The grand prix catholique de littérature is a French
literary prize
A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded Literature, literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author.
Organizations
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awarded by the Association des écrivains catholiques de langue française (established in 1886).
History
Established in 1945 (prix du Renouveau français) under the impulse of Catholic writers including
Jacques Maritain
Jacques Maritain (; 18 November 1882 – 28 April 1973) was a French Catholic philosopher. Raised Protestant, he was agnostic before converting to Catholicism in 1906. An author of more than 60 books, he helped to revive Thomas Aquinas fo ...
and , it is also called, by abuse of language, "grand prix des écrivains catholiques". Usually awarded in spring, its amount is variable. After three years of interruption, it has been awarded again since 2000.
The grand prix catholique de littérature, awarded by a jury composed of writers, should not be confused with the , which is awarded by religious booksellers.
List of laureates
* 1951: Claude Longhy for ''La Mesure du monde''
* 1952:
Georges Bordonove
Georges Bordonove (25 May 1920, Enghien-les-Bains, Seine-et-Oise – 16 March 2007, Antony, Hauts-de-Seine) was a French biographer and novelist.
Biography
Bordonove was a prolific writer of both books on history for a general readership an ...
for ''La Caste''
* 1953: Gilbert Tournier for ''Rhône, dieu conquis''
* 1954:
Camille Bourniquel
Camille Bourniquel (7 March 1918 – 1 April 2013) was a French poet, novelist and painter.
Life
Born in Paris, Bourniquel became friends with the poets and painters of his generation, François Baron-Renouard, Bazaine, Bertholle, Elvire J ...
for ''Retour à Cirgue''
* 1955: Paul-André Lesort for ''Le vent souffle où il veut''
* 1956:
Yvonne Chauffin
Yvonne Chauffin (26 March 1905, Lille – 6 December 1995, Caudan) was a 20th-century French writer. A catholic, she wrote as a critic for ''Le Pèlerin''. She received the Prix Breizh in 1970.
Work
*1952: ''Marqués sur l'épaule'', Amiot Dumon ...
for ''Les Rambourt'' and Louise Bugeaud for ''La Barre aux faucons''
* 1957: Jean-Claude Renard for ''Père, voici que l'homme''
* 1958:
Franz Weyergans Désiré Marcel Weyergans, called Franz Weyergans (27 April 1912 – 8 February 1974) was a Belgian writer and translator of French language.
Life
Born in Ougrée, he is the father of writer François Weyergans.
He was awarded the Grand prix ca ...
for ''Les Gens heureux''
* 1959:
Maurice Zermatten
Maurice Zermatten (22 October 1910, in Saint-Martin, Valais – 11 February 2001, in Sion) was a French-speaking Swiss writer.
He was born in Saint-Martin, Valais, a small village situated in the Val d'Hérens, in the canton of Valais. He was fir ...
for all is work
* 1960:
Jean Pélégri
Jean Pélégri (20 June 1920 – 24 September 2003) was a writer and professor of literature. Of French descent, he was born in Algeria, but left as part of the diaspora of French colonists referred to as pied-noirs following the Algerian War.
H ...
Claude Tresmontant
Claude Tresmontant (5 August 1925 – 16 April 1997) was a French philosopher, Hellenist, and theologian.
Biography
Claude Tresmontant taught medieval philosophy and philosophy of science at the Sorbonne. He was a member of the Academy of ...
for all his work
* 1963: Jean Montaurier for ''Comme à travers le feu''
* 1964:
Jean Sulivan
Jean Sulivan, pseudonym of Joseph Lemarchand, was a French priest and writer (born 30 October 1913 in Montauban (now Montauban-de-Bretagne), in Ille-et-Vilaine; died 16 February 1980 in Boulogne-Billancourt ( Hauts-de-Seine)).
Works Late 1950s ...
for ''Mais il y a la mer''
* 1965: Miklós Bátori for ''Le Vignoble des saints''
* 1966: Yves-Marie Rudel for all his work
* 1967: Renée Massip for ''Le Rire de Sara''
* 1968:
Henri de Lubac
Henri-Marie Joseph Sonier de Lubac (; 20 February 1896 – 4 September 1991), better known as Henri de Lubac, was a French Jesuit priest and cardinal who is considered one of the most influential theologians of the 20th century. His writin ...
for ''Images de l'abbé Monchanin'' and all his work
* 1969:
André Frossard
André Frossard (14 January 1915 – 2 February 1995) was a French journalist and essayist.
Early life
André Frossard was born on 14 January 1915 in Saint-Maurice-Colombier, Doubs, France. His father, Louis-Oscar Frossardan, was one of ...
for ''Dieu existe, je l'ai rencontré''
* 1970: P.
Jacques Loew
Ancient and noble French family names, Jacques, Jacq, or James are believed to originate from the Middle Ages in the historic northwest Brittany region in France, and have since spread around the world over the centuries. To date, there are over ...
for all his work and Jean Rivière for ''La Vie simple''
* 1971:
Patrice de La Tour du Pin
Patrice de La Tour du Pin (16 March 1911, Paris – 28 October 1975, ibid) was a French writer and poet. He was the winner of the Grand prix catholique de littérature in 1971 for ''Une Lutte pour la vie''.François Varillon for ''L’Humilité de Dieu''
* 1975:
Valentin-Yves Mudimbe
Valentin-Yves Mudimbe (born 8 December 1941, Jadotville, Belgian Congo) is a Congolese philosopher, professor, and author of poems, novels, as well as books and articles on African culture and intellectual history. Mudimbe is Ruth F. DeVarney Pro ...
for ''Entre les eaux''
* 1976:
Jacques de Bourbon Busset
Jacques de Bourbon, Count de Busset (27 April 1912, Paris – 7 May 2001, Paris) was a French novelist, essayist and politician. He was elected to the Académie française on 4 June 1981. He was a senior member of the House of Bourbon-Busset.
Bi ...
for ''Au vent de la mémoire'' (Journal VI)
* 1977:
Jean Delumeau
Jean Léon Marie Delumeau (18 June 1923 – 13 January 2020) was a French historian specializing in the history of the Catholic Church, and author of several books regarding the subject. He held the Chair of the History of Religious Mentalities ( ...
for ''Le christianisme va-t-il mourir ?''
* 1978:
Maurice Schumann
Maurice Schumann (; 10 April 1911 – 9 February 1998) was a French politician, journalist, writer, and hero of the Second World War who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under Georges Pompidou from 22 June 1969 to 15 March 1973. Schumann w ...
for ''Angoisse et Certitude''
* 1980: P. Jean-Robert Armogathe for ''Paul, ou l’impossible unité''
* 1981: Jean Mialet for ''Le Déporté (la haine et le pardon)''
* 1982: Jean Séverin for ''Une vie peuplée d'enfants''
* 1983: Père Bernard Bro for all his work
* 1984:
Pierre Pierrard
Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...
for ''L'Église et les ouvriers''
* 1985: Christian Chabanis for ''Dieu existe-t-il ? oui''
* 1986:
Jeanne Bourin
Jeanne Bourin or Jeanne Mondot (13 January 1922 – 19 March 2003) was a French writer known for her historical novels.
Life
Jeanne Mondot was born in Paris in 1922. She married the writer André Bourin in 1942. Catholic returned to the faith of ...
for ''Le Grand Feu''
* 1987:
Jean Daujat
Jean Daujat (Paris, 27 October 1906 – 31 May 1998) was a French philosopher of neo-Thomism, a disciple of Jacques Maritain, and the founder of the Centre d'études religieuses, the Center for Religious Studies, specializing in teaching Chris ...
for all his work
* 1988: Jean Charbonnel for ''Edmond Michelet''
* 1989:
Jacques Loew
Ancient and noble French family names, Jacques, Jacq, or James are believed to originate from the Middle Ages in the historic northwest Brittany region in France, and have since spread around the world over the centuries. To date, there are over ...
* 1990: Monique Piettre
* 1991: Jacques Sommet for ''Passion des hommes et pardon de Dieu''
* 1992: Pierre de Calan for ''On retrouve Dieu partout''
* 1993:
Christian Bobin
Christian Bobin (24 April 1951 – 24 November 2022) was a French author and poet.
Bobin received the 1993 Prix des Deux Magots for the book ''Le Très-Bas'' (translated into English in 1997 by Michael Kohn and published under two titles: ''Th ...
for ''Le Très-Bas''
* 1994:
Olivier Germain-Thomas
Olivier is the French form of the given name Oliver. It may refer to:
* Olivier (given name), a list of people and fictional characters
* Olivier (surname), a list of people
* Château Olivier, a Bordeaux winery
*Olivier, Louisiana, a rural popul ...
for ''Bouddha, terre ouverte''
* 1995: Xavier Emmanuelli for ''Dernier avis avant la fin du monde''
* 1996: Jean-Luc Barré for ''Algérie, l'espoir fraternel''
* 2000: P.
Bertrand de Margerie
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Places
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for ''Le Mystère des indulgences''
* 2001: Anne Bernet for ''Histoire générale de la chouannerie''
* 2002: Mgr Mansour Labaky for ''Kfar Sama ou les enfants de l'aurore''
* 2003: André Courtaigne for ''La Mère du printemps'' and Bernard Quilliet for ''La Tradition humaniste''
* 2004: Jean Sévillia for ''Historiquement correct : Pour en finir avec le passé unique'' and Yves Viollier for ''L’Orgueil de la tribu''
* 2005:
Jean Dutourd
Jean Gwenaël Dutourd (; 14 January 192017 January 2011) was a French novelist.
Biography
Dutourd was born in Paris. His mother died when he was seven years old. At the age of twenty, he was taken prisoner fifteen days after Germany's invasion ...
for ''Journal intime d'un mort''
* 2006: Fabrice Hadjadj for ''Réussir sa mort. Anti-méthode pour vivre''
* 2007:
Charles Le Quintrec
Charles Le Quintrec (14 March 1926 – 14 November 2008) was a French poet. He was born in Plescop and died in Lorient in Brittany.
Le Quintrec was a literary critic for ''Ouest-France ''.
Awards
* Chevalier des Arts et Lettres
* Officer of th ...
for all his work. Mention to father Servais Pinckaers for ''Plaidoyer pour la vertu'' and Dorian Malovic for ''Le Pape jaune''
* 2008:
Philippe Sellier
Philippe Sellier (born 8 November 1931) is a French literary critic and scholar. He is a specialist in the great writers who revolved around Port-Royal-des-Champs: Pascal, Racine, Antoine Arnauld, Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy, La Rochefoucauld ...
for ''La Bible expliquée à ceux qui ne l’ont pas encore lue''
* 2009: Claude-Henri Rocquet for ''Goya'' and Dominique Ponnau for all his work
* 2010: Claire Daudin for ''Le Sourire''
* 2011: Alain Besançon for ''Cinq personnages en quête d'amour''. Mention to Christophe Carichon for ''Agnès de Nanteuil 1922-1944 une vie offerte'' and Nadine Cretin for ''Histoire du Père Noël''
* 2012:
Eugène Green
Eugène Green (born 28 June 1947) is a U.S.-born French film-maker and dramatist. He is notable as an educator, training a generation of young actors in the revival of French baroque theatre technique and declamation.
Films
* 2001 : ''Toutes ...
for ''La Communauté universelle''. Mention to Anne-Dauphine Julliand for ' and Alain Galliari for ''Franz Liszt et l'espérance du bon larron''
* 2013: Didier Rance for ''
John Bradburne
John Randal Bradburne, OFS (14 June 1921 – 5 September 1979) was an English lay member of the Third Order of Saint Francis, a poet, and warden of the Mutemwa leper colony at Mutoko, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Bradburne was murdered by ZANLA t ...
, le vagabond de Dieu''. Mention to Jean-Paul Mongin for ''Denys l'Aréopagite et le nom de Dieu''.
* 2014: François Taillandier for ''L'Écriture du monde''. Mention to Véronique Dufief for ''La Souffrance désarmée'' and father Michaël Brétéché for ''L'Enfance retrouvée''
* 2015: Isabelle Laurent for ''Les Deux Couronnes''. Mention to Denis Moreau for ''Pour la vie'' and Christophe Ferré for ''Vierge d'amour''
* 2016: Marie-Joëlle Guillaume for ''Vincent de Paul.'' Mention to Jehanne Nguyen for ''Violette'' and Patrice de Plunkett for ''La révolution du pape François.''Grand Prix catholique de Littérature 2016 /ref>
* 2017: François Cassingena-Trévedy
Laureates of the Prix du renouveau français
* 1946: Claude Franchet for '' Les Trois Demoiselles de Colas''
* 1947: Élisabeth Barbier for ''Les Gens de Mogador''
* 1948:
Raïssa Maritain
Raïssa Maritain (née Oumansoff) (12 September 1883 in Rostov-on-Don – 4 November 1960 in Paris) was a Russian poet and philosopher.
She immigrated to France and studied at the Sorbonne, where she met the young Jacques Maritain, also a ph ...
for ''Les Grandes Amitiés''
* 1949: Henri Queffélec for ''Au bout du monde''
* 1950:
Pierre-Henri Simon
Pierre-Henri Simon (16 January 1903, Saint-Fort-sur-Gironde – 20 September 1972) was a French intellectual, literary historian, essayist, novelist, poet, and literary critic. He won the Prix Ève Delacroix in 1963
Works
Essays
* Destins d ...