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. Created by the municipal council of

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, in 1972, it was awarded until 1994; the recipient was a work which evoked that of

Marcel Proust Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (; ; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental novel ''In Search of Lost Time'' (''À la recherche du temps perdu''; with the previous Eng ...

. Writers were awarded 5,000

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for their work.

List of winners

* 1972:

Michel Robida Michel Robida (29 June 1909, Paris – 8 May 1991) was a 20th-century French journalist and writer. Michel Robida was laureate of the Prix Femina in 1946 as well as thPrix Narcisse Michautof the Académie française en 1946 and thPrix Louis-Paul M ...

for ''Le Dragon de Chartres'' (Julliard) * 1973: Georges Cattaui for ''Proust et ses métamorphoses'' (Nizet) * 1974:

Julien Green Julien Green (September 6, 1900 – August 13, 1998) was an American writer who authored several novels (''The Dark Journey'', ''The Closed Garden'', ''Moira'', ''Each Man in His Darkness'', the ''Dixie'' trilogy, etc.), a four-volume autobiog ...

for ''Jeunesse'' (Plon) * 1975:

Emmanuel Berl Emmanuel Berl (2 August 1892 – 21 September 1976) was a French journalist, historian and essayist. He was born at Le Vésinet in the modern ''Departments of France, département'' of Yvelines, and is buried in the Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris. In ...

for ''A venir et Regain au pays d'Auge'' (Le Livre de Poche) * 1976: Marcel Schneider for ''Sur une étoile'' (Grasset) * 1977:

Jacques de Lacretelle Jacques de Lacretelle (14 July 1888 in Cormatin, Saône-et-Loire – 2 January 1985) was a French novelist. He was elected to the Académie Française on 12 November 1936. Bibliography * 1920 ''La vie inquiète de Jean Hermelin'' (Grasset) * ...

for ''Les Vivants et leur ombre'' (Grasset) * 1978:

Roger Caillois Roger Caillois (; 3 March 1913 – 21 December 1978) was a French intellectual whose idiosyncratic work brought together literary criticism, sociology, ludology and philosophy by focusing on diverse subjects such as games and play as well as the ...

for ''Le Fleuve Alphée'' (Gallimard) * 1979:

Henri Bonnet Henri Bonnet (26 May 1888 Châteauponsac ( Haute-Vienne) – 25 October 1978 Paris) was a French politician, diplomat, and French ambassador to the United States from 1944 to 1954. The son of J. Th. and Marie Thérèse (Lascoux) Bonnet; he was ...

for ''Le Progrès spirituel dans la Recherche'' (Nizet) * 1980:

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 ''Les Choses simples'' (Gallimard) * 1981:

Angelo Rinaldi Angelo Rinaldi (born 17 June 1940) is a French writer and literary critic. Biography Rinaldi is the son of Pierre-François Rinaldi and Antoinette Pietri; after growing up in Corsica he became a journalist. He initially worked as a reporter a ...

for ''La Dernière fête de l'Empire'' (Gallimard) * 1982:

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 Sorbonne ...

for ''L'Enfant que tu étais'' (Grasset) * 1983:

Jean Delay Jean Delay (14 November 1907, Bayonne – 29 May 1987, Paris) was a French psychiatrist, neurologist, writer, and a member of the Académie française (Chair 17). His assistant Pierre Deniker conducted a test of chlorpromazine on the male mental ...

for ''La Fauconnier, Avant-Mémoire'' (Gallimard) * 1984: Robert de Saint-Jean for ''Passé pas mort'' (Grasset) * 1985:

Diane de Margerie Diane Jacquin de Margerie (born 24 December 1927) is a French woman of letters and translator from English. Biography Diane de Margerie is the daughter of Jenny Fabre-Luce (1896–1991) and Roland de Margerie (1899–1990). Her father was the n ...

for ''Le Ressouvenir'' (Flammarion) * 1986:

François-Olivier Rousseau François-Olivier Rousseau (born 20 September 1947, Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French journalist and writer. Biography A young literary critic at ''Le Matin de Paris'' at the end of the 1970s, he became a novelist, met with success immediately ...

for ''Sébastien Doré'' (Mercure de France) * 1987-1988 :

Claude Mauriac Claude Mauriac (25 April 1914 – 22 March 1996) was a French author and journalist. He was born in Paris, the eldest son of the author François Mauriac. Mauriac was the personal secretary of Charles de Gaulle from 1944 to 1949, before becoming a ...

for ''Le Temps immobile'' (Grasset) * 1993:

René de Obaldia René de Obaldia (22 October 1918 – 27 January 2022) was a French playwright and poet. He was elected to the Académie française on 24 June 1999. Biography He was the great-grandson of José Domingo de Obaldía, the second President of Panam ...

for ''Exobiographie'' * 1994: Jean Chalon for ''Liane de Pougy, courtisane princesse et sainte'' (Flammarion)

References

*Roger Peyrefitte (''L'Illustre Écrivain'', Albin Michel, 1982, pp. 130–131). French literary awards Awards established in 1972 Awards disestablished in 1994 Marcel Proust 1972 establishments in France 1994 disestablishments in France {{lit-award-stub