Prix littéraire de la Vocation
The Prix littéraire de la Vocation was created in 1976 by the Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet Foundation to make it easier for young French-speaking novelists between the ages of 18 and 30 to start their careers as writers.
It was presented annually in June on the terraces of the “Drugstore Publicis Champs-Elysée” and was endowed with 50,000 francs. Today you receive 7,700 euros in prize money. The address of the Fondation Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet pour la Vocation is: 104 rue de Rennes, 75006 Paris.
According to the regulations, the author's publisher must submit a copy of the work that was newly published the previous year between January and the end of April. The original French must be , translations will not be accepted. A jury then chooses. The winner receives half of the prize money in June, the other half in December.
Award winners
- 1976: for Les Régions Céréalières , by Jean-Marc Lovay , éditions Gallimard ( Bourse Del Duca )
- 1977: for Une fille pour l'hiver , by Alain Le Blanc , éditions Flammarion
- 1978: for Tristes banlieues by Walter Prevost , Éditions Bernard Grasset
- 1981: for Saad by Alain Blottière , Gallimard
- 1982: for Loin d'Aswerda by Jean-Marie Laclavetine , Gallimard
- 1984: for Poisson d'amour by Didier van Cauwelaert , Seuil
- 1985: for bravura from Emmanuel Carrère , POL
- 1986: for La salle de bains by Jean-Philippe Toussaint , éditions de Minuit
- 1989: for Duo Forte by Eric Holder , Grasset
- 1992: for Le Lycée des Artistes by Jean-Marc Parisis , Grasset
- 1993: for Le Sabotage amoureux by Amélie Nothomb , éditions Albin Michel
- 1995: for absinthe by Christophe Bataille , Arléa
- 1996: for Les Funambules by Antoine Bello , Gallimard
- 1997: for Le Grenadier by Dominique Mainard , Gallimard
- 1998: for Porte de la Paix Céleste by Shan Sa , éditions du Rocher
- 2000: for Sauvageons by Benjamin Berton , Gallimard
- 2001: for Le Chien d'Ulysse (German: The Dog of Odysseus , 2003) by Salim Bachi , Lenos Verlag
- 2002: for L'Absolue Perfection du crime by Tanguy Viel , éditions de Minuit
- 2004: for Génération spontanée by Christophe Ono-Dit-Biot , Plon
- 2005: for L'angoisse de la première phrase by Bernard Quiriny , Phébus
- 2006: for Un baiser à la russe by Gaspard Koenig , Grasset
- 2007: for Supplément au roman national by Jean-Eric Boulin , éditions Stock
- 2008: for Jeune Professionnel by Guillaume Noyelle
- 2009: for Chute libre by Emilie de Turckheim , éditions du Rocher
- 2011: for ex æquo Chute libre by Kaouther Adimi , éditions Actes Sud and Requiem pour Lola rouge , by Pierre Ducrozet , éditions Grasset
- 2012: for La vérité sur l'affaire Harry Quebert by Joël Dicker , éditions de Fallois
- 2013: for Tu montreras ma tête au peuple by François-Henri Désérable , éditions Gallimard
- 2014: for Constellation by Adrien Bosc , éditions Stock
- 2015: for Le Voyage d'Octavio by Miguel Bonnefoy , éditions Rivages
- 2016: for L'Éveil by Line Papin , éditions Stock
- 2017: for L'Été des charognes by Simon Johannin , éditions Allia, and Mise en pièces by Nina Leger , Gallimard
- 2018: for Nage libre by Boris Bergmann , Éd. Calmann-Lévy
- 2019: for La Chaleur by Victor Jestin , Flammarion
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Liberation of June 15, 2000: Benjamin Berton, prix littéraire de la Vocation
- ↑ a b c http://www.evene.fr/culture/agenda/prix-litteraire-de-la-vocation-23285.php
- ↑ http://pagesperso-orange.fr/fondationpourlavocation/prix_litteraire.htm
- ↑ international literature festival berlin : guest of the ilb 2006
Web links
- Price description (PDF) (French)