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French literary award given each year in November
The Prix Médicis is a French literary award given each year in November. It was founded in 1958 by
Gala Barbisan [
fr ] and
Jean-Pierre Giradoux [
fr ] .
[1] It is awarded to an author whose "fame does not yet match his talent".[
citation needed ]
The award goes to a work of fiction in the French language. In 1970 the Prix Médicis étranger was added to recognize a book published in translation. The Prix Médicis essai has been awarded since 1985 for non-fiction works.
Laureates Prix Médicis
Laureates Prix Médicis étranger
1970 – Saut de la mort –
Luigi Malerba , Italy
1971 – (no award)
1972 – Cobra –
Severo Sarduy , Cuba
1973 –
Life Is Elsewhere –
Milan Kundera , Czechoslovakia
1974 –
Libro de Manuel –
Julio Cortázar , Argentina
1975 –
Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954, by Jeffrey Cartwright –
Steven Millhauser , United States
1976 –
The Golden Notebook ,
Doris Lessing , United Kingdom
1977 – Le Traité des saisons –
Hector Bianciotti , Argentina
1978 – L'Avenir radieux –
Aleksandr Zinovyev , Soviet Union
1979 – La harpe et l'ombre –
Alejo Carpentier , Cuba
1980 –
A Dry White Season –
André Brink , South Africa
1981 – Le Jour de la comtesse –
David Shahar , Israel
1982 –
The Name of the Rose –
Umberto Eco , Italy
1983 – La route bleue –
Kenneth White , United Kingdom
1984 – Aracoeli –
Elsa Morante ,
Italy
1985 –
God Knows –
Joseph Heller , United States
1986 – Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade –
John Hawkes , United States
1987 –
Indian Nocturne (French title: Nocturne indien ) –
Antonio Tabucchi , Italy
1988 – Les Maîtres anciens –
Thomas Bernhard , Austria
1989 – La Neige de l'amiral –
Álvaro Mutis , Colombia
1990 –
The Circle of Reason (French Title: Les feux du Bengale) –
Amitav Ghosh , India
1991 – none
1992 –
Wartime Lies (French title: Une education polonaise ) –
Louis Begley , United States
1993 – Leviathan –
Paul Auster , United States
1994 –
Frère Sommeil –
Robert Schneider , Austria
1995 – Châteaux de la colère –
Alessandro Baricco , Italy
1996 – Himmelfarb –
Michael Kruger , Germany and Sonietchka –
Lyudmila Ulitskaya , Russia
1997 –
The Tortilla Curtain (French title: America ) –
T. Coraghessan Boyle , United States
1998 – The House of Sleep –
Jonathan Coe , United Kingdom
1999 – Le capitaine et les rêves –
Bjorn Larsson , Sweden
2000 –
Anil's Ghost –
Michael Ondaatje , Canada
2001 – La noce du poète –
Antonio Skarmeta , Chile
2002 –
The Human Stain –
Philip Roth , United States
2003 – Le Mal de Montano –
Enrique Vila-Matas , Spain
2004 – Histoire d'une vie –
Aharon Appelfeld , Israel
2005 –
Snow (French title: Neige ) –
Orhan Pamuk , Turkey
2006 –
Return of the Hooligan –
Norman Manea , Romania
2007 –
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (French title: Les disparus ) –
Daniel Mendelsohn , United States
2008 – Un garçon parfait –
Alain Claude Sulzer , Switzerland
2009 –
What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng (French title: Le Grand Quoi ) –
Dave Eggers , United States
2010 – Sukkwan Island –
David Vann , United States
2011 –
To the End of the Land (French title: Une femme fuyant l'annonce ) –
David Grossman , Israel
2012 –
Spanish Charity (French title: Rétrospective ) –
A. B. Yehoshua , Israel
[9]
2013 – Op zee (French title: En mer ) –
Toine Heijmans , Netherlands.
[2]
2014 –
Lola Bensky –
Lily Brett , Australia.
[3]
2015 – Encore –
Hakan Günday ,
[4] Turkey
2016 – Les Elus –
Steve Sem-Sandberg , Sweden.
[10]
2017 – Les huit montagnes –
Paolo Cognetti , Italy
2018 –
The Mars Room (French title: Le Mars Club ) –
Rachel Kushner , United States
2019 – Miss Islande –
Audur Ava Olafsdottir , Iceland
2020 – Un andar solitario entre la gente (French title: Un promeneur solitaire dans la foule ) –
Antonio Muñoz Molina , Spain
[11]
2021 – La Clause paternelle –
Jonas Hassen Khemiri
2022 –
Grey Bees (French title: Les abeilles grises ) –
Andrey Kurkov
2023 – (tie) Misericordia –
Lidia Jorge (Portugal) and Impossibles adieux ,
Han Kang (South Korea)
Laureates Prix Médicis essai
References
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History of the prize (in French) (Archive.org 17 July 2011]
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c
"Marie Darrieussecq reçoit le prix Médicis pour "Il faut beaucoup aimer les hommes" " . Le Monde (in French). November 12, 2013. Retrieved November 13, 2013 .
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"Prix Médicis 2014 : Antoine Volodine supplante Éric Reinhardt" . Le Figaro (in French). 4 November 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014 .
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"Nathalie Azoulai, Hakan Günday et Nicole Lapierre, lauréats du Médicis 2015" . livreshebdo.fr . November 5, 2015. Retrieved November 7, 2015 .
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Mohammed Aïssaoui (November 2, 2016).
"Ivan Jablonka, l'histoire d'un extraordinaire Prix Médicis" . Le Figaro (in French). Retrieved November 2, 2016 .
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a
b Eléonore Sulser (9 November 2017).
"Le beau palmarès du Prix Médicis" .
Le Temps (in French). Retrieved 9 November 2017 .
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"Prix Médicis 2018 : Pierre Guyotat et Rachel Kushner primés" .
Hachette (in French). 6 November 2018. Retrieved 28 January 2019 .
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Le prix Médicis attribué à Luc Lang pour "La tentation"
Le Monde
^ Michal Shmulovich (November 6, 2012).
"Israeli author A.B. Yehoshua wins prestigious French literary award" . The Times of Israel . Retrieved November 7, 2012 .
^
a
b Vincy Thomas (November 2, 2016).
"Le Médicis 2016 couronne Ivan Jablonka, Jacques Henric et Steve Sem-Sandberg" . Livres Hebdo . Retrieved November 2, 2016 .
^ Moryoussef, Ilana (6 November 2020).
"Le Prix Médicis 2020 est décerné à Chloé Delaume, découvrez le palmarès complet" . www.franceinter.fr (in French). Retrieved 24 November 2020 .
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