- Mallarmé prize
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The Mallarmé prize (Prix de poésie de l’Académie Mallarmé, in French) is a poetry prize awarded each year by the Académie Mallarmé to a French speaking poet.
To be eligible for the prize the poet must have published a piece in the year concerned, even though the prize does not reward a specific piece of poetry but the author's work all along his career as a whole. The prize may only be won once.
The prize is awarded on the occasion of the book fair which takes place in Brive-la-Gaillarde, in the département of Corrèze, région Limousin, France. The cash prize amounts to € 3,811 (25,000 FF). Over the past three years it has been financed through sponsorship from the company ISS; previously it was sponsored by the Mairie of Brives.
Winners
This is an incomplete list of authors having won the prize:
Year Author Published work nominated 2009 Jean Max Tixier Parabole des nuées 2008 Jean Ristat Artémis chasse à courre, le sanglier, le cerf et le loup 2007 Seyhmus Dagtekin Juste un pont sans feu 2006 Michel Butor 16 lustres 2005 Hélène Dorion Ravir : les lieux 2004 Olivier Barbarant Essais de voix malgré le vent 2003 Jean Portante L'étrange langue 2002 Alain Veinstein Tout se passe comme si 2000 André Schmitz Incises, Incisions 1999 Benoît Conort Main de nuit 1998 Mohamed Dib L'Enfant-Jazz 1997 Marie Etienne 1996 Franck Venaille Descente de l'Escaut 1995 Paul-Louis Rossi Faïences 1992 Jacques Chessex Les aveugles du seul regard 1990 André Velter L'Arbre-seul 1989 Guy Goffette Eloge pour une cuisine de province 1988 Jean Pérol Asile exil 1987 Venus Khoury-Ghata Monologue du mort 1986 Henri Meschonnic Voyageurs de la voix 1984 Claude Esteban Conjoncture du corps et du jardin 1981 Lionel Ray Le corps obscur 1980 Yves de Bayser 1979 Jacques Izoard Vêtu, dévêtu, libre 1978 Jean Joubert Les Poèmes - 1955-1975 1976 Andrée Chédid Fraternité de la parole et Cérémonial de la violence 1939 Jean Follain Académie Mallarmé
The Académie Mallarmé (Mallarmé Academy) was founded in 1937. It is a French not-for-profit association (known in French as an association loi de 1901, a "1901 law association"), founded in commemoration of Stéphane Mallarmé, by people who knew him.
Its main objective is the promotion of poetry, and for a long time it was presided over by Guillevic and Alain Bosquet. It consists of thirty French or French-speaking members and 15 foreign correspondents. Notable members of the Académie include Jean Orizet, Marie-Claire Bancquart, Lionel Ray, Claude-Michel Cluny, François Montmaneix, Robert Sabatier, Jean Rousselot, Michel Deguy, Charles Dobzinski, Philippe Jones, Jean-Michel Maulpoix, Henri Meschonnic, Pierre Oster, Vénus Khoury-Ghata; and the foreign correspondents are Ismaël Kadaré, Seamus Heaney and Andrei Vossnessenski.
The Academy seeks to promote poetry and organises poetry readings as well as the annual award of the Mallarmé prize. The Academy also seeks to promote the work of Stéphane Mallarmé, which is now in the public domain (since he died more than a hundred years ago).
External links
- This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the French Wikipedia.
Categories:- French literary awards
- Poetry awards
- Awards established in 1939
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