Prix ​​Médicis

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The Prix ​​Médicis is a French literary prize . It was founded in 1958 by Gala Barbisan and Jean-Pierre Giraudoux to honor French-language novels or short stories by young promising and original authors. A prize for foreign-language novels has also been awarded since 1970 and a prize for essays since 1985 (although titles from other genre forms are occasionally awarded, such as in 2018).

Until 2007, the Prix Médicis were always awarded on the first Wednesday of November in the Parisian Hôtel de Crillon - on the same day as the Prix ​​Femina - since 2008 the award has usually taken place two days later in the Hôtel Lutetia .

Categories

The prize is awarded in the following categories:

category Original title awarded
since
novel Prix ​​Médicis 1958
Foreign novel Prix ​​Médicis étranger 1970
essay Prix ​​Médicis essai 1985

Award winners

novel

Award winner 2019: Luc Lang (La Tentation)

Up to 2019, books from the publisher Grasset (19 victories) were the most frequently awarded books , followed by Gallimard (12) and Seuil (11).

year Prize winner novel German title
1958 Claude Ollier La mise en scene
1959 Claude Mauriac Le Dîner en ville Dinner in town
1960 Henri Thomas John Perkins John Perkins
1961 Philippe Sollers Le Parc The park
1962 Colette Audry Derriere la baignoire Behind the bathtub
1963 Gérard Jarlot Un chat qui aboie
1964 Monique Wittig L'Opoponax Opoponax
1965 René-Victor Pilhes La Rhubarbe
1966 Marie-Claire Blais A season in la vie d'Emmanuel Black winter
1967 Claude Simon Histoire history
1968 Elie Wiesel Le Mendiant de Jérusalem The beggar of Jerusalem
1969 Hélène Cixous Dedans Inside
1970 Camille Bourniquel Sélinonte ou la Chambre impériale
1971 Pascal Lainé L'Irrévolution Irrevolution
1972 Maurice Clavel Le tiers des étoiles
1973 Tony Duvert Paysage de fantaisie
1974 Dominique Fernandez Porporino or the Mystères de Naples Porporino or the secrets of Naples
1975 Jacques Almira Le Voyage à Naucratis
1976 Marc Cholodenko Les états du désert
1977 Michel Butel L'Autre Amour
1978 Georges Perec La Vie mode d'emploi Life instruction manual
1979 Claude Durand La Nuit zoologique
1980 Jean-Luc Benoziglio Cabinet portrait Portrait session
1981 François-Olivier Rousseau L'Enfant d'Édouard
1982 Jean-François Josselin L'Enfer et Cie
1983 Jean Echenoz Cherokee Cherokee
1984 Bernard-Henri Lévy Le Diable en tete The devil in the head
1985 Michel Braudeau Naissance d'une passion
1986 Pierre Combescot Les Funérailles de la Sardine
1987 Pierre Mertens Les Éblouissements
1988 Christiane Rochefort La Porte du fond The door over there
1989 Serge Doubrovsky Le livre brisé
1990 Jean-Noël Pancrazi Quartiers d'hiver
1991 Yves Simon La Dérive des sentiments The drift of feelings
1992 Michel Rio Tlacuilo
1993 Emmanuelle Bernheim Sa femme The other
1994 Yves Berger Real estate in the courant du fleuve
1995 Vassilis Alexakis La Langue maternelle The Delphi Enigma
Andreï Makine Le Testament français The French Testament
1996 Jacqueline Harpman Orlanda Orlanda
Jean Rolin L'Organization
1997 Philippe Le Guillou Les sept noms du peintre
1998 Homeric Le Loup Mongol
1999 Christian Oster Mon grand apartment
2000 Yann Apperry Diabolus in Musica Blue notes
2001 Benoît Duteurtre Le Voyage en France
2002 Anne Garréta Pas un jour
2003 Hubert Mingarelli Quatre soldiers
2004 Marie Nimier La pure du silence
2005 Jean-Philippe Toussaint Fuir Flee
2006 Sorj Chalandon Une promesse
2007 Jean Hatzfeld La stratégie des antilopes
2008 Jean-Marie Blas de Robles Là où les tigres sont chez eux Where tigers are at home
2009 Dany Laferrière L'Énigme du retour The riddle of the return
2010 Maylis de Kerangal Naissance d'un pont The Coca Bridge
2011 Mathieu Lindon Ce qu'aimer veut dire
2012 Emmanuelle Pireyre Féerie générale
2013 Marie Darrieussecq Il faut beaucoup aimer les hommes You have to love men very much
2014 Antoine Volodine Terminus radieux
2015 Nathalie Azoulai Titus n'aimait pas Bérénice You don't die of love
2016 Ivan Jablonka Laëtitia ou la fin des hommes Laëtitia or The End of Manhood
2017 Yannick Haenel Tiens ferme ta couronne Hold your crown tight
2018 Pierre Guyotat idiocy idiocy
2019 Luc Lang La tentation

Foreign novel

Award winner 2019: The Icelander Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir (Miss Icelande )

Every year since 1970, the Prix ​​Médicis étranger has been awarded to a foreign-language novel translated into French.

The most successful authors in this category were US authors (12 wins), followed by their colleagues from Italy (7). The Austrians Thomas Bernhard (1988) and Robert Schneider (1994), the German Michael Krüger (1996) and the Swiss Alain Claude Sulzer were successful with their translated works from German-speaking countries .

Up to 2019, books from the publishing house Gallimard (13 victories) were awarded the most awards , followed by Grasset (9) and Seuil (6).

year Prize winner Title
(original title)		 German title
1970 Luigi Malerba Saut de la mort
(Salto mortale) 		Salto mortale
1971 James Dickey Délivrance
(Deliverance) 		River trip
1972 Severo Sarduy Cobra
(cobra) 		Cobra
1973 Milan Kundera La vie est ailleurs
(Život je jinde) 		Life is elsewhere
1974 Julio Cortazar Livre de Manuel
(Libro de Manuel) 		Album for Manuel
1975 Steven Millhauser La Vie trop brève d'Edwin Mulhouse
(Edwin Mullhouse) 		The Brief Life of Edwin Mullhouse
1976 Doris Lessing Le Carnet d'or
(The Golden Notebook) 		The golden notebook
1977 Héctor Bianciotti Le Traité des saisons
(La Busca del jardín)
1978 Alexander Zinoviev L'Avenir radieux
(Svetloe buduŝee) 		Bright future
1979 Alejo Carpentier La harpe et l'ombre
(El arpa y la sombra) 		The harp and the shadow
1980 André Brink Une Saison blanche et sèche
(A Dry White Season) 		White period of drought
1981 David Shahar Le Jour de la comtesse
( יום הרוזנת Ywm Harwzenet )
1982 Umberto Eco Le Nom de la rose
(Il nome della rosa) 		The name of the Rose
1983 Kenneth White La route bleue
(The Blue Road) 		The blue way
1984 Elsa Morante Aracoeli
(Aracoeli) 		Aracoeli
1985 Joseph Heller Dieu sait
(God Knows) 		God knows
1986 John Hawkes Aventures dans le commerce des peaux en Alaska
(Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade) 		Adventure among the fur traders in Alaska
1987 Antonio Tabucchi Nocturne india
(Notturno indiano) 		Indian night piece and an exchange of letters
1988 Thomas Bernhard Maîtres anciens
(Old Masters) 		Old Masters
1989 Álvaro Mutis La Neige de l'amiral
(La nieve del almirante) 		The admiral's snow
1990 Amitav Ghosh Les feux du Bengale
(The Circle of Reason) 		Bengali fire or the power of reason
1991 Pietro Citati Histoire qui fut heureuse, puis douloureuse et funeste
(Storia prima felice, poi dolentissima e funesta)
1992 Louis Begley Une education polonaise
(Wartime Lies) 		Lies in times of war
1993 Paul Auster Leviathan
(Leviathan) 		Leviathan
1994 Robert Schneider Frère Sommeil
(Sleep Brother) 		Sleep brother
1995 Alessandro Baricco Châteaux de la Colère
(Castelli di Rabbia) 		Land of glass
1996 Michael Kruger Sky color
(sky color) 		Sky color
Lyudmila Ulitskaya Sonietchka
(Сонечка, Sonečka) 		Sonetschka / Sonetschka and other stories
1997 TC Boyle America
(The Tortilla Curtain) 		America
1998 Jonathan Coe La maison du sommeil
(The House of Sleep) 		The house of sleep
1999 Bjorn Larsson Le capitaine et les rêves
(Drommar viv havet)
2000 Michael Ondaatje Le Fantôme d'Anil
(Anil's Ghost) 		Anil's ghost
2001 Antonio Skármeta La noce du poète
(La boda del poeta) 		The poet's wedding
2002 Philip Roth La tache
(The Human Stain) 		The human flaw
2003 Enrique Vila-Matas Le Mal de Montano
(El mal de Montano) 		Risks & side effects
2004 Aharon Appelfeld Histoire d'une vie
(Sippur̳ hayim̲̲) 		Story of a life
2005 Orhan Pamuk Neige
(Kar) 		snow
2006 Norman Manea Le Retour du hooligan
(Întoarcerea huliganului) 		The return of the hooligan
2007 Daniel Mendelsohn Les Disparus
(The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million) 		The lost ones
2008 Alain Claude Sulzer Un garçon parfait
(a perfect waiter) 		A perfect waiter
2009 Dave Eggers Le Grand Quoi
(What Is the What) 		Gone far
2010 David Vann Sukkwan Island
(Sukkwan Island) 		In the shadow of the father
2011 David Grossman Une femme fuyant l'annonce
(ʾIšah bwraḥat mibśwrah) 		A woman flees from a message
2012 Abraham B. Yehoshua Rétrospective
(Hessed sefaradi) 		Spanish mercy
2013 Toine Heijmans En mer
(Op zee) 		Odyssey
2014 Lily Brett Lola Bensky
(Lola Bensky) 		Lola Bensky
2015 Hakan Günday Encore
(Daha) 		Escape
2016 Steve Sem-Sandberg Les élus
(De utvalda) 		The chosen ones
2017 Paolo Cognetti Les huit montagnes
(Le otto montagne) 		Eight mountains
2018 Rachel Kushner Le Mars Club
(The Mars Room) 		I am a destiny
2019 Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir Miss Islande
(Ungfrú Ísland)

essay

Co-Prize Winner 2019: Bulle Ogier (J'ai oublié)

Every year since 1985, the Prix ​​Médicis essai has been awarded to a volume of essays in French or translated into French .

Up to 2019, books from the publisher Grasset (9 wins) were awarded the most awards , followed by Seuil (8).

year Prize winner novel German title
1985 Michel Serres Les Cinq Sens The five senses
1986 Georges Borgeaud Le Soleil sur Aubiac
1987 Václav Jamek Traité des courtes merveilles
1988 Prize not awarded
1990 René Girard Shakespeare, les feux de l'envie
1991 Alain Etchegoyen La Valse des éthiques
1992 Luc Ferry Le Nouvel Ordre écologique
1993 Michel Onfray La Sculpture de soi
1994 Jérôme Garcin Pour Jean Prévost
1995 Pascal Bruckner La Tentation de l'innocence I suffer therefore I am
1996 Viviane Forrester L'Horreur économique The terror of the economy
1997 Michel Winock Siècle des intellectuels The century of the intellectuals
1998 Alberto Manguel Une histoire de la lecture
(A History of Reading) 		A story of reading
1999 Christine Jordis Gens de la Tamise
2000 Armelle Lebras-Chopard Le zoo des philosophes
2001 Edwy Plenel Secrets de jeunesse
2002 Daniel Desmarquet Kafka et les jeunes filles
2003 Michel Schneider Morts imaginaires
2004 Diane de Margerie Aurore et George
2005 Marie Desplechin
Lydie Violet 		La vie sauve Dare to live
2006 Jean-Bertrand Pontalis Brother du précédent
2007 Joan Didion L'Année de la pensée magique
(The Year of Magical Thinking) 		The year of magical thinking
2008 Cécile Guilbert Warhol Spirit
2009 Alain Ferry Mémoire d'un fou d'Emma
2010 Michel Pastoureau La Couleur de nos souvenirs
2011 Sylvain Tesson In the forêts de Siberia In the forests of Siberia
2012 David Van Reybrouck Congo. Une histoire
(Congo. Een geschiedenis) 		Congo: a story
2013 Svetlana Alexievich La fin de l'homme rouge
(Vremja sekond-chėnd) 		Secondhand time
2014 Frédéric Pajak Manifestos incertain, tome 3 Uncertain manifest
2015 Nicole Lapierre Sauve qui peut la vie
2016 Jacques Henric Box
2017 Shulem Deen Celui qui va vers elle ne revient pas
(All Who Go Do Not Return)
2018 Stefano Massini Les frères Lehman
(Qualcosa sui Lehman)
2019 Bull Ogier
Anne Diatkine 		J'ai oublié

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