The Prix Médicis is a French literary award given each year in November. It was founded in 1958 by Gala Barbisan and Jean-Pierre Giraudoux. It is awarded to an author whose "fame does not yet match their talent." In 1970 the Prix Médicis étranger, a foreign prize, was added to award a writer each year from around the world. The Prix Médicis essai has been awarded since 1980 for non-fictional works. [edit] Laureates Prix Médicis [edit] Laureates Prix Médicis étranger - 1970 - Saut de la mort - Luigi Malerba, Italy
- 1971 - none
- 1972 - Cobra - Severo Sarduy, Cuba
- 1973 - Life Is Elsewhere - Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakia
- 1974 - Libro de Manuel - Julio Cortázar, Argentina
- 1975 - La Vie trop brève d'Edwin Mulhouse - Steven Millhauser, United States
- 1976 - The Gold Coronet, Doris Lessing, United Kingdom
- 1977 - Le Traité des saisons - Hector Bianciotti, Argentina
- 1978 - L'Avenir radieux - Aleksandr Zinovyev, Russia
- 1979 - La harpe et l'ombre - Alejo Carpentier, Cuba
- 1980 - A Dry White Season - André Brink, South Africa
- 1981 - Le Jour de la comtesse - David Shahar, Israel
- 1982 - The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco, Italy
- 1983 - La route bleue - Kenneth White, Scotland
- 1984 - Aracoeli - Elsa Morante, Italy
- 1985 - God Knows - Joseph Heller, United States
- 1986 - Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade - John Hawkes, United States
- 1987 - Nocturne indien - Antonio Tabucchi, Italy
- 1988 - Les Maîtres anciens - Thomas Bernhard, Austria
- 1989 - La Neige de l'amiral - Álvaro Mutis, Colombia
- 1990 - Les feux du Bengale - Amitav Ghosh, India
- 1991 - none
- 1992 - Wartime Lies (French title: Une education polonaise) - Louis Begley, Poland
- 1993 - Leviathan - Paul Auster, United States
- 1994 - Frère Sommeil - Robert Schneider, Austria
- 1995 - Châteaux de la colère - Alessandro Baricco, Italy
- 1996 - Himmelfarb - Michael Kruger, Germany and Sonietchka - Ludmila Oulitskaïa, Russia
- 1997 - The Tortilla Curtain (French title: America) - T. Coraghessan Boyle, United States
- 1998 - The House of Sleep - Jonathan Coe, United Kingdom
- 1999 - Le capitaine et les rêves - Bjorn Larsson, Sweden
- 2000 - Anil's Ghost - Michael Ondaatje, Canada
- 2001 - La noce du poète - Antonio Skarmeta, Chile
- 2002 - The Human Stain - Philip Roth, United States
- 2003 - Le Mal de Montano - Enrique Vila-Matas, Spain
- 2004 - Histoire d'une vie - Aharon Appelfeld, Israel
- 2005 - Snow (French title: Neige) - Orhan Pamuk, Turkey
- 2006 - Return of the Hooligan - Norman Manea, Romania
- 2007 - The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (French title: Les disparus) - Daniel Mendelsohn, United States
- 2008 - Un garçon parfait - Alain Claude Sulzer, Switzerland
- 2009 - Le Grand Quoi - Dave Eggers, United-States
[edit] Laureates Prix Médicis essai |
