Prix Décembre
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The Prix Décembre, originally known as the Prix Novembre, is one of France
's premier literary awards. Its winners are generally far more radical choices than the more staid and conservative Prix Goncourt
. It is the last major award of the literary year in France.
Winners:
France
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's premier literary awards. Its winners are generally far more radical choices than the more staid and conservative Prix Goncourt
Prix Goncourt
The Prix Goncourt is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year"...
. It is the last major award of the literary year in France.
Winners:
- 1989 – Guy Dupré, Les Manoeuvres d'automne
- 1990 – François MasperoFrançois MasperoFrançois Maspero ) is a French author and journalist, best known as a publisher of leftist books in the 1970s. He has also worked as a translator, translating the works of Joseph Conrad and John Reed, author of Ten Days that Shook the World, among others...
, Les Passagers du Roissy-Express - 1991 – Raphaël ConfiantRaphaël ConfiantRaphaël Confiant is a Martinican writer known for his literary commitment towards Creole literature.-Biography:Raphaël Confiant was born in 1951 in Le Lorrain, Martinique. He studied English and Political Science at the University of Aix-Marseille...
, Eau de café - 1992 – Henri ThomasHenri ThomasHenri Thomas was a French writer and poet.-Life:Henri Thomas was born in 1912 and grew up in the Alsace/Lorraine region of France. He moved to Paris to attend the prestigious Henri IV high school, working with the noted essayist Alain...
, La Chasse au trésor and Roger GrenierRoger GrenierRoger Grenier is a French writer, journalist and radio animator. He is Regent of the Collège de ’Pataphysique.- Biography :Young, he lived in Pau, where Andrélie opened a shop selling glasses....
, Regardez la neige qui tombe - 1993 – René de ObaldiaRené de ObaldiaRené de Obaldia is a French playwright and poet. He was elected to the Académie française June 24, 1999.He grew up in Paris, studying at the Lycée Condorcet before being mobilised for the army in 1940. Taken prisoner, he was sent to Stalag VIII C...
. Exobiographie - 1994 – Jean Hatzfeld, L'Air de guerre and Éric HolderEric HolderEric Himpton Holder, Jr. is the 82nd and current Attorney General of the United States and the first African American to hold the position, serving under President Barack Obama....
, La Belle Jardinière - 1995 – Jean ÉchenozJean EchenozJean Echenoz is a French writer.Son of a psychiatrist, Echenoz studied in Rodez, Digne-les-Bains, Lyon, Aix-en-Provence, Marseille and Paris, where he lives since 1970. He published his first book, Le méridien de Greenwich in 1979...
, Les Grandes Blondes - 1996 – Régis DebrayRégis DebrayJules Régis Debray is a French intellectual, journalist, government official and professor. He is known for his theorization of mediology, a critical theory of the long-term transmission of cultural meaning in human society; and for having fought in 1967 with Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara in...
, Loués soient nos seigneurs: une éducation politique - 1997 – Lydie SalvayreLydie SalvayreLydie Salvayre is a French writer. Born in the south of France to Republican refugees from the Spanish Civil War, she went on to study medicine in Toulouse and continues to work as a practicing psychiatrist....
, La Compagnie des spectres - 1998 – Michel HouellebecqMichel HouellebecqMichel Houellebecq , born Michel Thomas, 26 February 1958—or 1956 —on the French island of Réunion, is a controversial and award-winning French author, filmmaker and poet. To admirers he is a writer in the tradition of literary provocation that reaches back to the Marquis de Sade and Baudelaire;...
, Les Particules élémentaires - 1999 – Claude Askolovitch, Voyage au bout de la France: Le Front National tel qu'il est
- 2000 – Anthony Palou, Camille
- 2001 – Chloé DelaumeChloé DelaumeChloé Delaume is a French award-winning novelist, performer, musician, and occasional singer.-Biography:Born Nathalie Dalain in Paris, 1973, Chloé Delaume spent her childhood in Beirut. In 1983 a tragic episode both changed the course of her life and marked her body of work: at ten years old, she...
, Le Cri du sablier - 2002 – Pierre MichonPierre MichonPierre Michon is a French writer. His first novel, Small lives , is widely regarded as a masterpiece in contemporary French literature. He won several prizes for Small lives, The Origin of the World and his body of work...
, Abbés and Corps du Roi - 2003 – Régis JauffretRégis JauffretRégis Jauffret is a French writer and winner of the Prix Femina, 2005, for Asiles de fous.-Works:*Seule au milieu d'elle: roman, Denoël, 1985, ISBN 9782207231463*Les gouttes: pièce en un acte, Denoël, 1985, ISBN 9782207231937...
, Univers, univers - 2004 – Philippe ForestPhilippe ForestPhilippe Forest is a French author and professor of literature. He has been awarded the First Novel Prix Femina and the Prix Décembre , and his works have been translated into English, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese...
, Sarinagara - 2005 – Charles DantzigCharles Dantzig- Early life and career :Charles Dantzig was born into a family of professors of medicine. He obtained the baccalauréate at the age of seventeen, but rather than following the family tradition or taking up his place to prepare the entrance exams for the Ecole Normale Supérieure, he decided to study...
, Dictionnaire égoïste de la littérature française - 2006 – Pierre GuyotatPierre GuyotatPierre Guyotat is a French writer. He was born on January 9, 1940 at Bourg-Argental, Loire.- Biography :In 1960, Guyotat wrote his first novel, Sur un cheval. He was called to Algeria in the same year. In 1962 he was found guilty of desertion and publishing forbidden material. After three months...
, Coma - 2007 – Yannick Haenel, Cercle
- 2008 – Mathias Enard, Zone
- 2009 – Jean-Philippe ToussaintJean-Philippe ToussaintJean-Philippe Toussaint is a Belgian prose writer and filmmaker. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages and he has had his photographs displayed in Brussels and Japan. Toussaint won the Prix Médicis in 2005 for his novel Fuir...
, La Vérité sur Marie - 2010 – Frédéric Schiffter, Philosophie sentimentale
- 2011 - Jean-Christophe Bailly, Le Dépaysement. Voyages en France & Olivier Frébourg, Gaston et Gustave