Société des gens de lettres

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The Sociéte des gens de lettres de France (SGDLF) (in English: Society of Men of Letters of France) was founded in 1838 by the famous writers Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, and George Sand. It is a private association recognised as an establishment in the public interest by decree of December 10, 1891.

In France, it is the only writer's association run by writers with the task of defending the moral rights, the legal interests, and the social and legal status of all writers. It protects, considers and proposes new laws and advantages for the benefit of the community of writers. It is directed by a volunteer committee consisting of twenty-four writers and is presently led by the novelist Alain Absire.

To become a member of the Society, one must be a writer and, more precisely, have been published by a publishing house (self-published works do not count). The SGDLF offers social and legal assistance to its members as well as a service for depositing completed works in order to guarantee their rights as original author in the case of a legal dispute. Each year it organises diverse cultural events and awards a certain number of €75,000 prizes in recognition of published works (published by publishing houses).

The SGLDF occupies the lovely 18th-century neoclassical Hôtel de Massa in Paris, a building with the strange history of having been moved stone by stone in 1928, from its original site on the Champs-Élysées to its present site at the base of the garden of the Observatoire de Paris, rue de Faubourg-Saint-Jacques in Paris.

Prizes of the ''Société of the men of letters''

Spring session

  • Prizes recognising the entire oeuvre of an author
  • Prizes recognising a single work
    • Grand Prix SGDL du roman, founded in 1947
    • Grand Prix SGDL de la nouvelle, founded in 1984
    • Grand Prix SGDL du livre d'Histoire / Essai, founded in 1986
    • Grand Prix SGDL du livre Jeunesse, founded in 1982
    • Prix de poésie Charles Vildrac, founded in 1973
    • Grand Prix SGDL de l'œuvre Multimédia

Fall session

  • Prizes recognising a single work
    • Grand Prix Thyde Monnier de la SGDL, founded in 1975
    • Bourses Thyde Monnier, since 1975
    • Bourses Poncetton

Prizes for translation

  • Prix Halpérine-Kaminsky Consécration, since 1993
  • Prix Halpérine-Kaminsky Découverte, since 1993
  • Prix Gérard de Nerval
  • Prix Baudelaire
  • Prix Maurice-Edgar Coindreau

See also

External links

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