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Jan Michalski Prize
Jan Michalski Prize for Literature (French: Prix Jan Michalski) is a Swiss literary prize for any work of fiction or non-fiction published anywhere in the world in any language.[1][2] It is meant to recognize authors from around the world and world literature in general. The jury is multicultural and multilingual in composition.
The award was launched October 2009[1] and the first winner was announced November 2010. The winner receives SFr 50,000. The authors of finalists are invited for a three-month period of residence in the Maison de l'écriture.[3]
The prize was created by the Jan Michalski Foundation for Writing and Literature (Fondation Jan Michalski pour l’Ecriture et la Littérature), founded in 2004 at the initiative of Vera Michalski-Hoffmann in memory of her husband Jan Michalski.[4] It is located in Montricher, Switzerland.[5]
Honorees edit
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Aleksandar Hemon | The Lazarus Project | Winner | [6] |
| Yousef Al-Mohaimeed | Wolves of the Crescent Moon | Finalist | ||
| Tim Flannery | The Weather Makers | |||
| Laurent Binet | HHhH | Nominee | ||
| Péter Esterházy | Celestial Harmonies | |||
| Alois Hotschnig | Im Sitzen läuft es sich besser davon | |||
| Victor Malakhov | Ouïazvimost' lioubvi | |||
| Frédéric Martinez | Claude Monet, une vie au fil de l'eau | |||
| Klaus Merz | Der Argentinier | |||
| Pavel Sanaev | Pokhoronite menia za plintousom | |||
| 2011 | György Dragomán | The White King | Winner | [7] |
| Miguel Syjuco | Ilustrado | Finalist | ||
| Sjón | The Blue Fox | |||
| Liu Xiaobo | No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems | Nominee | ||
| Peter Fröberg Idling | Pol Pot's Smile | |||
| Mark Kharitonov | The Solitude Project | |||
| György Dragomán | Godot's Shadow | |||
| 2012 | Julia Lovell | The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China | Winner | [8] |
| Martin Pollack | Kaiser von Amerika: Die grosse Flucht aus Galizien | Finalist | ||
| Timothy Snyder | Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin | |||
| Philippe Cassard | Franz Schubert | Nominee | ||
| Patrick Deville | Kampuchéa | |||
| Mark Gevisser | Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred | |||
| Donald Ray Pollock | The Devil All The Time | |||
| Maria Rybakova | Poignard perçant pour un coeur tendre | |||
| Bruno Smolarz | Hokusaï aux doigts d'encre | |||
| 2013 | Mahmoud Dowlatabadi | The Colonel | Winner | [9][10] |
| Serge Gruzinski | L'aigle et le Dragon | Finalist | [11] | |
| Steve Sem-Sandberg | The Emperor of Lies | |||
| Robert Macfarlane | The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot | |||
| Uday Prakash | The Walls of Delhi | |||
| Janusz Głowacki | Good night, Dzerzi! | Nominee | ||
| Chan Koonchung | The Fat Years | |||
| Charu Nivedita | Zero Degree | |||
| Tiphaine Samoyault | Bête de cirque | |||
| Enrique Vila-Matas | Chet Baker piensa en su arte | |||
| Chris Ware | Building Stories | |||
| 2014 | Serhiy Zhadan | Voroshylovhrad | Winner | [12][13] |
| Mark Gevisser | Dispatcher: Lost and Found in Johannesburg | Finalist | ||
| Marci Shore | The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe | |||
| Rana Mitter | China's War with Japan: The Struggle for Survival | Nominee | ||
| Jaume Cabré | Confiteor | |||
| Raymond Bock | Atavismes | |||
| Camille de Toledo | Oublier, trahir puis disparaître | |||
| Paul Harding | Enon | |||
| Fanny Howe | Second Childhood | |||
| Wojciech Nowicki | Salki | |||
| Dragan Velikić | Bonavia | |||
| Najem Wali | Engel des Südens | |||
| 2015 | Mark Thompson | Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kiš | Winner | [14] |
| Navid Kermani | Between Quran and Kafka: West-Eastern Inquiries | Finalist | ||
| Najem Wali | Bagdad Marlboro: Ein Roman für Bradley Manning | |||
| Jean-Noël Orengo | La Fleur du Capital | Second selection | ||
| Ari Shavit | My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel | |||
| 2016 | Georgi Gospodinov | Physics of Sorrow | Winner | [15][16] |
| Dzevad Karahasan | The Solace of the Night Sky | Finalist | ||
| Aatish Taseer | The Way Things Were | |||
| Julian Barnes | Levels of Life | Second selection | ||
| Navid Kermani | Ungläubiges Staunen. Über das Christentum | |||
| 2017 | Thierry Wolton | Une histoire mondiale du communisme | Winner | [17] |
| Lawrence Liang et al. | Invisible Libraries | Finalist | ||
| Liao Yiwu | Die Wiedergeburt der Ameisen | |||
| Paul Kalanithi | When Breath Becomes Air | Second selection | ||
| Wioletta Greg | Swallowing Mercury | |||
| 2018 | Olga Tokarczuk | The Books of Jacob | Winner | [18] |
| Yuval Noah Harari | Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow | Finalist | ||
| Jean Rolin | Le traquet kurde | |||
| Norman Ohler | Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich | Second selection | ||
| Patrick McGuinness | Other People's Countries: A Journey into Memory | |||
| 2019 | Zeruya Shalev | Pain | Winner | [19] |
| Francesca Melandri | Sangue Giusto | Finalist | ||
| Patrik Ouředník | La fin du monde n'aurait pas eu lieu | |||
| Antonio Iturbe | The Librarian of Auschwitz | First selection | ||
| Morgan Sportès | Le ciel ne parle pas | |||
| Long Litt Woon | The Way Through The Woods: Of Mushrooms and Mourning | |||
| 2020 | Mia Couto with David Brookshaw (trans.) | Sands of the Emperor | Winner | [20][21] |
| Fran Ross | Oreo | Finalist | ||
| Philippe Sands | East West Street | |||
| Erik Orsenna | Briser en nous la mer gelée | Second selection | ||
| Bernard Quiriny | Vies conjugales | |||
| 2021 | Memorial International (Alena Kozlova, Nikolai Mikhailov, Irina Ostrovskaya, and Irina Scherbakova) with Georgia Thomson (trans.) | OST: Letters, Memoirs and Stories from Ostarbeiter in Nazi Germany | Winner | [22] |
| Frank Huyler | White Hot Light: Twenty-five Years in Emergency Medicine | Finalist | ||
| Eduardo Halfon with Lisa Dillman and Daniel Hahn (trans.) | Mourning | |||
| Sophy Roberts | The Lost Pianos of Siberia | Second selection | ||
| Sergei Lebedev with Antonina W. Bouis (trans.) | Untraceable | |||
| 2022 | Taina Tervonen | Les fossoyeuses | Winner | [23] |
| Eliane Brum with Diane Grosklaus Whitty (trans.) | The Collector of Leftover Souls: Dispatches from Brazil | Finalist | ||
| Untold Narratives | My Pen is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women | |||
| Perrine Lamy-Quique | Dans leur nuit | Second selection | ||
| Laurent Binet | Civilizations | |||
| 2023 | Karina Sainz Borgo | El Tercer País | Second selection | [24] |
| Suzanne Simard | Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest | |||
| Emanuele Trevi | Due vite | |||
| Hamid Ismaïlov with Donald Rayfield (trans.) | Manaschi | |||
| Stefan Hertmans with David McKay (trans.) | The Ascent |
Notes edit
- ^ a b "Prize for Literature, Press Release of launch" (PDF). Foundation Jan Michalski. November 2009. Retrieved November 23, 2012.
- ^ . BookTrade.info. June 5, 2010. Archived from the original on March 8, 2012. Retrieved November 23, 2012.
- ^ "Maison de l'Ecriture". Foundation Jan Michalski. Retrieved November 23, 2012.
- ^ "Jan Michalski Foundation, background". Foundation Jan Michalski. Retrieved November 23, 2012.
- ^ Domhnall O'Sullivan (August 26, 2017). "Treehouses of language: inside a Swiss literature foundation". swissinfo.ch. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
- ^ "2010". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
- ^ "2011". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
- ^ "2012". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
- ^ Sal Robinson (November 14, 2013). "Mahmoud Dowlatabadi wins the 2013 Jan Michalski Prize". Melville House Publishing. Retrieved November 13, 2013.
- ^ "2013". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
- ^ "Awards: Jan Michalski Prize for Literature". Shelf Awareness. August 6, 2013. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
- ^ Brack, Joëlle (28 November 2014). "Prix Jan Michalski 2014ImprimerPartager par e-mail avec un ami". Payot Libraire (in French). Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ^ "2014". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
- ^ "2015". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
- ^ "Reading with... Georgi Gospodinov". Shelf Awareness. May 18, 2022. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
- ^ "2016". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
- ^ "2017". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
- ^ "2018". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
- ^ "2019". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
- ^ Anderson, Porter (2020-12-11). "Switzerland's 2020 Jan Michalski Prize Goes to Mia Couto". Publishing Perspectives. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
- ^ "2020". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
- ^ "2021". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
- ^ "2022". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
- ^ "Literature Prize". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
External links edit
- Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, official website
- Prize entry rules