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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

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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?

Notes

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  1. ^ a b "Prize for Literature, Press Release of launch" (PDF). Foundation Jan Michalski. November 2009. Retrieved November 23, 2012.
  2. ^ "Jan Michalski Prize for Literature". BookTrade.info. June 5, 2010. Archived from the original on March 8, 2012. Retrieved November 23, 2012.
  3. ^ "Maison de l'Ecriture". Foundation Jan Michalski. Retrieved November 23, 2012.
  4. ^ "Jan Michalski Foundation, background". Foundation Jan Michalski. Retrieved November 23, 2012.
  5. ^ Domhnall O'Sullivan (August 26, 2017). "Treehouses of language: inside a Swiss literature foundation". swissinfo.ch. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
  6. ^ "2010". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  7. ^ "2011". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  8. ^ "2012". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ "2013". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  11. ^ "Awards: Jan Michalski Prize for Literature". Shelf Awareness. August 6, 2013. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  12. ^ Brack, Joëlle (28 November 2014). "Prix Jan Michalski 2014ImprimerPartager par e-mail avec un ami". Payot Libraire (in French). Retrieved 2022-10-02.
  13. ^ "2014". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  14. ^ "2015". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  15. ^ "Reading with... Georgi Gospodinov". Shelf Awareness. May 18, 2022. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  16. ^ "2016". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  17. ^ "2017". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  18. ^ "2018". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  19. ^ "2019". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  20. ^ Anderson, Porter (2020-12-11). "Switzerland's 2020 Jan Michalski Prize Goes to Mia Couto". Publishing Perspectives. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  21. ^ "2020". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  22. ^ "2021". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  23. ^ "2022". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
  24. ^ "Literature Prize". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
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