked as a journalist at the Finnish News Agency, STT, for almost two decades. She got her Master’s degree in social studies, majoring in journalism, from University of Tampere in 2004. She also studied creative writing for two years at the renowned Kriittinen korkeakoulu (Critical Academy) in Helsinki in 2015-2017.

Her second novel is literal dystopian novel TAIVAS (2018, “Heaven”). Her first novel was RUMA KASSA (2016, “The Ugly Cashier”, publ. Johnny Kniga) was about reality tv and the pressures women face. Her third novel will be published in 2020.

As an author she writes to understand how society works, and where it is headed. Her interests include popular culture, social media and politics.

 http://www.euprizeliterature.eu/authors/piia-leino  

Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in Belfast. Her first novel, Malcolm Orange Disappears was published by Liberties Press in 2014 to critical acclaim, followed by a short story collection, Children’s Children in 2016, and a flash fiction anthology, Postcard Stories (2017): every day in 2015 Jan Carson wrote a short story on the back of a postcard and mailed it to a friend. Each of these tiny stories was inspired by an event, an overheard conversation, a piece of art or just a fleeting glance of something worth thinking about further. The success of this collection lead to Jan Carson becoming the Irish Writers Centre’s first Roaming Writer-In-Residence, 2018, working with aspirant authors who also created ‘postcard stories’.

Published in journals such as Storm Cellar, Banshee, Harper’s Bazaar and The Honest Ulsterman, Jan Carson received an Arts Council NI Artist’s Career Enhancement Bursary in 2014. She was longlisted for the Sean O’Faolain short story prize in 2015 and won the Harper’s Bazaar short story competition in 2016. In 2014/15, she collaborated with local songwriter Hannah McPhillimy to produce an EP of songs based on her first novel. Hannah and Jan performed this material at music and literary festivals throughout Europe.

More about Jan:  http://www.euprizeliterature.eu/authors/jan-carson  

Poet and author Ófeigur Sigurðsson was born in Reykjavík on November 2, 1975. He has published six books of poetry and two novels. Ófeigur has tried his hand at a number of things: working as a uniformed night-watchman at a hotel, pre-packing ham and bacon at a factory farm, exercising his brawn as a dock worker, and exercising his brains as a student at the Philosophy Department of the University of Iceland, from where he received his BA degree in 2007, with a thesis on the taboo and transgression in the works of Georges Bataille. Ófeigur is at the forefront of a poetic movement of dynamic young creative people, who have recently had a hand in reshaping the form of Icelandic poetry. He has translated literature and written for radio on writers including Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Michel Houellebecq. 

To read more about the author, visit his profile on the EUPL website:  http://www.euprizeliterature.eu/author/2011/ofeigur-sigurdsson