The Prix mondial Cino Del Duca (Cino Del Duca World Prize) is a major international literary award established in 1969 in France by Simone Del Duca (1912-2004) to continue the work of her late husband, publishing magnate Cino Del Duca (1899-1967). Designed to recognize and reward an author whose work constitutes, in a scientific or literary form, a message of modern humanism, the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca currently carries a 250,000 € prize.

In 1975, Madame Del Luca established the Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation for a variety of philanthropic purposes and it assumed responsibility for the Prix mondial. Following her death in 2004, the Foundation was placed under the auspices of the Institut de France.

[edit] Honorees

• 1969 : Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, ornithologist
• 1970 : Jean Anouilh, French dramatist
• 1971 : Ignazio Silone, Italian author
• 1972 : Victor Weisskopf, Austrian-American physicist
• 1973 : Jean Guéhenno, French writer
• 1974 : Andrei Sakharov, Soviet nuclear physicist
• 1975 : Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer
• 1976 : Lewis Mumford, American historian
• 1977 : Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist
• 1978 : Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and statesman
• 1979 : Jean Hamburger, French surgeon and essayist
• 1980 : Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer
• 1981 : Ernst Jünger, German author
• 1982 : Yachar Kemal, Turkish writer
• 1983 : Jacques Ruffié, French writer, educator
• 1984 : Georges Dumézil, French comparative philologist
• 1985 : William Styron, American novelist
• 1986 : Thierry Maulnier, French writer
• 1987 : Denis Burkitt, British surgeon
• 1988 : Henri Gouhier, French philosopher, historian
• 1989 : Carlos Chagas Filho, Brazilian physician and biologist
• 1990 : Jorge Amado, Brazilian novelist
• 1991 : Michel Jouvet, French Neurological researcher
• 1992 : Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer
• 1993 : Robert Mallet, French poet, essayist
• 1994 : Yves Pouliquen, French medical researcher
• 1995 : Yves Bonnefoy, French poet and essayist.
• 1996 : Alain F. Carpentier, French heart surgeon
• 1997 : Václav Havel, Czech writer, statesman
• 1998 : Zhen-yi Wang, Chinese pathophysiologist
• 1999 : Henri Amouroux, French historian
• 2000 : Jean Leclant, French Egyptologist
• 2001 : Yvon Gattaz, French businessman
• 2002 : François Nourissier, French writer
• 2003 : Nicole Le Douarin, French embryologist
• 2005 : Simon Leys, Belgian writer
• 2006 : Jean Clair, French essayist and art historian
• 2007 : Mona Ozouf, French historian and writer
• 2008 : Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian and Spanish writer
• 2009 : Milan Kundera, French and Czech writer.

[edit] References

• Fondation Del Duca information