The grand prix de poésie de la SGDL is a French literary award created by the

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in 1983 in order to reward an author for the whole of his work. This award is given to the winner during the spring session of the company. It is endowed with a sum of 500 €.

List of laureates

*1983: Bernard Noel *1984: Géo Norge *1985: Rouben Mélik (autumn 84) *1986: Edmond Humeau (autumn 85) *1987: Claude Vigee *1988:

Jacques Reda 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 ...

*1989:

André Frénaud André — sometimes transliterated as Andre — is the French and Portuguese form of the name Andrew, and is now also used in the English-speaking world. It used in France, Quebec, Canada and other French-speaking countries. It is a variation o ...

*1990:

Andrée Chedid Andrée Chedid ( ar, أندريه شديد) (20 March 1920 – 6 February 2011), born Andrée Saab Khoury, was an Egyptian- French poet and novelist of Syrian/Lebanese descent. She is the recipient of numerous literar ...

*1991: Jean-Claude Renard *1992:

Pierre Oster Pierre Oster (6 March 1933 – 22 October 2020) was a French poet and editor born into a Luxembourgish family. After his marriage to Angella Soussoueva in 1971, he often credited his wife in addition to himself on his works. Biography Oster stu ...

*1993:

Vénus Khoury-Ghata Vénus Khoury-Ghata (born 1937 in Bsharri, Lebanon) is a French-Lebanese poet and writer. Early life Venus Khoury-Ghata was born into a Maronite family, the daughter of a soldier that spoke French and a mother that was a peasant. She is the old ...

*1994:

Marc Alyn Marc Alyn (Alain-Marc Fécherolle), (born 18 March 1937 in Reims) is a French poet. Life He was mobilized to Algeria in 1957. He lived far from Paris, a farmhouse in Uzès, Gard. He traveled in the Middle East to the ruins of the Phoenician cit ...

*1995: Jean-Clarence Lambert *1996:

Alain Bosquet Alain Bosquet, born Anatoliy Bisk (russian: Анато́лий Биск) (28 March 1919 – 17 March 1998), was a French poet. Life In 1925, his family moved to Brussels and he studied at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, then at the Sorbonn ...

*1997: Claude Esteban *1998:

Philippe Jaccottet Philippe Jaccottet (; 30 June 1925 – 24 February 2021) was a Swiss Francophone poet and translator. Life and work After completing his studies in Lausanne, he lived for several years in Paris. In 1953, he moved to the town of Grignan in ...

*1999:

Guy Goffette Guy Gofete (born 18 April 1947) is a Belgian-born poet and writer. Gofete published his first book of poems in 1969. Since then he has worked as an editor at the publishing company Gallimard. Gofete's poetry has been compared to Verlaine (of wh ...

and

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*2000:

Michel Deguy Michel Deguy (23 May 1930 – 16 February 2022) was a French poet and translator. Biography Deguy was born in Paris on 23 May 1930. He taught French literature at the Universite de Paris VIII (Saint-Denis) for many years. He also served as dir ...

*2001: Lionel Ray *2002:

Richard Rognet Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong ...

*2003:

Frédéric Jacques Temple Frédéric Jacques Temple (18 August 1921 – 5 August 2020) was a French poet and writer. His work includes poems (collected in 1989 in a "Personal Anthology"), novels, travel stories and essays. He also realised translations of English, Thomas ...

*2004:

Werner Lambersy Werner Lambersy (16 November 1941 – 18 October 2021) was a Belgian poet. Biography Lambersy was born in Antwerp to a Jewish mother and Flemish father. During World War II, his father was involved with the ''Schutzstaffel'' and went to prison a ...

*2005: Franck André Jamme *2006: William Cliff *2007:

Jean Metellus Jean Metellus (30 April 1937 - 4 January 2014) was a Haitian neurologist, poet, novelist and playwright. Life and career Jean Metellus was born in Jacmel, Haiti. After completing his education in Haiti, he worked as a teacher. In 1959 he moved ...

*2008: Abdelkebir Khatibi, ''Poésie de l'aimance'' (La Différence) *2009: Jean Orizet, ''Le Regard et l'énigme'', œuvre poétique 1958-2008 (Le Cherche-Midi) *2010: Philippe Delaveau, ''Le Veilleur amoureux'', (Gallimard) *2011: Max Pons, ''Vers le silence'' (La Barbacane) *2012:

Charles Dobzynski Charles Dobzynski (born 1929 Warsaw - 26 September 2014) was a French poet, journalist and translator. Life His family emigrated to France, where he was barely a year old. He narrowly escaped deportation during World War II. he published his firs ...

, ''La Mort à vif'' (L'Amourier), ''Je est un juif, roman'' (Orizons) *2013: Patrick Laupin, ''Œuvres poétiques'', 2 volumes (Éditions La Rumeur libre) *2014: Robert Nedelec, ''Quatre-vingts entames en nu'' (Éditions Jacques Brémond) *2015: Paul Farellier, ''L'Entretien devant la nuit, Poèmes 1968-2013'' (Les Hommes sans Épaules éditions) *2016:

Michel Butor Michel Butor (; 14 September 1926 – 24 August 2016) was a French poet, novelist, teacher, essayist, art critic and translator. Life and work Michel Marie François Butor was born in Mons-en-Barœul, a suburb of Lille, the third of seven childre ...

, ''Ruines d'Avenir, un livre tapisserie'' (Actes Sud/Ville d'Angers)

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Haïti – Littérature : René Depestre, Lauréat du Grand Prix SGDL 2016
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