The Prix du Premier Roman (''

First Novel A debut novel is the first novel a novelist publishes. Debut novels are often the author's first opportunity to make an impact on the publishing industry, and thus the success or failure of a debut novel can affect the ability of the author to pu ...

Prize'') is a French literary prize awarded to an unpublished novelist between the ages of 18 and 30. The monetary reward is 3,000 Euros. The prize was first awarded in 1977. Starting with 1998 a separate award is given to the best first novel by a foreign writer. The jury is made out of literary critics and the current president of the jury is the French historian and critic Joël Schmidt.

Winners of Prix du Premier Roman

*1977: Michel Arrivé, '' Les remembrances du vieillard idiot'', (

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) *1978: *1979: Marco Koskas, '' Balace Bounel'' *1980:

Dan Franck Dan Franck (born 17 October 1952 in Paris) is a French novelist and screenwriter. His novel ''La Séparation'' won the 1991 Prix Renaudot, and was made into a movie, ''La Séparation''. Works *''Apolline'', Seuil, 1997, *''Bohèmes'' Calmann ...

, '' Les Calendes grecques'',

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, '' Portrait d'un amour coupable'',

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*1982:

Bruno Racine Bruno Racine (born 17 December 1951 in Paris) is a French civil servant and writer. Early life and education Racine is the son of Pierre Racine (a conseiller d'État) and Edwina Morgulis, Bruno Racine was born in Paris. He studied at the Éco ...

, '' Le Gouverneur de Morée'', Grasset *1983:

Elvire Murail Elvire Murail (born 7 June 1958, in Le Havre) is a French writer, mainly author of books for youth under the pen name Moka. The daughter of poet , she is the younger sister of writers Marie-Aude Murail, Marie-Aude and Lorris Murail, and composer Tr ...

, '' Escalier C'', S. Messinger *1984: Jean-Philippe Arrou-Vignod, '' Le Rideau sur la nuit'', Gallimard *1985: *1986:

Alexandre Jardin Alexandre Jardin (born 14 April 1965) is a French writer, film director and winner of the Prix Femina, 1988, for ''Le Zèbre''. Filmography * 1992 : '' Le Zèbre'' - Writer (novel) * 1993 : ''Fanfan Christine Fan (born March 18, 1976), bette ...

, '' Bille en tête'', Gallimard *1987: Jean-François Merle, '' Cale sèche'', (

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) *1988: Nadine Diamant, '' Désordres'', (Flammarion) *1989: Louis-Jacques Liandier, '' Comme un voleur dans la nuit'' *1990: Caroline Tiné, '' L'immeuble'',

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*1991: Patrick Séry, '' Le Maître et le scorpion'', Flammarion *1992:

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, '' L'Homme de la passerelle'',

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*1993: Christophe Bataille, '' Annam'', Arléa *1994: Jean-François Kervéan, '' La Folie du moment'', Calmann-Lévy *1995:

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, '' Sacré Paul'',

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*1996:

Pascale Roze Pascale Roze (born 1954 Saïgon, Vietnam) is a French playwright, and novelist. After a literature degree, she worked for fifteen years with Gabriel Garran International French Theater. Awards * 1996 Prix Goncourt and Prix du Premier Roman for ...

, ''

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'', Albin Michel *1997: Raymond Bozier, ''

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'', Calmann-Lévy *1998: Christine Chaufour Verheyen, '' Rive dangeureuse'',

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*1999:

Boualem Sansal Boualem Sansal ( ar, بوعلام صنصال; born 15 October 1949) is an Algerian author. In 2012, he was named winner of the Prix du roman arabe, but the prize money was withdrawn due to Sansal's visit to Israel to speak at the Jerusalem Write ...

, '' Le Serment des barbares'', Gallimard *2000: Bruno Gibert, ''

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'' (Fayard) *2001: Claire Béchet, '' Entre parenthèses'', Calmann-Lévy *2002: Christophe Dufossé, '' L'Heure de la sortie'', Albin Michel *2003: Yasmina Trabouli, for '' Les Enfants de la place'', Mercure de France *2004: Caroline Sers, for '' Tombent les avions'', *2005:

Hédi Kaddour Hédi Kaddour (born July 1st, 1945 in Tunis) is a French poet and novelist. Biography Hédi Kaddour was born of a Tunisian father and a French mother. Received 1st at the aggregation of modern letters, he is a translator of English, German an ...

, for '' Waltenberg'', Gallimard *2006: Max Monnehay, for '' Corpus Christine'', Albin Michel *2007: Ingrid Thobois, for '' Le Roi d'Afghanistan ne nous a pas mariés'',

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*2008: Thierry Dancourt, for '' Hôtel de Lausanne'',

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*2009: Jocelyn Bonnerave, for '' Nouveaux indiens'',

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*2010: Victor Cohen Hadria, for ''Les trois saisons de la rage'' *2011:

Marien Defalvard Marien Defalvard is a French novelist, born on 20 February 1992 in Paris. In 2007–2008, he wrote his first novel. In 2011, he received the French literary prize, Prix de Flore and the Prix du Premier Roman prize from France. Biography Origin ...

, for ''Du temps qu'on existait'', Grasset *2012: , for ''L'Assassin à la pomme verte'', Serge Safran *2013: Clément Bénech, for ''L'Été slovène'', Flammarion *2014: , for ''Vera'', Mercure de France *2015: Didier Castino, for ''Après le silence'', Liana Levi *2016:

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, for ''Petit Pays'', Grasset *2017:

Jean-Baptiste Andrea Jean-Baptiste Andrea is a French novelist, film director and screenwriter. He grew up in Cannes, where he started making short films. He later moved to Paris and graduated in political science and economics. In Paris, he met Fabrice Canepa, and t ...

, for ''Ma reine'', L'Iconoclaste *2018: Clélia Renucci, for ''Concours pour le Paradis'', Albin Michel *2019: Géraldine Dalban-Moreynas, for ''On ne meurt pas d'amour'', Plon *2020: Ketty Rouf, for ''On ne touche pas'', Albin Michel *2021: Maud Ventura, for "Mon mari", L'iconoclaste *2022: Maria Larrea, for "Les gens de Bilbao naissent où ils veulent", Grasset

Winners of Prix du Premier Roman Etranger

* 1998:

Martin Suter Martin Suter (born 29 February 1948 in Zürich) is a Swiss author. He became known for his weekly column ''Business Class'' in the Weltwoche newspaper (1992–2004), now appearing in the Tages-Anzeiger, and another column appearing in " NZZ F ...

, Small World (

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

) * 1999:

, Le Serment des barbares (

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) * 2000: Jim Fergus, '' One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd'' (

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) * 2001:

Keith Ridgway Keith Ridgway (born 2 October 1965) is an Irish novelist. An author, he has been described as "a worthy inheritor" of "the modernist tradition in Irish fiction." Writings ''Horses'', Ridgway's first published work of fiction, appeared in ''Faber ...

, ''The Long Falling'' (

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) * 2002: Gwen Edelman, ''War Story (United States)'' * 2003:

Lavinia Greenlaw Lavinia Elaine Greenlaw (born 30 July 1962) is an English poet, novelist and non-fiction writer. She won the Prix du Premier Roman with her first novel and her poetry has been shortlisted for awards that include the T. S. Eliot Prize, Forward Pri ...

, ''Mary George of Allnorthover'' (

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) * 2004: Inderjit Badhwar, The Chamber of Perfumes (

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

) * 2005:

Samina Ali Samina Ali is an American author and activist born in India. Her debut novel, '' Madras on Rainy Days'', won the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger award from France and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award in Fiction. Career She has served ...

, '' Madras on Rainy Days'' (India) * 2006:

Benjamin Kunkel Benjamin Kunkel (born December 14, 1972 in Colorado) is an American novelist and political economist. He co-founded and is a co-editor of the journal '' n+1.'' His novel, ''Indecision'', was published in 2005. Background and education Kunkel gre ...

, Indecision (United States) * 2007:

Dinaw Mengestu Dinaw Mengestu (ዲናው መንግስቱ) (born 30 June 1978) is an Ethiopian-American novelist and writer. In addition to three novels, he has written for ''Rolling Stone'' on the war in Darfur, and for ''Jane Magazine'' on the conflict in north ...

, ''

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'' (United States) * 2008:

James Cañón James Cañón is a Colombian-American writer. He's the author of the award-winning '' Tales from the Town of Widows''. Cañón was born and raised in Ibagué, Colombia. He writes fiction primarily, though he has also written essays. His short s ...

, ''

Tales from the Town of Widows ''Tales from the Town of Widows'' is a 2007 lyrical novel written by Colombian-born author James Cañón. It tells the story of Mariquita, a mountain village that is forever altered the day a band of communist guerrillas forcibly recruits all but ...

'' (

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) * 2009:

Chloe Aridjis Chloe Aridjis (born 1971) is a Mexican-American novelist and writer. Her novel ''Book of Clouds'' (2009) was published in eight countries, and won the Prix du Premier Roman Étranger. Her second novel, ''Asunder'' was published in 2013 to unanimo ...

, ''Book of Clouds'' (United States) * 2010: Amanda Smyth, ''Black Rock'' (Ireland) * 2011:

Nic Pizzolatto Nicholas Austin Pizzolatto (born October 18, 1975) is an American writer, producer and director. He is best known for creating the HBO crime drama series ''True Detective''. Early life Pizzolatto was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is of Ita ...

, ''Galveston: A Novel'' (United States) * 2012:

Amy Waldman Amy Waldman (born May 21, 1969) is an American author and journalist. She was a reporter with ''The New York Times'' for a total of eight years. For three years she was co-chief of the South Asia bureau. Before that she covered Harlem, Brooklyn, ...

, ''The Submission'' (United States) * 2013:

Patrick McGuinness Patrick McGuinness (born 1968) is a British academic, critic, novelist, and poet. He is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Oxford, where he is Fellow and Tutor at St Anne's College. Life McGuinness was born i ...

, ''The Last Hundred Days'' (United Kingdom) * 2014:

Rene Denfeld Rene Denfeld is an American author. Her first novel, ''The Enchanted'' (Harper 2014), was awarded the French Prix du Premier Roman Etranger award, an ALA Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and a Carnegie Listing. The book was a finalist for the C ...

, ''The Enchanted: A Novel'' (United States) * 2015: (ex-æquo) Vanessa Barbara, ''Noites de alface'' (

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) * 2015: (ex-æquo)

Maja Haderlap Maja Haderlap (born 8 March 1961 in Eisenkappel-Vellach ( sl, Železna Kapla-Bela, Carinthia) is a bilingual Slovenian-German Austrian writer, best known for her multiple-award-winning novel, Angel of Oblivion, about the Slovene ethnic minority ...

, ''Angel of Oblivion'' (

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

) * 2016: Davide Enia, ''On Earth as It Is in Heaven: A Novel'' (

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re ...

) * 2017: Katharina Winkler, ''Blue Jewellery'' (

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

) * 2018:

Shih-Li Kow Shih-Li Kow is a Malaysian writer born in 1968. Kow holds a degree in chemical engineering, and resides in Kuala Lumpur with her son and extended family. Her book ''Ripples and Other Stories'' was shortlisted for the 2009 Frank O'Connor Intern ...

, ''The Sum of Our Follies'' (

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) * 2019: Sana Krasikov, ''The Patriots'' (United States) * 2020:

Olja Savičević Olja Savičević Ivančević (born 1974 in Split) is a Croatian novelist, poet and playwright. She is a winner of the Grand Prize of the Druga prikazna Macedonian Literary Festival (2018), the T-Portal Award for Best Novel (2011), and the Mali Ma ...

, ''Adios Cow Boy'' (Croatia) * 2021: Daniel Loedel, ''Hadès, Argentine'' (United States) * 2022: Jarred McGinnis, ''The Coward'' (United States){{Cite web , title=Maria Larrea remporte le Prix du premier roman 2022 , url=https://actualitte.com/article/108424/prix-litteraires/maria-larrea-remporte-le-prix-du-premier-roman-2022 , access-date=2022-10-30 , website=ActuaLitté.com , language=fr-FR

References

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