Maya Jaggi
Maya Jaggi is chair of the independent jury of the EBRD Literature Prize 2024-26. An award-winning writer, critic, cultural journalist and artistic director, she is a contributing art critic for the Financial Times and her cultural writing appears widely, including in the Guardian, where she was a profile writer and a lead fiction critic for more than a decade. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2023 and has an honorary doctorate from the Open University for ‘extending the map of international writing.’
Interviews with Maya Jaggi
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The End
by Attila Bartis & Judith Sollosy (translator) -
2
Sons, Daughters
by Ivana Bodrožić and Ellen Elias-Bursac (translator) -
3
The Lake
by Bianca Bellová and Alex Zucker (translator) -
4
The Orphanage: A Novel
by Serhiy Zhadan -
5
The King of Warsaw
by Szczepan Twardoch and Sean Gasper Bye (translator)
The Best Central and East European Novels, recommended by Maya Jaggi
The Best Central and East European Novels, recommended by Maya Jaggi
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) was set up after the fall of the Soviet Union to support countries in transition. The EBRD Literature Prize has been running since 2018 and can be won by any novel, translated into English, written by a living author from a country where the Bank invests. Literary critic Maya Jaggi, chair of the prize’s independent judging panel, talks us through the novels that won between 2021 and 2025, a wonderful introduction to some excellent contemporary novels from Central and Eastern Europe.
