Prix Méditerranée
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The Prix Méditerranée is a French literary award. It was created in 1984 in Perpignan
by the Mediterranean Centre of Literature (CML) in order to promote cultural interaction among the numerous countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea
. Two awards are handed out every year, the Prix Méditerranée itself and the Prix Méditerranée Étranger (or the Overseas Mediterranean Prize). The latter is given to a writer from the Mediterranean basin whose original work has been translated into French.
Perpignan
-Sport:Perpignan is a rugby stronghold: their rugby union side, USA Perpignan, is a regular competitor in the Heineken Cup and seven times champion of the Top 14 , while their rugby league side plays in the engage Super League under the name Catalans Dragons.-Culture:Since 2004, every year in the...
by the Mediterranean Centre of Literature (CML) in order to promote cultural interaction among the numerous countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea
Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Anatolia and Europe, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant...
. Two awards are handed out every year, the Prix Méditerranée itself and the Prix Méditerranée Étranger (or the Overseas Mediterranean Prize). The latter is given to a writer from the Mediterranean basin whose original work has been translated into French.
Prix Méditerranée
- 2010 - Dominique BaudisDominique BaudisDominique Baudis is the French ombudsman. Formerly a journalist, politician and Mayor of Toulouse, he had been a member of DL and later of the leading centre-right Union for a Popular Movement....
, Les Amants de Gibraltar (Grasset) - 2009 - Alexandre NajjarAlexandre NajjarAlexandre Najjar is an award-winning Lebanese novelist and literary critic. He was born in Beirut and went to university in Paris. A trained lawyer, he specialized in banking and finance law. He is the author of more than 30 books. In addition to poetry and fiction, he has written the biography of...
, Phenicia (Plon) - 2008 - Louis GardelLouis GardelLouis Gardel is a notable French novelist, screenwriter, and publisher, born in Algiers in 1939. He is also publishing director of Éditions du Seuil and a permanent member of the Prix Renaudot jury.- Bibliography :* L'Été fracassé...
, La baie d'Alger (Seuil) - 2007 - Emile BramiÉmile BramiÉmile Brami is a French writer and bookseller of Tunisian origin. He was born in Jendouba, formerly known as Souk El Arba, in Tunisia. He moved to France in 1964 and settled in Paris...
, Le manteau de la Vierge (Fayard) - 2006 - Michel del CastilloMichel del CastilloMichel del Castillo is a French writer, born in Madrid.-Biography:Michel del Castillo was born in Madrid...
, Dictionnaire amoureux de l'Espagne (Plon) - 2005 - Jean-Pierre VernantJean-Pierre VernantJean-Pierre Vernant was a French historian and anthropologist, specialist in ancient Greece. Influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Vernant developed a structuralist approach to Greek myth, tragedy, and society which would itself be influential among classical scholars...
, La Traversée des frontières (Seuil) - 2004 - Amin MaaloufAmin MaaloufAmin Maalouf , born 25 February 1949 in Beirut, is a Lebanese-born French author. Although his native language is Arabic, he writes in French, and his works have been translated into many languages. He received the Prix Goncourt in 1993 for his novel The Rock of Tanios...
, Origines (Grasset) - 2003 - François SureauFrançois SureauFrançois Sureau is a French writer, lawyer and technocrat. He was born in the 14th arrondissement of Paris and educated at the École nationale d'administration . He is a co-founder and co-director of the French Review of Economics. He is also the founding president of the Association Pierre Claver...
, Les Alexandrins (Gallimard) - 2002 - Jean-Paul MariJean-Paul MariJean-Paul Mari is an award-winning French author and journalist. He was born in 1950 in Algiers, leaving his birthplace at the age of 11. He studied psychology and worked as a physiotherapist at a hospital in Toulouse. He has since done stints as a radio host, radio reporter and print journalist...
, Il faut abattre la lune (Nil) - 2001 - Edmonde Charles-RouxEdmonde Charles-RouxEdmonde Charles-Roux is a French writer.-Origin :She is the daughter of Francois Charles-Roux, Ambassador of France, member of the Institute of France, and last president of the Suez Canal Company....
, L'Homme de Marseille (Grasset) - 2000 - Albert CosseryAlbert CosseryAlbert Cossery was an Egyptian-born French writer of Greek Orthodox Syrian and Lebanese descent, born in Cairo.- Life :...
, Les Couleurs de l'infamie (Joëlle) - 1999 - Jean DanielJean DanielJean Daniel, is an Algerian-born French-Jewish journalist and author. He is the founder and executive editor of Le Nouvel Observateur weekly.Daniel is a Jewish humanist in the venerable tradition of the French Left...
, Avec le temps (Grasset) - 1998 - Alain Nadaud, Auguste fulminant (Grasset)
- 1997 - Jean-Christophe RufinJean-Christophe RufinJean-Christophe Rufin is a French doctor and novelist. He is the president of Action Against Hunger and one of the founders of Médecins Sans Frontières. He was Ambassador of France in Senegal from 2007 to June 2010.-Early life:...
, L'Abyssin (Gallimard) - 1996 - Hector BianciottiHector BianciottiHector Bianciotti is an Argentine-born French author and member of the Académie française.-Biography:Born Héctor Bianciotti in Calchin Oeste in Córdoba Province , Bianciotti's parents were immigrants from Piedmont, who communicated among themselves in the dialect of that region but who forbade...
, Le Pas si lent de l'amour (Grasset) - 1995 - André ChouraquiAndré ChouraquiNathan André Chouraqui was a French lawyer, writer, scholar and politician.Chouraqui was born in Aïn Témouchent, Algeria...
, Moïse (Le Rocher) - 1994 - Tahar Ben JellounTahar Ben JellounTahar Ben Jelloun is a Moroccan poet and writer. The entirety of his work is written in French, although his first language is Arabic.-Life:...
, L'Homme rompu (Seuil) - 1993 - Jean Thuillier, Campo morto (José Corti)
- 1992 - Robert SoléRobert SoléRobert Solé is a French journalist and novelist of Egyptian origin. Born in Cairo in 1946, Solé moved to France at the age of 18. He has served as ombudsman of the Parisian newspaper Le Monde. His works of fiction include Le Tarbouche and La Mamelouka.-External links:* *...
, Le tarbouche (Seuil) - 1991 - Tahar DjaoutTahar DjaoutTahar Djaout was an Algerian journalist, poet, and fiction writer. He was assassinated by the Armed Islamic Group because of his support of secularism and opposition to what he considered fanaticism. He was attacked on May 26, 1993, as he was leaving his home in Bainem, Algeria. He died on June 2,...
, Les vigiles (Seuil) - 1990 - Philippe Le Guillou, La rumeur du soleil (Gallimard)
- 1989 - Jules RoyJules RoyJules Roy was a French writer. "Prolific and polemical" Roy, born an Algerian pied noir and sent to a Roman Catholic seminary, used his experiences as the French colony and during his service in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War to inspire a number of his words...
, Mémoires barbares (Albin Michel) - 1988 - Dominique FernandezDominique FernandezDominique Fernandez is an openly homosexual French novelist and member of the Académie française...
, Le radeau de la Gorgone (Grasset) - 1987 - François Fontaine, Blandine de Lyon (Julliard)
- 1986 - Chochana BoukhobzaChochana BoukhobzaChochana Boukhobza , Sfax, March 2, 1959 - ) is an Israeli writer of Tunisian-Jewish descent. She was born in Sfax, Tunisia and emigrated to Israel at the age of 17. She studied mathematics in Israel....
, Un été à Jérusalem (Balland) - 1985 - Nicolas Saudray, La maison des prophètes (Seuil)
Prix Méditerranée Étranger
- 2010 - Amos OzAmos OzAmos Oz is an Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist. He is also a professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in Be'er Sheva....
, Scéne de Vies Villageoises (Éditions Gallimard) - 2009 - Almudena GrandesAlmudena GrandesAlmudena Grandes Hernández is a Spanish writer.She studied Geography and History at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She is married to the poet Luis García Montero. In 1989 she won the La Sonrisa Vertical prize with her erotic novel Las edades de Lulú, which has been translated into several...
, Le Coeur Glacé (Lattès) - 2008 - Sandro VeronesiSandro VeronesiSandro Veronesi, born in Prato, Tuscany in 1959, is an Italian novelist, essayist, and journalist. After earning a degree in architecture at the University of Florence, he opted for a writing career in his mid to late twenties. Veronesi published his first book at the age of 25, a collection of...
, Chaos Calme (Grasset) - 2007 - Claudio MagrisClaudio MagrisClaudio Magris is an Italian scholar, translator and writer.Magris graduated from the University of Turin, where he studied German studies, and has been a professor of modern German literature at the University of Trieste since 1978.He is an essayist and columnist for the Italian newspaper...
, À l’Aveugle (Gallimard) - 2006 - Orhan PamukOrhan PamukFerit Orhan Pamuk , generally known simply as Orhan Pamuk, is a Turkish novelist. He is also the Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he teaches comparative literature and writing....
, Neige (Gallimard) - 2005 - Antonio TabucchiAntonio TabucchiAntonio Tabucchi is an Italian writer and academic who teaches Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy....
, Tristano meurt (Gallimard) - 2004 - Jaume CabreJaume CabréJaume Cabré i Fabré is a Catalan philologist, novelist and screenwriter.Graduated in Catalan Philology by the University of Barcelona, high-school professor in leave of absence and teacher to the University of Lleida, member of the Philological Section of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans.During...
, Sa Seigneurie (Christian Bourgois) - 2003 - Baltasar PorcelBaltasar PorcelBaltasar Porcel i Pujol was a balearic writer, journalist and literary critic. His enormous legacy credited him as one of the greatest authors in Catalan literature from the 20th century.-Biography:...
, Cabrera, ou l’Empereur des morts (Actes Sud) - 2002 - Umberto EcoUmberto EcoUmberto Eco Knight Grand Cross is an Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose , an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory...
, Baudolino (Grasset) - 2001 - Arturo Perez-ReverteArturo Pérez-ReverteArturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez is a Spanish novelist and journalist. He worked as a war correspondent for twenty-one years . His first novel, El húsar, set in the Napoleonic Wars, was released in 1986. He is well known outside Spain for his "Alatriste" series of novels...
, Le Cimetière des bateaux sans nom (Seuil) - 2000 - Yoram KaniukYoram KaniukYoram Kaniuk is an Israeli writer, painter, journalist, and theater critic.-Biography:Yoram Kaniuk was born in Tel Aviv. His father, Moshe Kaniuk, born in Ternopil, Galicia , was the first curator of Tel Aviv Museum of Art. His grandfather was a Hebrew teacher who wrote his own textbooks....
, Il commanda l’Exodus (Fayard) - 1999 - Pietro CitatiPietro CitatiPietro Citati is a famous Italian writer and literary critic.He has written critical biographies of Goethe, Alexander the Great, Kafka and Marcel Proust as well as a short but unforgettable memoir on his thirty-year friendship with Italo Calvino.In Kafka, Pietro Citati has the great writer...
, La Lumière de la nuit (Gallimard) - 1998 - Boutros Boutros-GhaliBoutros Boutros-GhaliBoutros Boutros-Ghali is an Egyptian politician and diplomat who was the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1992 to December 1996...
, Le Chemin de Jérusalem (Fayard) - 1997 - Besnik MustafajBesnik MustafajBesnik Bajram Mustafaj is an Albanian writer and diplomat. He became foreign minister of Albania on September 11, 2005, when the government of Prime Minister Sali Berisha took office. He resigned on April 24, 2007 and was replaced by Lulzim Basha on April 25. His resignation came after strong...
, Le Tambour de papier (Actes Sud) - 1996 - Yashar Kemal, La Voix du sang (Gallimard)
- 1995 - Adonis, Soleils Seconds (Mercure de France)
- 1994 - Juan GoytisoloJuan GoytisoloJuan Goytisolo is a Spanish poet, essayist, and novelist. He currently lives in a voluntary self-exile in Marrakech.-Background:Juan Goytisolo was born to an aristocratic family...
, Barzak (Gallimard) - 1993 - Ismail KadareIsmail KadareIsmail Kadare is an Albanian writer. He is known for his novels, although he was first noticed for his poetry collections. In the 1960s he focused on short stories until the publication of his first novel, The General of the Dead Army. In 1996 he became a lifetime member of the Academy of Moral...
, La Pyramide (Éditions Fayard) - 1992 - Luis Landero, Les Jeux tardifs de l’âge mur (Éditions Gallimard)