Edition 2015


Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kiš, Cornell University Press, 2013
The jury of the 2015 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature has awarded the British historian Mark Thompson for Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kiš. This book looks at the life and writing of Danilo Kiš, a Yugoslav novelist, essayist and poet. It restores Kiš to his essential position as one of the great European writers of the 20th century.
The winner of the Jan Michalski Prize 2015, Mark Thompson receives an award of CHF 50,000.00 and an etching by the artist Safet Zec that has been chosen for him: Casa di Pietra , Maison de pierre et arbres, 2007.
photo © Tanja Draškić-Savić

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