Imaginary depiction of Ovid with laurel wreath (from an engraving)
Location
Neptun, Romania
Presented by
Romanian Cultural Institute and Romanian Writers' Union
Reward(s)
€10,000 Ovid Prize; €5,000 Ovid Festival Prize
First awarded
2002
Website
www.uniuneascriitorilor.ro
The Ovid Prize, established in 2002, is a literary prize awarded annually to an author from any country, in recognition of a body of work. It is named in honour of the Roman poet Ovid, who died in exile in Tomis (contemporary Constanța), on the Black Sea, in Romania. Laureates are awarded 10,000 euros.
The Ovid Festival Prize, worth 5,000 euros, was also established in 2002. Past recipients include George Szirtes, Tomaž Šalamun, and Ismail Kadare. The prize underwent a change of mandate in 2007. Since 2008, it has been awarded to a prominent young talent.
The OvidPrize, established in 2002, is a literary prize awarded annually to an author from any country, in recognition of a body of work. It is named...
[ˈpuːbliʊs ɔˈwɪdiʊs ˈnaːso(ː)]; 20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid (/ˈɒvɪd/ OV-id), was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus...
is the winner of the Peabody Award for his film Road Scholar and the OvidPrize for poetry. He was Mac Curdy Distinguished Professor of English at Louisiana...
of Honour 1998 – Israel Prize for literature 2004 – Welt-Literaturpreis from the German newspaper Die Welt 2004 – OvidPrize from the city of Neptun,...
Apollo is Phylarchus, quoted by Parthenius of Nicaea. Later, the Roman poet Ovid does a retelling of this Greek legend, which appears in his work Metamorphoses...
were described with a book title of Kundera's. In 2011, he received the OvidPrize. The asteroid 7390 Kundera, discovered at the Kleť Observatory in 1983...
Metamorphoses (Transformations) is a Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid, considered his magnum opus. Comprising fifteen books and over 250 myths...
Kafka Prize – since 2001 Sense of Gender Awards – since 2001 OvidPrize – since 2002 Dayton Literary Peace Prize – since 2006 European Union Prize for Literature...
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made a Laureate of the International Botev Prize, in Bulgaria in 2006. In 2007, he was awarded the OvidPrize, Romania, in recognition of his body of work...
many literary allusions, including to the works of classic poets Homer, Ovid and Virgil. To support this claim, Thomas offered multiple examples of Dylan's...
In 1998 he was awarded the international Herder Prize in Austria. In 2003 he received the OvidPrize international award in Romania, and the Presidential...
American Center 2006 – OvidPrize, Romania 2008 – Bess Hokin Prize (USA) Poetry Foundation 2009 – Shortlisted for T S Eliot Prize for The Burning of the...
The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes awarded annually for Letters, Drama, and Music. It was first presented in 1922...
In addition to the Iliad, Miller drew inspiration from the writings of Ovid, Virgil, Sophocles, Apollodorus, Euripides, and Aeschylus, as well as accounts...
audience. As such, they were considered a more populist literary prize than the Booker Prize, which also limited winners to literature written in the English...
The most familiar form of the myth was recounted in the Metamorphoses of Ovid, and the story was the subject of the most famous work (now lost) of the...
most complete story followed by slight variations of this from Seneca and Ovid. Other ancient sources (i.e. Diodorus Siculus, Gaius Julius Hyginus, and...
brief springtime, and early flowering this side of manhood. — Ovid, trans. A. S. Kline, Ovid: The Metamorphoses, Book X Feeling spurned by Orpheus for taking...
Fair', Michael Balkwill 1932: 'Sir Walter Scott', Richard Hennings 1933: 'Ovid among the Goths', Philip Maitland Hubbard 1934: 'Fire', Edward Lowbury 1935:...
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