title: The European Union Prize for Literature: Disseminating European Values through Translation and Supranational Consecration
abstract: What is European literature? For the longest of times, the label was reserved for canonical works belonging to the literatures of the major Western European powers. In more recent decades, however, in step with the gradual process of European integration initiated after the Second World War and solidified through the enlargement of the European Union, the linguistic and geographic borders of European literature have expanded to accommodate Europe's less dominant literary traditions, including th