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The award includes 41 countries which are part of the Creative Europe programme \u2013 an initiative aiming&nbsp;to strengthen Europe\u2019s cultural and creative sectors. The EUPL was launched in 2009, and since then recognised 135 winning authors through 12 editions. Each year, the EUPL awards one winner per country from a third of participating countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year&#8217;s edition will award winners from 14 countries: Albania, Armenia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Iceland, Latvia, Malta, Moldova, the Netherlands, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden, Tunisia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The winners of the EUPL 2021 edition will be announced on 18 May in a digital event.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maltese authors Lara Calleja and Joe Pace have been nominated for the European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-mt"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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