Prix Médicis

The Prix Médicis is a French literary prize. It was founded in 1958 by Gala Barbisan and Jean-Pierre Giraudoux to honor French-language novels or stories of young promising and original authors. Since 1970, a prize for foreign-language novels since 1985 and is awarded a prize for essays.

By the year 2007, the Prix Médicis were on the first Wednesday of the month of November in Paris, Hôtel de Crillon - awarded since 2008 the ceremony usually two days later at the Hôtel Lutetia place - on the same day as the Prix Femina.

Carrier of the Prix Médicis

Carrier of the Prix Médicis étranger

Carrier of the Prix Médicis essai (selection)

  • 2012: David Van Reybrouck (Belgium, flämischsprechend ), Congo: A History.
  • 2013: Svetlana Alexievich ( Belarus ), La fin de l' homme rouge
Literary award Philippe Sollers Elie Wiesel Dominique Fernandez Henri Thomas Colette Audry Monique Wittig Marie-Claire Blais Claude Simon Georges Perec Life A User's Manual Christiane Rochefort Jean Rolin Jean-Philippe Toussaint Sorj Chalandon Luigi Malerba James Dickey Severo Sarduy Milan Kundera Doris Lessing Alejo Carpentier Umberto Eco Kenneth White Elsa Morante Joseph Heller John Hawkes (novelist) Antonio Tabucchi Thomas Bernhard Old Masters (novel) Amitav Ghosh Louis Begley Paul Auster Alessandro Baricco Lyudmila Ulitskaya The Tortilla Curtain Jonathan Coe Michael Ondaatje Antonio Skármeta Enrique Vila-Matas Aharon Appelfeld Orhan Pamuk Snow (Pamuk novel) Norman Manea Daniel Mendelsohn Alain Claude Sulzer Dave Eggers David Vann (writer)
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