The prix Guillaume Apollinaire is a French poetry prize first awarded in 1941. It was named in honour of French writer

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. It annually recognizes a collection of poems for its originality and modernity.

Members of the jury

The members of jury of the Guillaume Apollinaire prize are elected for life. Since the last renewal (2011), the board members are: *

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 ...

(1929–2014) – president * Jean-Pierre Siméon (1950–) – general secretary *

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 ...

(1937–) * Marie-Claire Bancquart (1932–) *

Linda Maria Baros Linda Maria Baros (born 6 August 1981 in Bucharest) is a French-language poet, translator and literary critic, one of the most powerful new voices on today's poetry scene (the famous French literary award ''Prix Guillaume Apollinaire'' – 200 ...

(1981–) *

Tahar Ben Jelloun Tahar Ben Jelloun ( ar, الطاهر بن جلون; born in Fes, Morocco, 1 December 1944) is a Moroccan writer. All of his work is written in French although his first language is Darija. He became known for his 1985 novel ''L’Enfant de Sab ...

(1944–) * Zéno Bianu (1950–) * Georges-Emmanuel Clancier (1914–) * Philippe Delaveau (1950–) *

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 ...

(1947–) * Bernard Mazo (1939–2012) *

Jean Portante Jean Portante (born 19 December 1950 in Differdange) is a Luxembourgish writer who resides in Paris. He has written novels, stories, plays, journalistic articles and poetry, and has been widely translated. Numerous books have been translated incl ...

(1950–) * Robert Sabatier (1923–2012)

Winners

The prize has been awarded 9 times to poets for all of their work: Paul Gilson, Pierre Seghers, Marcel Béalu, Vincent Monteiro, Luc Estang, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Jean-Claude Renard, Yves Martin, and Claude Roy. It has been attributed 9 times to collections published by , 6 times by

Flammarion Flammarion may refer to: * Camille Flammarion (1842–1925), French astronomer and author * Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion (1877–1962), French astronomer, wife of Camille Flammarion * Flammarion engraving by unknown artist; appeared in a book by C ...

and four times by Gallimard. ;1940s * 1941: Just Calveyrach for ''Guyane'', Îles de Lérins * 1942:

Roger Rabiniaux Roger Rabiniaux (3 December 1914 – 27 October 1986Notice « Bellion (Roger, Nicolas, Pierre) » (né en 1914), pages 78 et 79 ''in'' René Bargeton, ''Dictionnaire biographique des préfets'' (septembre 1870mai 1982), Paris, Archives nationa ...

for ''Les Faubourgs du ciel'', Profils Litt. Fr. * 1943:

Yves Salgues Yves Salgues, (2 February 1924 – 4 April 1997) was a French journalist and writer. Life Born in Cazals, in the Lot, in turn reporter for Paris Match, editor of Jours de France and literary columnist in Madame Figaro, he is the author of a col ...

for ''Le Chant de Nathanael'', Profils Litt. Fr. * 1944 to 1946 : pas de désignation * 1947:

Hervé Bazin Hervé Bazin (; 17 April 191117 February 1996) was a French writer, whose best-known novels covered semi-autobiographical topics of teenage rebellion and dysfunctional families. Biography Bazin, born Jean-Pierre Hervé-Bazin in Angers, Maine-e ...

for ''Jour'', Iles de Lérins * 1948: Jean L'Anselme for ''Le Tambour de ville'', LEC, éd. Contemporaines, and

Rouben Melik Rouben Melik (; 14 November 1921 – 21 May 2007) was a French-Armenian poet and a member of the French Resistance. Officer of Ordre des Arts et Lettres (1963). Rouben Melik studied in Sorbonne with Gaston Bachelard, before his entrance to th ...

for ''Passeur d'horizon'', Îles de Lérins * 1949: no designation ;1950s * 1950:

Paul Chaulot Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) *Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity * Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chri ...

''D'autres terres'', Îles de Lérins * 1951:

Paul Gilson Paul Gilson (Brussels, 15 June 1865 – Brussels, 3 April 1942) was a Belgian musician and composer. Biography Paul Gilson was born in Brussels. In 1866, his family moved to Ruisbroek in the Belgian province of Brabant. There he studied the ...

for all his work * 1952:

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 ''Langue morte'', * 1953:

Jean Malrieu Jean Malrieu (29 August 1915, Montauban – 24 April 1976, Montauban) was a 20th-century French poet. Biography He attended high school in his hometown and then studied law. He was mobilized in 1939. After the war, he practiced various trades, ...

for ''Préface à l'amour'', Cahiers du Sud and

Armand Lanoux Armand Lanoux (24 October 1913 - 23 March 1983) was a French writer. Biography Lanoux was born in Paris. Early in life he had several jobs: he was a teacher, designer of candy boxes, bank employee, painter and journalist. He became an editor f ...

for ''Colporteur'', Seghers * 1954:

André de Richaud André de Richaud (April 6, 1907 in Perpignan – September 29, 1968 in Montpellier) was a French poet and writer. After his father was killed in the First World War in 1915, his mother became a lover of a German prisoner of war, which caused him ...

for ''Le Droit d'asile'', Seghers * 1956: Robert Sabatier for ''Les Fêtes solaires'',

Albin Michel Albin may refer to: Places * Albin, Wyoming, US * Albin Township, Brown County, Minnesota, US * Albin, Virginia, US People * Albin (given name), origin of the name and people with the first name "Albin" * Albin (surname) ;Mononyms * Albin of ...

* 1957:

Jacques Baron Jacques Baron (1905–1986) was a French surrealist poet whose first collection of poems was published in ''Aventure'' in 1921. Although he was initially involved with the Dada movement, he became a founding member of the Surrealist movement follow ...

for ''Les Quatre temps'', Seghers * 1957:

Gilbert Trolliet Gilbert may refer to: People and fictional characters * Gilbert (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters *Gilbert (surname), including a list of people Places Australia * Gilbert River (Queensland) * Gilbert River (South ...

for ''La Colline'', Seghers, * 1958:

Jean Rousselot Jean may refer to: People * Jean (female given name) * Jean (male given name) * Jean (surname) Fictional characters * Jean Grey, a Marvel Comics character * Jean Valjean, fictional character in novel ''Les Misérables'' and its adaptations * Jean ...

for ''L'Agrégation du temps'', Seghers * 1959: Luc Bérimont for ''L'Herbe à tonnerre'', Seghers, and

Pierre Seghers Pierre Seghers (5 January 1906, in Paris – 4 November 1987, in Créteil) was a French poet and editor. During the Second World War he took part in the French Resistance movement. Career He founded, among other things, the famous line of boo ...

for all his work ;1960s * 1960:

Marcel Béalu Marcel Béalu was born in Selles-sur-Cher on 30 October 1908, and raised in impoverished circumstances in Saumur. He died on 19 June 1993. Life Largely self-taught, he read the classics of canonical French literature on his own initiative while w ...

and Vincent Monteiro for all their work * 1961: Jean Breton for ''Chair et soleil'',

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* 1962: Jeanne Kieffer for ''Cette Sauvage lumière'', Gallimard * 1963: Jean Bancal for ''Le Chemin des hommes, Silvaire * 1964: Jean Desmeuzes for ''Ballade en Sol majeur'', Millas-Martin * 1965: Robert Lorho (pseudonym: Lionel Ray) for ''Légendaire'', Seghers * 1966: Catherine Tolstoï for ''Ce que savait la rose'', Seghers * 1967:

Lorand Gaspar Lorand Gaspar (28 February 1925, in Târgu Mureș – 9 October 2019, in Paris) was a Hungarian–born French poet. Life Gaspar was born in February 1925 in Târgu Mureș, Romania. In 1943, he enrolled at Palatine Joseph University of Technolog ...

for ''Le Quatrième état de la matière'', Flammarion * 1968: Luc Estang for all his work * 1969: Albert Fabre for ''La Lumière est nommée'', Seghers ;1970s * 1970: Pierre Dalle Nogare for ''Corps imaginaire'', Flammarion * 1971:

Gaston Bonheur Gaston Bonheur, pseudonym for Gaston Tesseyre (27 November 1913 – 4 September 1980) was a French journalist and writer. He is known for writing the screenplay for the 1955 film version of Lady Chatterley's Lover (1955 film), Lady Chatterley's ...

for ''Chemin privé'', Flammarion * 1972: Serge Michenaud for ''Scorpion Orphée'', éditions

Guy Chambelland Guy or GUY may refer to: Personal names * Guy (given name) * Guy (surname) * That Guy (...), the New Zealand street performer Leigh Hart Places * Guy, Alberta, a Canadian hamlet * Guy, Arkansas, US, a city * Guy, Indiana, US, an unincorpo ...

* 1973:

for ''Infini au-delà'', Flammarion * 1974:

Léopold Sédar Senghor Léopold Sédar Senghor (; ; 9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001) was a Senegalese poet, politician and cultural theorist who was the first president of Senegal (1960–80). Ideologically an African socialist, he was the major theoretician o ...

for all his work * 1975:

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 ''Jeunesse de dieu'', Albin Michel * 1976:

Bernard Noël Bernard Noël (19 November 1930 – 13 April 2021) was a French writer and poet. He received the ''Grand Prix national de la poésie'' (National Grand Prize of Poetry) in 1992 and the ''Prix Robert Ganzo'' (Robert Ganzo Prize) in 2010. Biography ...

for ''Treize cases du je'', Flammarion * 1977: Édouard Maunick for ''Ensoleillé vif'', * 1978: Jean-Claude Renard for all his work * 1979: Jean Laugier for ''Rituel pour une ode'', éditions Caractères ;1980s * 1980:

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 ...

for ''Les Ombres et leurs cris'', Belfond * 1981:

Gaston Miron Gaston Miron (; 8 January 1928 – 14 December 1996) was an important poet, writer, and editor of Quebec's Quiet Revolution. His classic ''L'homme rapaillé'' (partly translated as ''The March to Love: Selected Poems of Gaston Miron'', whose ...

for ''L'Homme rapaillé'', Maspéro * 1982: Jean Orizet for ''Le Voyageur absent'', Grasset * 1983: for ''La Seconde porte'', Rougerie * 1984: Pierrette Micheloud for ''Les Mots, la pierre'', La Braconnière * 1985:

Jean-Vincent Verdonnet Jean-Vincent Verdonnet (19 April 1923, Bossey Haute-Savoie – 16 September 2013, Vétraz-Monthoux) was a French poet, close to the . He received numerous literary prizes including *1985: the prix Guillaume Apollinaire *1995: thPrix Paul Verlai ...

for ''Ce qui demeure'', Rougerie * 1986: Claude-Michel Cluny for ''Asymétries'', La Différence * 1987: Yves Broussard for ''Nourrir le feu'', Sud-Poésie * 1988:

James Sacré James is a common English language surname and given name: *James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (disambiguati ...

for ''Une Fin d'après-midi à Marrakech'', André Dimanche * 1989: Philippe Delaveau for ''Eucharis'',

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;1990s * 1990: Jacques Gaucheron for ''Entre mon ombre et la lumière'', éditions Messidor * 1991:

Yves Martin Yves Martin (22 November 1929 – 23 February 2021) was a Canadian sociologist. He was the laity rector at the Université de Sherbrooke and was one of the founders of the Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail. ...

for all his work * 1992: François de Cornière for ''Tout cela'' * 1993:

René Depestre René Depestre (born 29 August 1926, Jacmel, Haiti) is a Haitian poet and former communist activist. He is considered to be one of the most prominent figures in Haitian literature. He lived in Cuba as an exile from the Duvalier regime for ma ...

for ''Anthologie personnelle'',

Actes Sud Actes Sud is a French publishing house based in Arles. It was founded in 1978 by author Hubert Nyssen. By 2013, the company, then headed by Nyssen's daughter, Françoise Nyssen, had an annual turnover of 60 million euros and 60 staff members. ...

* 1994: Jean-Pierre Siméon for ''Le Sentiment du monde'',

Cheyne Cheyne is both a surname of Scottish origin which means "oak tree", and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname: *Bob Cheyne * Rob Cheyne *John Cheyne (speaker) Speaker of the House of Commons (14th century) * John Cheyne, Baron ...

* 1995: Claude Roy for all his work * 1996:

Patrice Delbourg Patrice is a given name meaning ''wiktionary:noble, noble'' or ''Patrician (ancient Rome), patrician'', related to the names Patrick (given name), Patrick and Patricia (disambiguation), Patricia. In English language, English, Patrice is often a fem ...

for ''L'Ampleur du désastre'', Le Cherche midi * 1997:

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 ...

for ''Lutteur sans triomphe'', L'Estocade * 1998: Anise Koltz for ''Le Mur du son'', Éditions phi, Luxembourg * 1999: Claude Mourthé for ''Dit plus bas'', Le Castor astral ;2000s * 2000:

Alain Jouffroy Alain Jouffroy (11 September 1928 – 20 December 2015) was a French writer, poet and artist. Jouffroy was born near Parc Montsouris, Paris. He was the first advocate of an Art Strike and formed the L'Union des Ecrivains during the strikes of ...

for ''C'est aujourd'hui toujours'', Gallimard * 2001: Alain Lance for ''Temps criblé'', Obsidiane/

Le Temps qu'il fait Le Temps qu'il fait is a French publishing house, first established in Cognac, and active since 1981. History Created and directed by Georges Monti, Le Temps qu'il fait is now located at Bazas, in Gironde. The house draws its name from the epony ...

* 2002:

Claude Adelen Claude Adelen (born 23 May 1944, Paris) is a French poet and literary critic. Works *1968: ''Ordre du jour'', Paris, Éditions Pierre Jean Oswald, 79 p. *1975: ''Bouche à la terre'', Paris, Action poétique, 46 p. *1977: ''Légendaire'', P ...

for ''Soleil en mémoire'', Dumerchez * 2003:

François Montmaneix François Montmaneix (June 4, 1938 in Lyon – October 21, 2018 in Lyon) was a French poet and writer. Biography François Montmaneix was for many years an important player in Lyon's cultural life, directing the Maurice-Ravel auditorium, where ...

for ''Les Rôles invisibles'', Le Cherche midi * 2004:

Jacques Darras 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 ''Vous n'avez pas le vertige'', Gallimard/ L'Arbalète * 2005: Bernard Chambaz for ''Été'', Flammarion * 2006:

Jean-Baptiste Para Jean-Baptiste is a male French language, French name, originating with Saint John the Baptist, and sometimes shortened to Baptiste (name), Baptiste. The name may refer to any of the following: Persons * Charles XIV John of Sweden, born Jean-Bapt ...

for ''La Faim des ombres'', Obsidiane * 2007:

for '' La Maison en lames de rasoir'', Cheyne * 2008: Alain Borer for ''Icare & I don't'',

Éditions du Seuil Éditions du Seuil (), also known as ''Le Seuil'', is a French publishing house established in 1935 by Catholic intellectual Jean Plaquevent (1901–1965), and currently owned by La Martinière Groupe. It owes its name to this goal "The ''seuil'' ...

* 2009: Jacques Ancet for ''L'Identité obscure'', Lettres Vives ;2010s * 2010: Jean-Marie Barnaud for ''Fragments d'un corps incertain'', Cheyne * 2011:

Jean-Claude Pirotte Jean-Claude Pirotte (20 October 1939 – 24 May 2014) was a Belgian writer, poet and painter. A French language writer, his 2006 novel, ''Une adolescence en Gueldre'', won the Prix des Deux Magots. Life Early years Jean-Claude Pirotte was born ...

for ''Cette âme perdue'', Le Castor astral and ''Autres Séjours'',

* 2012:

Valérie Rouzeau Valérie Rouzeau (born 22 August 1967, in Cosne-sur-Loire), is a French poet and translator. She is the eldest of a family of seven children. She holds a Master of literary translation. She received the Prix Guillaume Apollinaire for Poetry in 2 ...

for ''Vrouz'',

La Table ronde LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States. La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * La (musical note), or A, the sixth note * "L.A.", a song by Elliott Smith on ''Figur ...

* 2013:

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 ...

for ''Phares, balises & feux brefs'', suivi de ''Périples'', Bruno Doucey * 2014: Askinia Mihaylova for ''Ciel à perdre'', Gallimard * 2015:

Liliane Wouters Liliane Wouters (5 February 193028 February 2016) was a Belgian poet, playwright, translator, anthologist and essayist. Life Wouters was born in Ixelles and taught school from 1949 to 1990. She met Albert Andrew Lheureux and his Théâtre de l'E ...

for ''Derniers feux sur terre'', Editions Le Taillis Pré, and for all her work * 2016: for all his work, on the occasion of the publication of his collection ''Voix entre Voix'', L'herbe qui tremble * 2017: for ''Flamenco: les souliers de la Joselito'', Les fondeurs de brique/Dernier Télégramme * 2018: Cécile Coulon for ''Les Ronces'', Le Castor astral * 2019: Olivier Barbarant for ''Un grand instant'', Champ Vallon

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