Gabriela Babnik is a writer, literary critic and translator. Her first novel Cotton Skin was awarded the Best DebutNovel prize in 2007, and her second novel In the Tall Grass (2009) was shortlisted for the Kresnik Award. In 2011 she published her third novel Dry Season. She lives in between Ljubljana and Ougadougou in Burkina Faso. Photo: Tina Štrancar Foto:
Gabriela Babnik is a writer, literary critic and translator. Her first novel Cotton Skin was awarded the Best DebutNovel prize in 2007, and her second novel In the Tall Grass (2009) was shortlisted for the Kresnik Award. In 2011 she published her third novel Dry Season. She lives in between Ljubljana and Ougadougou in Burkina Faso. Photo: Tina Štrancar Foto:

This year's winners were announced yesterday at the opening of the Göteborg Book Fair in Sweden by Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth. Each winner receives € 5.000, and the possibility of priority application for EU funding for translation of their books into other European languages.

Babnik has already published three novels
Gabriela Babnik is a writer, a literary critic and a translator. Her first novel Cotton Skin (Koža iz bombaža) was awarded the Best Debut Novel prize in 2007, and her second novel In the Tall Grass (V visoki travi, 2009) was shortlisted for the Kresnik Award. In 2011 she published her third novel Dry Season (Sušna doba) at Študentska založba Publishing House. She lives in between Ljubljana and Ougadougou in Burkina Faso.
Babnik works also as a literary critic, and this year she was awarded the Stritar Prize for 2013 for young critics.

12 winners
Besides Babnik, this year's winners of the European Prize for Literature were: Isabell Wéry (Belgim), Faruk Šehić (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Emilios Solomou (Cyprus), Kristian Bang Fos (Danmark),Meelis Friedenthal (Estonia), Lidija Dimkovska (Macedonia), Katri Lipson (Finland), Marica Bodrožić, (Germany),Tullio Forgiarini (Luxemburg), Ioana Parvulescu (Romania) and Cristian Crusat (Spain).