EUROPEAN PRIZES AND INITIATIVES

Through Creative Europe, the European Commission also supports a variety of prizes to increase the visibility of Europe’s culture and audiovisual sectors. These prizes reward achievement, highlight excellence and raise awareness of culture and heritage.

Welsh heritage site and farmhouse Yr Ysgwrn in north Wales received a Conservation Award at the prestigious Creative Europe-supported European Heritage/ Europa Nostra Awards 2019.

The Iron Bridge, Shropshire, UK was a 2020 Europa Nostra winner in the Conservation category, for English Heritage’s work on restoring this landmark in industrial heritage

For the annual EU Prize for Literature Awards, UK novelist and nature writer Melissa Harrison was selected as a winner for her rural-set family drama All Among the Barley.

European Prizes and initiatives include:

• European Capitals of Culture • European Heritage Days • European Heritage Label • EU Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards • EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Award • Music Moves Europe Talent Awards • EU Prize for Literature

In October 2019, the 14 winners of the EU Prize for Literature gathered in Brussels at BOZAR to claim their well-deserved awards, including the UK’s EUPL laureate Melissa Harrison (pictured, right), author of All Among the Barley. Image Courtesy of EUPL.

Of her Award in 2019 Melissa Harrison said

“In these politically unstable times I’m very proud to represent Britain in the European Union Prize for Literature with a novel that explores the dangerous allure of nativism, nostalgia and xenophobia.”