Prix européen de l'essai Charles Veillon
The Prix européen de l'essai Charles Veillon was awarded annually from 1975 to 2010 by members of the Fondation Charles Veillon to European essayists . Since the 2010s, the awards have no longer been made annually; In 2016 and 2019, non-European winners were also honored for the first time.
history
The prize, founded in 1975 in honor of the namesake, was the first literary prize exclusively dedicated to the essay .
The Prix du Roman , founded by Charles Veillon (1900–1971) himself after the Second World War , was awarded every year in the three categories French, German and Italian. The prize should contribute to understanding in Europe through culture.
The prize is awarded in Lausanne , Switzerland , in conjunction with a public seminar. The foundation will then publish the results of the seminar as a brochure. The award ceremony is organized in collaboration with the University of Lausanne and the Librairie Payot .
Award winners
- 1975: Jacques Ellul
- 1976: Ernst F. Schumacher for Small is Beautiful , London 1973
- 1977: Alexander Zinoviev
- 1978: Roger Caillois
- 1979: Manès Sperber
- 1980: Leszek Kołakowski
- 1981: Norberto Bobbio
- 1982: Jean Starobinski
- 1983: Lars Gustafsson
- 1984: Alain Finkielkraut
- 1985: György Konrád
- 1986: Iso Camartin , Swiss author, for nothing but words. Plea for small languages , 1985
- 1987: Edgar Morin , Sephardic- French author, for his life's work
- 1988: Eduardo Lourenço , Portuguese author, for his life's work
- 1989: Timothy Garton Ash , British historian, for The Uses of Adversity. Essays on the Fate of Central Europe , 1989
- 1990: Karl Schlögel , German author
- 1991: Roberto Calasso , Italian essayist, for The Marriage of Cadmos and Harmony , 1991
- 1994: Dževad Karahasan , Bosnian author, for Diary of the Displacement , 1994
- 1995: Étienne Barilier , Swiss author, for Contre le Nouvel Obscurantisme. Èloge du progrès , 1995
- 1996: Dubravka Ugrešić , Croatian author, for The Culture of Lies , 1995
- 1997: Karl-Markus Gauß , Austrian essayist, for The European Alphabet , 1997
- 1998: Tzvetan Todorov , French philosopher, sociologist and author, for Benjamin Constant. La passion démocratique , 1997
- 1999: Amin Maalouf , French author, for Les identités meurtrières , 1988
- 2000: Peter Bichsel , Swiss author and journalist, for everything learned from me, columns 1995–1999 , 2000
- 2001: Jean-Claude Guillebaud , French author, essayist and journalist for Le Principe d'humanité , 2001
- 2002: Peter von Matt , Swiss Germanist and author, for Die Intenblauen Eidgenossen , 2001
- 2003: Alain de Botton , Swiss author, for L'Art du voyage , 2003
- 2004: Martin Meyer , Swiss journalist, philosopher and author, for War of Values. We Live to Survive , 2003
- 2006: Giorgio Agamben , Italian philosopher, essayist and author, for his life's work
- 2007: Jan Assmann , German Egyptologist, for his life's work
- 2008: Peter Sloterdijk , German philosopher and phenomenologist, for Zorn und Zeit , 2006
- 2009: Claudio Magris , Italian author, Germanist and journalist, for his life's work
- 2010: Jean-Claude Mathieu , French author, for Écrire, inscrire , Paris 2010
- 2012: Heinz Wismann , German classical philologist, for Penser entre les langues , Albin Michel, Paris 2012
- 2013: Harald Weinrich , German Romance studies and German studies, for his life's work
- 2016: Richard Sennett , American Sociologist, for Cooperation - What Keeps Our Society Together
- 2018: Marcel Gauchet , French historian and philosopher, for his life's work
- 2019: Siri Hustvedt , American writer, for Les Mirages de la certitude , 2018
- 2020: Alessandro Baricco , Italian writer, for The Game , 2018
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Double competence in FAZ from April 2, 2014, page 11.
- ^ Articles of Association in FAZ from February 10, 2016, page 9