The
Prix Médicis is a French
literary
award given each year in November. It was founded in 1958 by
Gala Barbisan and
Jean-Pierre Giraudoux. It is awarded
to an author whose "fame does not yet match their talent." In 1970
the
Prix Médicis étranger, a foreign prize, was added to
award a writer each year from around the world. The
Prix
Médicis essai has been awarded since 1980 for non-fictional
works.
Laureates Prix Médicis
Laureates Prix Médicis étranger
- 1970 -
Saut de la mort - Luigi
Malerba, Italy
- 1971 - none
- 1972 -
Cobra - Severo Sarduy,
Cuba
- 1973 -
Life Is Elsewhere - Milan
Kundera, Czechoslovakia
- 1974 -
Libro de Manuel - Julio
Cortázar, Argentina
- 1975 -
La Vie trop brève d'Edwin Mulhouse - Steven Millhauser, United States
- 1976 -
The Gold Coronet, Doris
Lessing, United
Kingdom
- 1977 -
Le Traité des saisons - Hector Bianciotti, Argentina
- 1978 -
L'Avenir radieux - Aleksandr
Zinovyev, Russia
- 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, Scotland
- 1984
- Aracoeli - Elsa Morante,
Italy
- 1985
- God Knows - Joseph Heller, United States
- 1986
- Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade - John Hawkes, United States
- 1987
- Nocturne indien - Antonio
Tabucchi, Italy
- 1988
- Les Maîtres anciens - Thomas
Bernhard, Austria
- 1989
- La Neige de l'amiral - Álvaro Mutis, Colombia
- 1990
- Les feux du Bengale - Amitav
Ghosh, India
- 1991 - none
- 1992
- Wartime Lies (French title:
Une education polonaise) - Louis
Begley, Poland
- 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 - Ludmila Oulitskaïa, 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
Laureates Prix Médicis essai
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