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Novi Sad, May 2026. We are pleased to inform you that the following writers have been shortlisted for The Aleksandar Tišma International Literary Prize: Georgi Gospodinov (Bulgaria), Miljenko Jergović (Croatia), Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Colombia), Slobodan Šnajder (Croatia), Lea Ypi (Albania).

Aleksandar Tišma Foundation Novi Sad, Serbia, is announcing a Call for Submissions for The Aleksandar Tišma International Literary Prize which will be awarded this year for the book written or translated and published in the years 2024 and 2025 in any of these three languages: French, English or German, or for the writer’s entire body of work. The title submitted can be in any literary genre and by authors from any country in the world. The prize comprises a certificate and a cash award (10000 euros). Guidelines for the submission can be found on the Aleksandar Tišma Foundation web page http://www.tisma-foundation.com/index.php/en/prize/prize-rules-and-regulations

The third International "Aleksandar Tišma” Literary Award was ceremoniously presented to French writer Cécile Wajsbrot on June 24, 2024, at Matica Srpska in Novi Sad. The jury, composed of prestigious European writers and critics, including Chairwoman Ilma Rakusa, László Márton, Karl-Markus Gauß, Vladislava Gordić Petković, and Mathias Énard, decided that this year's award recipient is Cécile Wajsbrot, a writer, translator, and journalist from France. She received the International "Aleksandar Tišma" Literary Award for her entire literary oeuvre.

The jury for The Aleksandar Tišma International Literary Prize, consisting of Ilma Rakusa (President, Switzerland), Karl-Markus Gauß (Austria), Vladislava Gordić Petković (Serbia), Mathias Énard (France), and László Marton (Hungary), has decided that this year's recipient of the award is Cécile Wajsbrot.