The 21^st Prix Marulić, organized by Croatian Member HRT, has just announced the prizewinners in its three categories. This annual festival of radio plays and documentaries was held from 20 to 26 May on the island of Hvar.

The Prix Marulić is a unique event of its kind since all entries must be based on unwritten cultural legacy or literary texts dating from no later than 1921, the year of the first radio drama.

Also unique is that the morning and afternoon listening sessions take advantage of Hvar's stunning historical settings, such as the ruins of the medieval Dominican Monastery and St. Mark's Church (pictured). In the evening, everyone is welcome to join the jury and participate in discussion of the works presented that day.

The 2017 Prix Marulić jury, chaired by Tajana Gašparović (Croatia/Czech Republic) and Alfred Koch (Austria), announced the prizewinners as follows:

Short forms

1) Grand Prix Marulić: The Kayakman, Rikke Houd, Denmark
2) Live from Elsinore, Jan Duchek, Czech Radio
3) All about Shaanxi Dialect, Ren Jie and Feng Huiling, China National Radio

Documentary

1) Grand Prix Marulić: Looping Swans, Cicely Fell and Charles Maynes, Falling Tree Productions, UK
2) Roger Casement's "Apocalypse Now" - Africa & 1916, Colin Murphy and Ronan Kelly, RTÉ, Ireland
3) Often foolish, willful and quixotic. Park hunting with Prince Pückler, Kai-Uwe Kohlschmidt, Deutschlandfunk, Germany

Drama

1) Grand Prix Marulić: Terrible Beauty, Bernard Clarke, RTÉ, Ireland
2) The Black Bible of William Blake, Ilinca Stichi, Radio Romania, Romania
3) In Darkness Let Me Dwell, Janko Hanushevsky and Eva Poepplein, Deutschlandfunk, Germany

Complete information on this year's event can be found here.