The Prix Valery Larbaud is a French literary prize created in 1967, ten years after writer Valery Larbaud's death, by ''L'Association Internationale des Amis de Valery Larbaud'', an organization dedicated to the promotion of his works. The prize is awarded to writers of books the jurists feel "that Larbaud would have loved". It is always awarded in Vichy on the last weekend in May.

Prize winners

Winners: * 1967 –

Michel Dard Michel Dard (1908, Pas-de-Calais – 3 July 1979) was a French writer and winner of the Prix Femina The Prix Femina is a French literary prize created in 1904 by 22 writers for the magazine '' La Vie heureuse'' (today known as '' Femina''). Th ...

, ''Mélusine'' * 1968 – Robert Levesque, ''Les Bains d'Estramadure'' * 1969 – Claude Roy, ''Le verbe Aimer et autres essais'' * 1970 –

Henri Thomas Henri Thomas (December 7, 1912 – November 3, 1993) was a French writer and poet. Life Henri Thomas was born at Anglemont, Vosges, and grew up in the Alsace/Lorraine region of France. He moved to Paris to attend the prestigious Henri IV high sc ...

, ''La Relique'' * 1971 – Guy Rohou, ''Le Bateau des Iles'' * 1972 – J.M.G. Le Clézio and Frida Weissman for all their works * 1973 – Georges Perros, ''Papiers collés I, II'' * 1974 –

Pierre Leyris Pierre Leyris (16 July 1907 – 4 January 2001) was a French translator. The writers who benefited from his talent were, among others, Shakespeare in the complete edition of the , Melville, Jean Rhys, Yeats, Dickens, Stevenson, Hawthorne and De ...

, for translations of William Blake's works * 1975 –

Muriel Cerf Muriel Cerf (4 June 1950 – 19 May 2012) was a French novelist and travel writer. Her first book, ''L'Antivoyage'', was inspired by her travels in Southeast Asia, and was a major critical success. She was awarded the Prix Littéraire Valer ...

, ''Le Diable vert'' * 1976 – Marcel Thiry, ''Toi qui pâlis au nom de Vancouver'' * 1977 –

Jean Blot Alexandre Blokh (russian: Александр Арнольдович Блок), called Jean Blot, (31 March 1923, Moscow – 23 December 2019, Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois (Essonne)) was a French writer, translator, and senior civil servant of Russian ...

, ''Les Cosmopolites'' and Françoise Lioure * 1978 – Philippe Jaccottet for all his works * 1979 –

Georges Piroué Georges Piroué (5 August 1920, La Chaux-de-Fonds – 7 January 2005, Dampierre-sur-Loire near Saumur age 84) was a Swiss writer. Biography After studying literature and a doctorate at the University of Neuchâtel, Georges Piroué left for Paris ...

, ''Feux et lieux'' * 1980 – Paule Constant, ''Ouregano'' * 1981 – Noël Devaulx for all his works * 1982 – Christian Giudicelli, ''Une affaire de famille'' * 1983 – Jacques Réda for all his works * 1984 –

Hubert Nyssen Hubert Nyssen (born 11 April 1925 – 12 November 2011) was a Belgian-French writer, publisher and founder of the Éditions Actes Sud. Biography Hubert Nyssen grew up in Boitsfort (today a commune in Brussels) and settled in Provence in 1968. ...

for all his works * 1985 – Jean Lescure and

Bernard Delvaille Bernard Delvaille (1 December 1931 – 18 April 2006) was a French poet, essayist, translator and anthologist. A graduate from the Institut d’Études Politiques, he entered the publishing business in the early 1950s as a reader for Éditions De ...

* 1986 –

René de Ceccatty René de Ceccatty (born 1 January 1952 in Tunis) is a French writer, translator and editor. He has written about 30 novels and biographies and translated works from Italian and Japanese. His 1994 work, ''Violette Leduc, éloge de la bâtarde'' pr ...

, ''L'Or et la Poussière'' * 1987 –

Emmanuel Carrère Emmanuel Carrère (born 9 December 1957) is a French author, screenwriter and film director. Life Family Carrère was born into a wealthy family in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. His father, Louis Carrère d'Encausse, is a retired insurance e ...

, ''Le Détroit de Behring'' * 1988 –

Jean-Marie Laclavetine Jean-Marie Laclavetine (born February 17, 1954 in Bordeaux Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capit ...

, ''Donnafugata'' * 1989 – Jean Rolin, ''La ligne de front'' * 1990 – Frédéric Jacques Temple, ''Anthologie Personnelles'' * 1991 – Frédéric Vitoux, ''Sérénissime'' * 1992 – Nicolas Bréhal, ''Sonate au Clair de Lune'' * 1993 –

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 ...

, ''Au cœur de l'enfance'' * 1994 –

Jean-Noël Pancrazi Jean-Noël Pancrazi (born 28 April 1949 in Sétif, Algeria) is a French author. Biography Early years Jean-Noël Pancrazi spent the first ten years of his life in Algeria with his parents and his sister. His childhood years during the Algerian ...

, ''Le Silence des Passions'' * 1995 –

Alain Blottière Alain Blottière (born 1954 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French writer Works *1980: ''Saad'', novel, Éditions Gallimard, coll. « Le Chemin », Paris, . Prix littéraire de la vocation. *1985: ''Le Point d'eau'', novel, Gallimard, *1990: ''Int ...

, ''L'Enchantement'' * 1996 –

François Bott François Bott (26 June 1935 – 22 September 2022) was a French author who after a long career as a journalist and literary critic became a writer of novels, one of which, ''Une minute d’absence'' (2001), won the Académie Française's ''Pri ...

, ''Radiguet'' * 1997 –

Jean-Paul Enthoven Jean-Paul Enthoven (born 11 January 1949) is a French publisher and journalist.''Who's Who in France'', 2008 edition, . Biography Early life and education Born in Mascara near Oran in French Algeria, Enthoven comes from a bourgeois Jewish fa ...

, ''Les enfants de Saturne'' * 1998 –

Gérard Macé Gérard Macé (born Paris, 4 December 1946) is a French poet, essayist, translator and photographer. He published his first book ''Le jardin des langues'' in 1974 and since then has published nearly 50 books. His work is noted for its mixing of di ...

, ''Colportage I et II'' * 1999 –

Gilles Leroy Gilles Leroy (born 28 December 1958 in Bagneux, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French writer. He studied at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux, which appears in his 1996 novel ''Les Maîtres du monde'' as the "Lycée Ducasse". His novel ''Alabama song'' won th ...

, ''Machines à sous'' * 2000 –

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 ...

, ''Partance et autres lieux'' * 2002 – Jean-Claude Pirotte, ''Ange Vincent'' * 2003 – Georges-Olivier Chateaureynaud, ''Au fond du Paradis'' * 2004 –

Jean-Bertrand Pontalis Jean-Bertrand Pontalis ibé(15 January 1924 – 15 January 2013) was a French philosopher, writer, editor and psychoanalyst. Career A student of Jean-Paul Sartre, Pontalis became a professor of philosophy in the forties, before undergoing an an ...

, ''La Traversée des ombres'' * 2005 –

Christine Jordis Christine Jordis real name Marie-Christine Morel de Foucaucourt (born 4 January 1942 in Algiers) is a French writer, journalist and editor, a specialist in English literature. Biography The daughter of , a colonel of Cavalry, banker and journali ...

, ''Une passion excentrique : visites anglaises'' * 2006 –

Pierre Jourde 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 ...

, ''Festins secrets'' * 2007 –

Vincent Delecroix Vincent Delecroix (born 1969 in Paris) is a French philosopher and writer. A graduate from the École normale supérieure, and agrégé of philosophy, a specialist of Søren Kierkegaard on whom he did his doctoral thesis, he has taught philosoph ...

, ''Ce qui est perdu'' * 2008 - Thomas B. Reverdy, ''Les derniers feux'' * 2009 - Éditions Michel Lafon, ''Une vie de Pierre Ménard'' * 2010 -

Cloé Korman Cloé Korman in February 2014 Cloé Korman (born 1983 in Paris) is a French writer. Cloé Korman studied Anglo-Saxon literature before settling for two years in New York. During trips in 2005, she discovered the west coast of the United States ...

, ''Les Hommes-couleurs'' (Le Seuil) * 2011 -

Jérôme Ferrari Jérôme Ferrari is a French writer and translator born in 1968 in Paris. He won the 2012 Prix Goncourt for his novel ''The Sermon on the Fall of Rome, Le Sermon sur la chute de Rome'' ("The Sermon on the Fall of Rome"). Ferrari has lived in Cors ...

, ''Où j'ai laissé mon âme'' (Actes Sud) * 2012 -

Shumona Sinha Shumona Sinha, also spelled ''Sumana Sinha''; (Bengali: সুমনা সিনহা, Calcutta, 27 June 1973), is a naturalised French writer born in Calcutta, West Bengal, India, who lives in France. In her interviews for the French media, ...

, ''Assommons les pauvres!'' (L'Olivier) * 2013 -

Éric Vuillard Éric Vuillard (4 May 1968, Lyon) is a French writer and film director. He has made two films, ''L'homme qui marche'' and ''Mateo Falcone'', the latter based on a story by Prosper Merimee. He is the author of ''Conquistadors'' (2009) which won t ...

, ''Congo'' et ''La Bataille d'Occident'' (Actes Sud) * 2014 -

Frédéric Verger Frédéric Verger (15 March 1959, Montreuil-sous-Bois) is a French writer. Biography The holder of an agrégation ès letters since 1986, Frédéric Verger is currently a professor of French in the lycée d'Arsonval at Saint-Maur-des-Fossés. ...

, ', Gallimard * 2015 -

Luba Jurgenson Luba Jurgenson et, Ljuba Jürgenson, russian: Люба (ou Любовь) Юргенсон (born 1 July 1958) is a French-speaking woman of letters. She is also a translator, a maître de conférences and codirector (with Anne Coldefy-Faucard) of t ...

, ''Au lieu du péril'', Verdier * 2016 -

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 ...

, ', Gallimard.. * 2017 – Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, ''Règne animal'', Gallimard * 2018 –

Maud Simonnot Maud Simonnot (born 1979) is a French writer and editor. Biography She was born in Semur-en-Auxois in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. She is the author of several acclaimed books, including works of fiction and non-fiction. * ''La nuit pour adresse ...

, ''La Nuit pour adresse'', Gallimard * 2019 –

Anton Beraber Anton may refer to: People *Anton (given name), including a list of people with the given name *Anton (surname) Places *Anton Municipality, Bulgaria **Anton, Sofia Province, a village *Antón District, Panama **Antón, a town and capital of th ...

, ''La Grande Idée'', Gallimard * 2020 – Jacques Drillon, ''Cadence'', Gallimard

References

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