Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française
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Le Grand Prix du Roman is a French
literary award
, created in 1918, and given each year by the Académie française
. Along with the Prix Goncourt
, it is one of the oldest and most prestigious literary awards in France. The Académie française gives out over 60 literary awards each year, the Grand Prix du roman is the most senior for an individual novel.
France
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literary award
Literary award
A literary award is an award presented to an author who has written a particularly lauded piece or body of work. There are awards for forms of writing ranging from poetry to novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing . There are also awards...
, created in 1918, and given each year by the Académie française
Académie française
L'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...
. Along with the Prix Goncourt
Prix Goncourt
The Prix Goncourt is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year"...
, it is one of the oldest and most prestigious literary awards in France. The Académie française gives out over 60 literary awards each year, the Grand Prix du roman is the most senior for an individual novel.
List of the laureates
- 2011 : Sorj ChalandonSorj ChalandonSorj Chalandon is a French writer and journalist. From 1973 until 2007 he worked as a journalist on Libération where, among other things, he covered events in Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Somalia and Afghanistan. In 1988 he received the Albert Londres Prize for his articles on Northern Ireland and the...
, with Return to KillybegsReturn to KillybegsReturn to Killybegs is a 2011 novel by the French writer Sorj Chalandon. The narrative is inspired by the 2006 murder of Denis Donaldson, a senior Sinn Féin member who was revealed as a British secret agent. Chalandon had befriended Donaldson while working as a journalist in Belfast...
(Éditions Grasset) - 2010 : Eric Faye, with Nagasaki (Editions Stock)
- 2009 : Pierre MichonPierre MichonPierre Michon is a French writer. His first novel, Small lives , is widely regarded as a masterpiece in contemporary French literature. He won several prizes for Small lives, The Origin of the World and his body of work...
, with Les Onze (Verdier) - 2008 : Marc Bressant, with La dernière Conférence (Editions de Fallois)
- 2007 : Vassilis Alexakis, with Ap. J.-C. (Stock)
- 2006 : Jonathan LittellJonathan LittellJonathan Littell is a bilingual writer living in Barcelona. He grew up in France and United States and is a dual citizen of both countries. After acquiring his bachelor degree he worked for a humanitarian organisation for nine years, leaving his job in 2001 in order to concentrate on writing...
, with Les Bienveillantes (Gallimard) - 2005 : Henriette Jelinek, with Le Destin de Iouri Voronine (Editions de Fallois)
- 2004 : Bernard du BoucheronBernard du BoucheronBernard du Boucheron is a French writer .Writer with an impeccable style, both nervous and glacial.-Awards:*2004 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française for his first novel Court Serpent .*2010 Impac Dublin award...
, with Court serpent (Gallimard) - 2003 : Jean-Noël Pancrazi, with Tout est passé si vite (Gallimard)
- 2002 : Marie Ferranti, with la Princesse de Mantoue (Gallimard)
- 2001 : Éric Neuhoff, with Un bien fou (Albin Michel)
- 2000 : Pascal QuignardPascal QuignardPascal Quignard is a French writer born in Verneuil-sur-Avre, Eure. In 2002 his novel Les Ombres errantes won the Prix Goncourt, France's top literary prize. Terrasse à Rome , received the French Academy prize in 2000...
, with Terrasse à Rome (Gallimard) - 1999 : François TaillandierFrançois TaillandierFrançois Taillandier is a French writer portraying the French contemporary society.-Life:Henri Vernes, creator of Bob Morane, fired a passion the 12-year-old Taillandier was not going to give up....
, with Anielka (Stock) (split award) - 1999 : Amélie NothombAmélie NothombAmélie Nothomb is a Belgian writer who writes in French.- Biography :Amélie Nothomb was born in Kobe, Japan to Belgian diplomats. She lived there until she was five years old, and then subsequently lived in China, New York, Bangladesh, Burma, Coventry and Laos...
, with Stupeur et tremblements (Albin Michel) (split award) - 1998 : Anne WiazemskyAnne WiazemskyPrincess Anne Wiazemsky is a French actress and novelist, of the Russian Rurikid family of Princes Vyazemsky-Counts Levashov. Through her mother, she is the granddaughter of François Mauriac. She appeared in Robert Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar and in Godard's films La Chinoise and Week End...
, with Une poignée de gens (Gallimard) - 1997 : Patrick RambaudPatrick RambaudPatrick Rambaud is a French writer.-Life:With Michel-Antoine Burnier, he wrote forty pastiches, .They wrote Le Journalisme sans peine ....
, with La BatailleThe Battle (novel)The Battle is a historical novel by the French author Patrick Rambaud that was first published in 1997. The English translation by Will Hobson appeared in 2000. The book describes the 1809 Battle of Aspern-Essling between the French Empire under Napoleon and the Austrian Empire...
(Grasset) - 1996 : Calixthe BeyalaCalixthe BeyalaCalixthe Beyala is a Cameroonian writer who writes in French.She grew up in Douala with her sister. In 1978, She left Cameroon for France...
, with les Honneurs perdus (Albin Michel) - 1995 : Alphonse BoudardAlphonse BoudardAlphonse Boudard is a French novelist and playwright. He won the 1977 Prix Renaudot for Les Combattants du petit bonheur....
, with Mourir d'enfance (Robert Laffont) - 1994 : Frédéric VitouxFrédéric VitouxFrédéric Vitoux is a French writer and journalist.He is known as a novelist, biographer and literary columnist.He was elected at the Académie Française in 2001...
, with la Comédie de Terracina (Seuil) - 1993 : Philippe BeaussantPhilippe BeaussantPhilippe Beaussant is a French musicologist and novelist, an expert on French baroque music, on which he has published widely. He is the founder of the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, of which he was the artistic adviser of 1987 to 1996. He has also been a producer of musical programs for...
, with Héloïse (Gallimard) - 1992 : Franz-Olivier GiesbertFranz-Olivier GiesbertFranz-Olivier Giesbert is a French journalist and author. He worked for Le Figaro from 1988 to 2000 and Le Point starting in 2000.-Novels:*Un très grand amour, 2010, éditions Gallimard...
, pour l'Affreux (Grasset) - 1991 : François SureauFrançois SureauFrançois Sureau is a French writer, lawyer and technocrat. He was born in the 14th arrondissement of Paris and educated at the École nationale d'administration . He is a co-founder and co-director of the French Review of Economics. He is also the founding president of the Association Pierre Claver...
, with l'Infortune (Gallimard) - 1990 : Paule ConstantPaule ConstantPaule Constant is a French novelist.She graduated from Paris-Sorbonne University, with a Ph.D.-Awards:* 1988 Prix Goncourt for Confidence pour confidence.* 1989 Grand prize for the novel Académie française...
, with White Spirit (Gallimard) - 1989 : Geneviève Dormann, with le Bal du dodo (Albin Michel)
- 1988 : François-Olivier Rousseau, with la Gare, Wannsee (Grasset)
- 1987 : Frédérique Hébrard, with le Harem (Flammarion)
- 1986 : Pierre-Jean RémyPierre-Jean RémyPierre-Jean Rémy is the pen-name of Jean-Pierre Angremy who was a French diplomat, novelist, and essayist. He was elected to the Académie française on 16 June 1988, and won the 1986 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française for his novel Une ville immortelle.-Early life:Rémy was born in...
, with Une ville immortelle (Albin Michel) - 1985 : Patrick BessonPatrick Besson-Life:Besson was born of a Russian father and a Croatian mother . He published his first novel, Early Mornings Of Love, in 1974, aged 17.A Communist sympathizer, Besson is a literary chronicler with the newspaper L'Humanité...
, with Dara (Seuil) - 1984 : Jacques-Francis Rolland, with Un dimanche inoubliable près des casernes (Grasset)
- 1983 : Liliane Gignabodet, with Natalia (Albin Michel)
- 1982 : Vladimir VolkoffVladimir VolkoffVladimir Volkoff , was a French writer of Russian extraction. He produced both literary works for adults and spy novels for young readers under the pseudonym Lieutenant X. Volkoff is sometimes considered the French Cold War writer par excellence...
, with le Montage (Julliard) - 1981 : Jean RaspailJean RaspailJean Raspail is a French author, traveler and explorer.Jean Raspail was born the son of factory manager Octave Raspail and Marguerite Chaix...
, with Moi, Antoine de Tounens, roi de Patagonie (Albin Michel) - 1980 : Louis GardelLouis GardelLouis Gardel is a notable French novelist, screenwriter, and publisher, born in Algiers in 1939. He is also publishing director of Éditions du Seuil and a permanent member of the Prix Renaudot jury.- Bibliography :* L'Été fracassé...
, with Fort Saganne (Seuil) - 1979 : Henri Coulonges, with l'Adieu à la femme sauvage (Stock)
- 1978 : Pascal Jardin, with le Nain jaune (Julliard)
- 1977 : Camille Bourniquel, with Tempo (Julliard)
- 1976 : Pierre SchoendoerfferPierre SchoendoerfferPierre Schoendoerffer is a French film director, a screenwriter, a writer, a war reporter, a war cameraman, a renowned First Indochina War veteran, a cinema academician and since 2001 the President of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.-Family:...
, with le Crabe-tambour (Grasset) - 1975 : No prize was awarded in 1975.
- 1974 : Kléber Haedens, with Adios (Grasset)
- 1973 : Michel DéonMichel DéonMichel Déon is a French writer.With Antoine Blondin, Jacques Laurent and Roger Nimier, he belonged to the literary group of the Hussards. He is a novelist as well as a literary columnist....
, with Un taxi mauve (Gallimard) - 1972 : Patrick ModianoPatrick ModianoPatrick Modiano is a French novelist born 30 July 1945 in Boulogne-Billancourt of a father of Jewish Italian origins and a Belgian mother, Louisa Colpijn . He is a winner of the Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1972, the Prix Goncourt in 1978 for his novel Rue des boutiques obscures...
, with les Boulevards de ceinture (Gallimard) - 1971 : Jean d'OrmessonJean d'OrmessonCount Jean Lefèvre d'Ormesson is a French novelist whose work mostly consists of partially or totally autobiographic novels.- Life :...
, with la Gloire de l'Empire (Gallimard) - 1970 : Bertrand Poirot-DelpechBertrand Poirot-DelpechBertrand Poirot-Delpech was a French journalist, essayist and novelist. He was elected to the Académie française on 10 April 1986.-Early life:...
, with la Folle de Lituanie (Gallimard) - 1969 : Pierre Moustiers, with La Paroi (Gallimard).
- 1968 : Albert CohenAlbert CohenAlbert Cohen was a Greek-born Romaniote Jewish Swiss novelist who wrote in French. He worked as a civil servant for various international organizations, such as the International Labour Organization...
, with Belle du Seigneur (Gallimard) - 1967 : Michel TournierMichel TournierMichel Tournier is a French writer.His works are highly considered and have won important awards such as the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1967 for Friday, or, The Other Island and the Prix Goncourt for The Erl-King in 1970...
, with Vendredi ou les Limbes du PacifiqueVendredi ou les Limbes du PacifiqueFriday, or, The Other Island is a 1967 novel by French writer Michel Tournier. It retells Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. The first edition of the book was published 15th March 1967...
(Gallimard) - 1966 : François NourissierFrançois NourissierFrançois Nourissier was a French journalist and writer.Nourissier was the secretary-general of Éditions Denoël , editor of the review La Parisienne , and an adviser with the Éditions Grasset Paris publishing house .In 1970, he won the Prix Femina for his book La crève...
, with Une histoire française (Grasset) - 1965 : Jean Husson, with le Cheval d'Herbeleau (Seuil)
- 1964 : Michel DroitMichel DroitMichel Droit was a French novelist and journalist. He was the father of the photographer Éric Droit .-Life:...
, with le RetourLe Retour (novel)Le Retour was a 1964 novel by Michel Droit, published by Éditions Julliard and winning the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française for 1964....
(Julliard) - 1963 : Robert MargeritRobert MargeritMargerit Robert was a French journalist and writer.- Biography :He completed high school in Limoges; he was a journalist in Limoges in 1931....
, with la Révolution (Gallimard) - 1962 : Michel MohrtMichel MohrtMichel Mohrt was an editor, essayist, novelist and historian of French literature.Mohrt was born in Morlaix, Finistère. He was elected to the Académie française on 18 April 1985...
, with la Prison maritime (Gallimard) - 1961 : Pham Van Ky, with Perdre la demeure (Gallimard)
- 1960 : Christian Murciaux, with Notre-Dame des désemparés (PlonPlon (publisher)Plon is a French book publishing company, founded in 1852 by Henri Plon and his two brothers.The Plon family were Walloons coming from Nivelle, France. One of their ancestors is probably the Danish typographer Jehan Plon who lived at the end of the 16th century.-History:The Editions Plon were...
) - 1959 : Gabriel d'Aubarède, with la Foi de notre enfance (Flammarion)
- 1958 : Henri Queffélec, with Un royaume sous la mer (Presses de la Cité)
- 1957 : Jacques de Bourbon BussetJacques de Bourbon BussetJacques de Bourbon Busset, Count of Busset was a French novelist, essayist and politician. He was elected to the Académie française on June 4, 1981.-Bibliography:...
, with le Silence et la Joie (Gallimard) - 1956 : Paul GuthPaul GuthPaul Guth was a French humorist, journalist and writer, and the President of the Académie des provinces françaises....
, with le Naïf locataire (Albin Michel) - 1955 : Michel de Saint-Pierre, with les Aristocrates (La Table ronde)
- 1954 : Paul Mousset, with Neige sur un amour nippon (Gallimard) (split award)
- 1954 : Pierre MoinotPierre MoinotPierre Moinot was a French novelist. He was elected to the Académie française on 21 January 1982.-Bibliography:*Armes et Bagages, roman...
, with la Chasse royale (Grasset) (split award) - 1953 : Jean HougronJean HougronJean Hougron, French novelist Jean Hougron is a French novelist born in 1923 and deceased in 2000. He is famous for his series of novels which occur in French Indochina in the 20th century, where he resided and travelled for several years...
, with Mort en fraude (Donnat) - 1952 : Henri Castillou, with le Feu de l'Etna (Albin Michel)
- 1951 : Bernard Barbey, with Chevaux abandonnés sur le champ de bataille (Julliard)
- 1950 : Joseph Jolinon, with les Provinciaux (Milieu du Monde)
- 1949 : Yvonne Pagniez, with Évasion (Flammarion)
- 1948 : Yves Gandon, with Ginèvre (Henri Lefèvre)
- 1947 : Philippe HériatPhilippe HériatPhilippe Hériat was a multi-talented French novelist, playwright and actor.-Biography:Born Raymond Gérard Payelle, he studied with film director René Clair and in 1920 made his debut in silent film...
, with Famille Boussardel (Gallimard) - 1946 : Jean Orieux, with Fontagre (Éditions de la Revue Fontaine)
- 1945 : Marc Blancpain, with le Solitaire (Flammarion)
- 1944 : Pierre de Lagarde, with Valmaurie (Baudinière)
- 1943 : J. H. Louwyck, with Danse pour ton ombre (Plon)
- 1942 : Jean Blanzat, with l'Orage du matin (Grasset)
- 1941 : Roger Bourget-Pailleron, with la Folie d'Hubert (Gallimard)
- 1940 : Édouard Peisson, with le Voyage d'Edgar (Grasset)
- 1939 : Antoine de Saint-ExupéryAntoine de Saint-ExupéryAntoine de Saint-Exupéry , officially Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint Exupéry , was a French writer, poet and pioneering aviator. He became a laureate of France's highest literary awards, and in 1939 was the winner of the U.S. National Book Award...
, with Terre des hommesWind, Sand and StarsWind, Sand and Stars is a memoir by Antoine de Saint Exupéry published in 1939. It was translated from the French by Lewis Galantière, and published in the US in November 1945....
(Gallimard) - 1938 : Jean de La Varende, with le Centaure de Dieu (Grasset)
- 1937 : Guy de PourtalèsGuy de PourtalèsGuy de Pourtalès was a Swiss author.-Early life and education :He was the son of Herman Alexander de Pourtalès and his first wife, Marguerite "Daisy" Marcet . Guy was born in Berlin, where his father at that time was an officer in the service of the Prussian king Wilhelm I...
, with la Pêche miraculeuse (Gallimard) - 1936 : Georges BernanosGeorges BernanosGeorges Bernanos was a French author, and a soldier in World War I. Of Roman Catholic and monarchist leanings, he was a violent adversary to bourgeois thought and to what he identified as defeatism leading to France's defeat in 1940.-Biography:Bernanos was born at Paris, into a family of...
, with Journal d'un curé de campagne (Plon) - 1935 : Albert Touchard, with la Guêpe (Les éditions de France)
- 1934 : Paule Régnier, with l'Abbaye d'Évolayne (Plon)
- 1933 : Roger Chauviré, with Mademoiselle de Bois-Dauphin (Flammarion)
- 1932 : Jacques ChardonneJacques ChardonneJacques Chardonne is the pseudonym of French writer Jacques Boutelleau...
, with Claire (Grasset) - 1931 : Henri PourratHenri PourratHenry Pourrat was a French writer and anthropologist who collected the oral literature of the Auvergne.-Biography :...
, with Gaspard des montagnes (Albin Michel) - 1930 : Jacques de LacretelleJacques de LacretelleJacques de Lacretelle was a French novelist. He was elected to the Académie française on November 12, 1936.-Bibliography:* 1920 La vie inquiète de Jean Hermelin...
, with Amour nuptial (Gallimard) - 1929 : André Demaison, with le Livre des bêtes qu'on appelle sauvages (Grasset)
- 1928 : Jean Balde, with Reine d'Arbieu (Plon)
- 1927 : Joseph KesselJoseph KesselJoseph Kessel was a French journalist and novelist.He was born in Villa Clara, Entre Ríos, Argentina, because of the constant journeys of his father, a Lithuanian doctor of Jewish origin. Joseph Kessel lived the first years of his childhood in Orenburg, Russia, before the family moved to France...
, with les Captifs (Gallimard) - 1926 : François MauriacFrançois MauriacFrançois Mauriac was a French author; member of the Académie française ; laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature . He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur .-Biography:...
, with le Désert de l'amour (Grasset) - 1925 : François Duhourcau, with l'Enfant de la victoire (La Vraie France)
- 1924 : Émile HenriotÉmile Henriot (writer)Émile Henriot was a French poet, novelist, essayist and literary critic.-Life:A son of the caricaturist Henri Maigrot, known under the pen name Henriot, he fought in the First World War. He first wrote as a journalist for Temps in the inter-war period...
, with Aricie Brun ou les Vertus bourgeoises (Plon) - 1923 : Alphonse de ChâteaubriantAlphonse de ChâteaubriantAlphonse Van Bredenbeck de Châteaubriant was a French writer who won the Prix Goncourt in 1911 for his novel Monsieur de Lourdines and Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française for La Brière in 1923....
, with La BrièreLa BrièreLa Brière is a 1923 novel by Alphonse de Chateaubriant that won the Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française for that year....
(Grasset) - 1922 : Francis CarcoFrancis CarcoFrancis Carco was a French author, born at Nouméa, New Caledonia. He was a poet, belonging to the Fantaisiste school, a novelist, a dramatist, and art critic for L'Homme libre and Gil Blas. During the War he became aviation pilot at Étampes, after studying at the aviation school there...
, with l'Homme traqué (Albin Michel) - 1921 : Pierre Villetard, with Monsieur Bille dans la tourmente (Fasquelle)
- 1920 : André Corthis, with Pour moi seule (Albin Michel)
- 1919 : Pierre BenoitPierre Benoit (novelist)Pierre Benoît was a French novelist and member of the Académie française.Pierre Benoit, born in Albi was the son of a French soldier. Benoit spent his early years and military service in Northern Africa, before becoming a civil servant...
, with l'Atlantide (Albin Michel) - 1918 : Camille Mayran, with Gotton Gonnixloo (Plon)