Jan Michalski Prize
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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 CHF 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
| Year | Author | Original title | English, French or German translation | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | United StatesBosnia and Herzegovina Aleksandar Hemon | The Lazarus Project | Winner | [6] | |
| Saudi ArabiaLebanon Yousef Al-Mohaimeed | فخاخ الرائحة | Wolves of the Crescent Moon | Finalists | ||
| Australia Tim Flannery | The Weather Makers | ||||
| France Laurent Binet | HHhH | Nominee | |||
| Hungary Péter Esterházy | Harmonia cælestis | Celestial Harmonies | |||
| Austria Alois Hotschnig | Im Sitzen läuft es sich besser davon | ||||
| Ukraine Viktor Malakhov | Уязвимость любви | ||||
| France Frédéric Martinez | Claude Monet, une vie au fil de l’eau | ||||
| Switzerland Klaus Merz | Der Argentinier | ||||
| Russia Pavel Sanaev | Похороните меня за плинтусом | ||||
| 2011 | Hungary György Dragomán | A fehér király | The White King | Winner | [7] |
| Philippines Miguel Syjuco | Ilustrado | Finalists | |||
| Iceland Sjón | Skugga-Baldur | The Blue Fox | |||
| ChinaUnited States Liu Xiaobo | — | No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems | Nominee | ||
| Sweden Peter Fröberg Idling | Pol Pots leende | Pol Pot’s Smile | |||
| Russia Mark Kharitonov | Проект Одиночество | ||||
| Poland Antoni Libera | Godot i jego cień | ||||
| 2012 | United Kingdom Julia Lovell | The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China | Winner | [8] | |
| Austria Martin Pollack | Kaiser von Amerika: Die große Flucht aus Galizien | Finalists | |||
| United States Timothy Snyder | Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin | ||||
| France Philippe Cassard | Franz Schubert | Nominee | |||
| France Patrick Deville | Kampuchéa | ||||
| South Africa Mark Gevisser | Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred | ||||
| United States Donald Ray Pollock | The Devil All the Time | ||||
| Russia Maria Rybakova | Острый нож для мягкого сердца | Couteau tranchant pour un cœur tendre | |||
| France Bruno Smolarz | Hokusaï aux doigts d’encre | ||||
| 2013 | Iran Mahmoud Dowlatabadi | زوال کلنل | The Colonel | Winner | [9][10] |
| France Serge Gruzinski | L’aigle et le Dragon: Démesure européenne et mondialisation au XVIe siècle | Finalists | [11] | ||
| Sweden Steve Sem-Sandberg | De fattiga i Łódź | The Emperor of Lies | |||
| United Kingdom Robert Macfarlane | The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot | Second selection | |||
| India Uday Prakash | — | The Walls of Delhi | |||
| Poland Janusz Głowacki | Good night, Dżerzi | First selection | |||
| China Chan Koonchung | 盛世：中國，2013年 | The Fat Years | |||
| India Charu Nivedita | ஸீரோ டிகிரி | Zero Degree | |||
| France Tiphaine Samoyault | Bête de cirque | ||||
| Spain Enrique Vila-Matas | Chet Baker piensa en su arte | ||||
| United States Chris Ware | Building Stories | ||||
| 2014 | Ukraine Serhiy Zhadan | Ворошиловград | Voroshylovhrad | Winner | [12][13] |
| South Africa Mark Gevisser | Dispatcher: Lost and Found in Johannesburg | Finalists | |||
| United States Marci Shore | The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe | ||||
| United Kingdom Rana Mitter | China’s War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival | Second selection | |||
| Spain Jaume Cabré | Confiteor | Confessions | |||
| Canada Maxime Raymond Bock | Atavismes | Atavisms | First selection | ||
| France Camille de Toledo | Oublier, trahir puis disparaître | ||||
| United States Paul Harding | Enon | ||||
| United States Fanny Howe | Second Childhood | ||||
| Poland Wojciech Nowicki | Salki | ||||
| Serbia Dragan Velikić | Bonavia | ||||
| IraqGermany Najem Wali | ملائكة الجنوب | Engel des Südens | |||
| 2015 | United Kingdom Mark Thompson | Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kiš | Winner | [14] | |
| GermanyIran Navid Kermani | Zwischen Koran und Kafka: West-östliche Erkundungen | Between Quran and Kafka: West-Eastern Inquiries | Finalists | ||
| IraqGermany Najem Wali | بغداد مالبورو، من أجل برادلي مانينك | Bagdad Marlboro: Ein Roman für Bradley Manning | |||
| France Jean-Noël Orengo | La Fleur du Capital | Second selection | |||
| Israel Ari Shavit | My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel | ||||
| GermanyAustria Philipp Ther | Die neue Ordnung auf dem alten Kontinent: Eine Geschichte des neoliberalen Europa | Europe since 1989: A History | First selection | ||
| Romania Lucian Dan Teodorovici | Matei Brunul | L’histoire de Bruno Matei | |||
| France Frédéric Badré | La grande santé | ||||
| France Valentin Retz | Noir parfait | ||||
| United Kingdom Hermione Lee | Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life | ||||
| United States Lisa Jarnot | Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus: A Biography | ||||
| France Gansel Mireille | Traduire comme transhumer | Translation as Transhumance | |||
| 2016 | Bulgaria Georgi Gospodinov | Физика на тъгата | Physics of Sorrow | Winner | [15][16] |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina Dževad Karahasan | Što pepeo priča | The Solace of the Night Sky | Finalists | ||
| United KingdomUnited States Aatish Taseer | The Way Things Were | ||||
| United Kingdom Julian Barnes | Levels of Life | Second selection | |||
| GermanyIran Navid Kermani | Ungläubiges Staunen: Über das Christentum | Wonder Beyond Belief: On Christianity | |||
| United States Ada Limón | Bright Dead Things | First selection | |||
| CanadaArgentina Alberto Mangel | Curiosity | ||||
| Hungary Iván Sándor | Az éjszaka mélyén, 1914 | Husar in der Hölle, 1914 | |||
| Italy Andrea Bajani | La vita non è in ordine alfabetico | ||||
| FranceIran Fariba Hachtroudi | Le colonel et l’appât 455 | The Man Who Snapped His Fingers | |||
| Switzerland Stefan Banz | Louis Michel Eilshemius: Peer of Poet-Painters | ||||
| United Kingdom Patrick McGuinness | Poetry and Radical Politics in fin de siècle France: From Anarchism to Action française | ||||
| Spain Víctor del Árbol | Un millón de gotas | A Million Drops | |||
| Germany Ulrike Guérot | Warum Europa eine Republik werden muss! Eine politische Utopie | Why Europe Should Become a Republic! A Political Utopia | |||
| 2017 | France Thierry Wolton | Une histoire mondiale du communisme | Winner | [17] | |
| India Lawrence Liang et al. | Invisible Libraries | Finalists | |||
| ChinaGermany Liao Yiwu | 輪迴的螞蟻 | Die Wiedergeburt der Ameisen | |||
| United States Paul Kalanithi | When Breath Becomes Air | Second selection | |||
| Poland Wioletta Greg | Guguły | Swallowing Mercury | |||
| Ukraine Yuriy Vynnychuk | Танґо смерті | Tango of Death | First selection | ||
| France Eugénie Paultre | L’état actuel des choses | ||||
| ItalyCuba Alvar González-Palacios | Solo ombre: Silhouettes storiche, letterarie e mondane | ||||
| United Kingdom Peter Frankopan | The Silk Roads: A New History of the World | ||||
| 2018 | Poland Olga Tokarczuk | Księgi Jakubowe | The Books of Jacob | Winner | [18] |
| Israel Yuval Noah Harari | ההיסטוריה של המחר | Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow | Finalists | ||
| France Jean Rolin | Le traquet kurde | ||||
| Germany Norman Ohler | Der totale Rausch: Drogen im Dritten Reich | Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich | Second selection | ||
| United Kingdom Patrick McGuinness | Other People’s Countries: A Journey into Memory | ||||
| United States Maggie Nelson | The Argonauts | First selection | |||
| France Virginie Despentes | Vernon Subutex | ||||
| United KingdomHungary George Szirtes | Bad Machine | ||||
| United Kingdom Preti Taneja | We That Are Young | ||||
| 2019 | Israel Zeruya Shalev | כאב | Pain | Winner | [19] |
| Italy Francesca Melandri | Sangue giusto | Finalists | |||
| Czech RepublicFrance Patrik Ouředník | La fin du monde n’aurait pas eu lieu | The End of the World Might Not Have Taken Place | |||
| Spain Antonio Iturbe | La bibliotecaria de Auschwitz | The Librarian of Auschwitz | Second selection | ||
| France Morgan Sportès | Le ciel ne parle pas | First selection | |||
| NorwayMalaysia Long Litt Woon | Stien tilbake til livet: Om sopp og sorg | The Way Through the Woods: Of Mushrooms and Mourning | |||
| 2020 | Mozambique Mia Couto with David Brookshaw (trans.) | As Areias do Imperador | Sands of the Emperor | Winner | [20][21] |
| United States Fran Ross | Oreo | Finalists | |||
| United KingdomFrance Philippe Sands | East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity | ||||
| France Érik Orsenna | Briser en nous la mer gelée | Second selection | |||
| Belgium Bernard Quiriny | Vies conjugales | ||||
| Germany Roland Schimmelpfennig | An einem klaren, eiskalten Januarmorgen zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts | One Clear, Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century | First selection | ||
| Norway Vigdis Hjorth | Arv og miljø | Will and Testament | |||
| Poland Wojciech Nowicki | Cieśniny | ||||
| France Nastassja Martin | Croire aux fauves | In the Eye of the Wild | |||
| Ukraine Yurii Andrukhovych | Коханці юстиції | Die Lieblinge der Justiz | |||
| Portugal António Damásio | The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures | ||||
| France Catherine Meurisse | La Légèreté | Lightness | |||
| Russia Sergei Lebedev | Предел забвения | Oblivion | |||
| France Sorj Chalandon | Le jour d’avant | ||||
| United StatesVietnam Viet Thanh Nguyen | The Sympathizer | ||||
| France Ruth Zylberman | 209 rue Saint-Maur, Paris Xe: Autobiographie d’un immeuble | The Department of Missing Persons | |||
| 2021 | Russia Memorial International (Alena Kozlova, Nikolai Mikhailov, Irina Ostrovskaya, and Irina Scherbakova) with Georgia Thomson (trans.) | Знак не сотрется: Судьбы остарбайтеров в письмах, воспоминаниях и устных рассказах | OST: Letters, Memoirs and Stories from Ostarbeiter in Nazi Germany | Winner | [22] |
| United States Frank Huyler | White Hot Light: Twenty-five Years in Emergency Medicine | Finalists | |||
| Guatemala Eduardo Halfon with Lisa Dillman and Daniel Hahn (trans.) | Duelo | Mourning | |||
| United Kingdom Sophy Roberts | The Lost Pianos of Siberia | Second selection | |||
| Russia Sergei Lebedev with Antonina W. Bouis (trans.) | Дебютант | Untraceable | |||
| United States Daniel Mendelsohn | Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate | First selection | |||
| Portugal Mário Cláudio | Tríptico da Salvação | ||||
| Russia Ksenia Buksha | Открывается внутрь | ||||
| Russia Maria Stepanova | Памяти памяти | In Memory of Memory | |||
| Germany Judith Schalansky | Verzeichnis einiger Verluste | An Inventory of Losses | |||
| France Édouard Louis | Qui a tué mon père | Who Killed My Father | |||
| France Mathieu Sapin | Gérard: Cinq années dans les pattes de Depardieu | Gérard: Five Years with Depardieu | |||
| France Lisa Mandel | Une année exemplaire | ||||
| France Patrice Jean | L’homme surnuméraire | ||||
| France Claude Hunzinger | Les grands cerfs | ||||
| Mexico Carmen Boullosa | El libro de Ana | The Book of Anna | |||
| 2022 | FinlandFrance Taina Tervonen | Les fossoyeuses | Winner | [23] | |
| Brazil Eliane Brum with Diane Grosklaus Whitty (trans.) | A vida que ninguém vê | The Collector of Leftover Souls: Dispatches from Brazil | Finalists | ||
| AfghanistanUnited Kingdom Untold Narratives | — | My Pen is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women | |||
| France Perrine Lamy-Quique | Dans leur nuit | Second selection | |||
| France Laurent Binet | Civilizations | ||||
| MauritiusFrance Nathacha Appanah | Le ciel par-dessus le toit | The Sky Above the Roof | First selection | ||
| United Kingdom M. John Harrison | The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again | ||||
| Bulgaria Georgi Gospodinov | Времеубежище | Time Shelter | |||
| United Kingdom Cat Jarman | River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads | ||||
| France Tanguy Viel | La fille qu’on appelle | The Girl You Call | |||
| France Stéphanie Coste | Le passeur | ||||
| 2023 | VenezuelaSpain Karina Sainz Borgo | El Tercer País | Winner | [24] | |
| Canada Suzanne Simard | Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest | Finalists | |||
| UzbekistanUnited Kingdom Hamid Ismailov with Donald Rayfield (trans.) | Manaschi | ||||
| Italy Emanuele Trevi | Due vite | Second selection | |||
| Belgium Stefan Hertmans with David McKay (trans.) | De opgang | The Ascent | |||
| France Hélène Frappat | Trois femmes disparaissent | First selection | |||
| France Michel Houellebecq | Anéantir | Annihilation | |||
| Spain Eva Baltasar | Boulder | ||||
| United StatesRussia Anna Badkhen | Bright Unbearable Reality | ||||
| Spain Agustín Fernández Mallo | El libro de todos los amores | The Book of All Loves | |||
| Sweden Sara Stridsberg | Kärlekens Antarktis | The Antarctica of Love | |||
| Norway Aslak Nore | Havets kirkegård | The Sea Cemetery | |||
| Republic of Ireland Sally Hayden | My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route | ||||
| United States Sigrid Nunez | What Are You Going Through? | ||||
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Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Prize for Literature, Press Release of launch" (PDF). Foundation Jan Michalski. November 2009. Retrieved November 23, 2012.
- ↑ "Jan Michalski Prize for Literature". 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. Archived from the original on December 7, 2013. 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.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "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
- Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, official website
- Prize entry rules
