The Académie Mallarmé is a French literary academy of writers and poets, founded in 1937. Since 1976, the Académie has awarded the
Prix Mallarmé The Prix Mallarmé is a poetry prize awarded each year by the Académie Mallarmé to a French speaking poet. To be eligible for the prize the poet must have published a piece in the year concerned, even though the prize does not reward a specific pi ...
literary prize at the Brive book fair.
Founding members include
Paul Valéry
Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry (; 30 October 1871 – 20 July 1945) was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher.
In addition to his poetry and fiction (drama and dialogues), his interests included aphorisms on art, history, letters, m ...
, Édouard Dujardin,
André Fontainas
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,
Charles Vildrac
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,
Maurice Maeterlinck
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, Ferdinand Hérold, Albert Mockel, Léon-Paul Fargue, Francis Viélé-Griffin, Paul Fort,
Saint-Pol-Roux
Paul-Pierre Roux, called Saint-Pol-Roux (15 January 1861, quartier de Saint-Henry, Marseille – 18 October 1940, Brest), was a French Symbolist poet.
Life
Marseille
Saint-Pol-Roux was born to a middle-class family in Marseille, where his ...
, Valéry Larbaud, and
Jean Ajalbert. When asked,
André Gide
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, Francis Jammes and Paul Claudel declined the invitation to become founding members.
Later, Jean Cocteau,
Gérard d'Houville, Henry Charpentier, Jacques Audiberti, and Henri Mondor became members.
In 2008, Academy members include Jean L'Anselme, Jean-Michel Maulpoix,
Robert Sabatier
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The Société littéraire des Goncourt (, ''Gonc ...
, Sylvestre Clancier, Abdellatif Laâbi, Venus Ghoury-Ghata, Andrée Chedid,
Anise Koltz
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, Philippe Jones, Jean Portante, Robert Marteau,
François Montmaneix
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Biography
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, Jean Orizet, Claude Beausoleil, Dominique Grandmont,
Marie-Claire Bancquart
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, Claude Vigée, Richard Rognet, Charles Dobzynski, Pierre Oster, Lionel Ray, Édouard Maunick, Jean Pérol, Bernard Mazo, Philippe Delaveau, Pierre Dhainaut, Henri Meschonnic, Michel Deguy, Alexandre Voisard, Max Alhau, Claudine Helft...
French writers' organizations
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