The grand prix de poésie de la SGDL is a French
literary award
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created by the
Société des gens de lettres
The Société des gens de lettres de France (SGDLF; ; ) is a writers' association founded in 1838 by the notable French authors George Sand, Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, and Alexandre Dumas.
It is a private association recognised in France as ...
in 1983 in order to reward an author for the whole of his work. This award is given to the winner during the spring session of the company. It is endowed with a sum of 500 €.
List of laureates
*1983:
Bernard Noel
*1984:
Géo Norge
*1985:
Rouben Mélik (autumn 84)
*1986:
Edmond Humeau Edmond may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Edmond'' (play), a 1982 play by David Mamet
** ''Edmond'' (film), a 2005 film based on the 1982 play
* '' E.d.M.O.N.D'', a 2013 EP by Edmond Leung
* ''Edmond'', a 2016 play by Alexis Michalik
** ''E ...
(autumn 85)
*1987:
Claude Vigee
*1988:
Jacques Reda
*1989:
André Frénaud
*1990:
Andrée Chedid
Andrée Chedid () (20 March 1920 – 6 February 2011), born Andrée Saab Khoury, was an Egyptian- French poet and novelist of Lebanese and Syrian descent. She is the recipient of numerous literary awards and was made a Grand Officer of the F ...
*1991:
Jean-Claude Renard
*1992:
Pierre Oster
*1993:
Vénus Khoury-Ghata
Vénus Khoury-Ghata (born 1937 in Bsharri, Lebanon) is a Lebanese people in France, French-Lebanese poet and writer.
Early life
Venus Khoury-Ghata was born into a Maronites, Maronite family, the daughter of a French-speaking soldier and a peasa ...
*1994:
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 ci ...
*1995:
Jean-Clarence Lambert
*1996:
Alain Bosquet
Alain Bosquet, born Anatoliy Bisk () (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.
He fought in the Belgian army in ...
*1997:
Claude Esteban
Claude Esteban (26 July 1935, Paris – 10 April 2006, Paris) was a French poet.
Author of a major poetic œuvre of this last half-century, Claude Esteban wrote numerous essays on art and poetry and was the French translator, inter alia, of Jor ...
*1998:
Philippe Jaccottet
Philippe Jaccottet (; 30 June 1925 – 24 February 2021) was a Swiss Francophone poet and translator.
Life and work
After completing his studies in Lausanne, he lived for several years in Paris. In 1953, he moved to the town of Grignan in ...
*1999:
Guy Goffette and
Jean Rousselot
*2000:
Michel Deguy
*2001:
Lionel Ray
*2002:
Richard Rognet
*2003:
Frédéric Jacques Temple
*2004:
Werner Lambersy
*2005:
Franck André Jamme
*2006:
William Cliff
*2007:
Jean Metellus
*2008:
Abdelkebir Khatibi, ''Poésie de l'aimance'' (La Différence)
*2009:
Jean Orizet, ''Le Regard et l'énigme'', œuvre poétique 1958-2008 (Le Cherche-Midi)
*2010:
Philippe Delaveau, ''Le Veilleur amoureux'', (Gallimard)
*2011:
Max Pons, ''Vers le silence'' (La Barbacane)
*2012:
Charles Dobzynski, ''La Mort à vif'' (L'Amourier), ''Je est un juif, roman'' (Orizons)
*2013:
Patrick Laupin, ''Œuvres poétiques'', 2 volumes (Éditions La Rumeur libre)
*2014:
Robert Nedelec, ''Quatre-vingts entames en nu'' (Éditions Jacques Brémond)
*2015:
Paul Farellier, ''L'Entretien devant la nuit, Poèmes 1968-2013'' (Les Hommes sans Épaules éditions)
*2016:
Michel Butor
Michel Butor (; 14 September 1926 – 24 August 2016) was a French poet, novelist, teacher, essayist, art critic and translator.
Life and work
Michel Marie François Butor was born in Mons-en-Barœul, a suburb of Lille, the third of seven chil ...
, ''Ruines d'Avenir, un livre tapisserie'' (Actes Sud/Ville d'Angers)
External links
Grand Prix de Poésie de la SGDLPalmarès des Grands prix 2016 de la SGDL''Michel Butor, Lauréat du Grand Prix SGDL de poésie pour l'ensemble de son œuvre''on
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.
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Haïti – Littérature : René Depestre, Lauréat du Grand Prix SGDL 2016on ''Haïti littérature''
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French poetry awards
Awards established in 1983