The Prix France Télévisions are annual literary awards in
France
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. Since 1995, the national television broadcaster
France Télévisions
France Télévisions (; stylized since 2018 as ) is the French national public television broadcaster. It is a state-owned company formed from the integration of the public television channels France 2 (formerly Antenne 2) and France 3 (form ...
has awarded two prizes, for a
novel
A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book. The word derives from the for 'new', 'news', or 'short story (of something new)', itself from the , a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ...
and an
essay
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. The judging panel consists of 15 television viewers chosen from across France, on the basis of their cover letters.
Winners of the France Télévisions novel prize
* 1995:
Florence Seyvos, ''Les Apparitions'' (
Éditions de l'Olivier)
* 1996:
Jean-Paul Dubois, ''Kennedy et moi'' (
Seuil
Seuil () is a commune in the Ardennes department in northern France.
Population
See also
*Communes of the Ardennes department
The following is a list of the 447 communes of the Ardennes department of France
France, officially ...
)
* 1997:
Louis Gardel
Louis Gardel is a French novelist, screenwriter, and publisher, born in Algiers in 1939. He is also publishing director of Éditions du Seuil and a permanent member of the Prix Renaudot jury.
Bibliography
* ''L'Été fracassé'' (1973)
* ''Coute ...
, ''L'Aurore des bien-aimés'' (Seuil)
* 1998:
Paule Constant, ''
Confidence pour confidence'' (
Gallimard)
* 1999:
Michèle Desbordes
Michèle Desbordes (4 August 1940, Saint-Cyr-en-Val (Loiret) – 24 January 2006, Baule (Loiret), aged 65) was a French writer. A curator of university libraries, she received several awards for her story ''La Demande'' devoted to Leonardo da V ...
, ''La Demande'' ()
* 2000:
Dominique Jamet
Dominique Jamet (né Benjamin Jamet; born 16 February 1936, in Poitiers) is a French journalist, writer, and politician, best known for serving as the editor-in-chief of ''Le Quotidien de Paris'' from 1979 to 1987, serving as the president of Bib ...
, ''Un petit Parisien 1941-1945'' (
Flammarion Flammarion may refer to:
* Camille Flammarion (1842–1925), French astronomer and author
* Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion (1877–1962), French astronomer, second wife of Camille Flammarion
* Sylvie Flammarion (1836-1919), French feminist and paci ...
)
* 2000:
Philippe Claudel
Philippe Claudel (born 2 February 1962) is a French writer and film director.
Claudel was born in Dombasle-sur-Meurthe, Meurthe-et-Moselle. In addition to his writing, Claudel is a professor of literature at the University of Nancy.
He directe ...
, ''J'abandonne'' ()
* 2001:
François Vallejo, ''Madame Angeloso'' ()
* 2002:
Jean-Pierre Milovanoff, ''La Mélancolie des innocents'' (
Grasset)
* 2003:
Serge Joncour
Serge Joncour (; born 1961) is a French novelist and screenwriter. He was born in Paris and studied philosophy at university. His debut novel ''UV'' was published in 1998. Notable books include:
* ''L'Écrivain national'', which won the Prix des ...
, ' ()
* 2004:
Éric Fottorino
Éric Fottorino (born 26 August 1960) is a French journalist and writer. He is the winner of the Prix Femina, 2007, for ''Baisers de cinéma''. After having been a reporter for the daily newspaper ''Le Monde'', then becoming editor-in-chief and ...
, ''Korsakov'' (
allimard)
* 2005: Franck Pavloff, ''Le Pont de Ran-Mositar'' (
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* 2005: Franck Pavloff, ''Le Pont de Ran-Mositar'' (Albin Michel)
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* 2005: Franck Pavloff, ''Le Pont de Ran-Mositar'' (Albin Michel)
* 2006: Nancy Huston, ' (Actes Sud)
* 2007: Olivier Adam, ''À l'abri de rien'' (L'Olivier)
* 2008: Yasmina Khadra, ''What the Day Owes the Night, Ce que le jour doit à la nuit'' (Éditions Julliard, Julliard)
* 2009:
Véronique Ovaldé, ' (L'Olivier)
* 2010:
Jérôme Ferrari, ''Où j'ai laissé mon âme'' (Actes Sud)
* 2011:
Delphine de Vigan, ' (
JC Lattès
JC Lattès is a French publishing house. A division of Hachette Livre since 1981, JC Lattès' catalogue includes the works of Dan Brown, as well as '' Fifty Shades of Grey'' by E. L. James.
Founder Jean-Claude Lattès died on 17 January 2018 ...
)
* 2012:
Antoine Choplin, ''La Nuit tombée'' (Éditions La fosse aux ours)
* 2013:
Pierre Lemaitre, ''
Au revoir là-haut'' (Albin Michel)
* 2014:
Éric Reinhardt, ''
L'Amour et les Forêts'' (Gallimard)
* 2016:
Olivier Bourdeaut, ''
En attendant Bojangles'' (Éditions Finitude)
* 2017:
Nathacha Appanah, ''Tropique de la violence'' (
Gallimard)
* 2018:
Michel Bernard, ''Le Bon Cœur'' (
La Table ronde
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*La (musical note), or A, the sixth note
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)
* 2019:
Ali Zamir, ''Dérangé que je suis'' (
Le Tripode)
* 2020:
Amanda Sthers
Amanda Queffélec-Maruani (born 18 April 1978), known professionally as Amanda Sthers, is a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker.
Biography
Sthers is of Tunisian Sefardi and Breton origins. She has written ten novels which hav ...
, ''Lettre d'amour sans le dire'' (
Grasset)
Winners of the France Télévisions essay prize
* 1995:
Mona Ozouf
Mona Ozouf (born Mona Annig Sohier 24 February 1931) is a French historian and philosopher. Born into a family of schoolteachers keen on preserving the language and the culture of Brittany, she graduated as a teacher of philosophy from the Écol ...
, ''Les Mots des femmes'' (
Fayard
Fayard (complete name: ''Librairie Arthème Fayard'') is a French Paris-based publishing house established in 1857. Fayard is controlled by Hachette Livre.
In 1999, Éditions Pauvert became part of Fayard. Claude Durand was director of Fayar ...
)
* 1996:
Olivier Todd, ''Albert Camus, une vie'' (Gallimard)
* 1997:
Antoine de Baecque,
Serge Toubiana, ''François Truffaut'' (Gallimard)
* 1998:
Xavier Darcos
Xavier Darcos (; born 14 July 1947) is a French politician, scholar, civil servant and former Minister of Labour.
An ''agrégé'' professor in literature and general inspector of the National Education system, he has been Mayor of Périgueux ...
, ''Mérimée'' (Flammarion)
* 1999: Michel Baridon, ''Les Jardins : Paysagistes, jardiniers, poètes'' (
Robert Laffont
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)
* 2000: Dominique Jamet, ''Un petit parisien, 1941-1945'' (Flammarion)
* 2001:
Roger-Pol Droit, ''101 expériences de philosophie quotidienne'' ({{ill, Éditions Odile Jacob, fr)
* 2002:
Patrick Declerck, ''Les Naufragés'' (
Plon)
* 2003:
Jérôme Garcin, ''Théâtre intime'' (Gallimard)
* 2004:
Stephen Smith, ''Négrologie : pourquoi l'Afrique meurt'' (
Calmann-Lévy
Calmann-Lévy is a French publishing house founded in 1836 by Michel Lévy as Michel Lévy frères. His brother Kalmus Calmann Lévy joined in 1844. After Michel's death in 1875, the firm was renamed ''Calmann Lévy''.[Jean-Pierre Vernant
Jean-Pierre Vernant (; January 4, 1914 – January 9, 2007) was a French resistant, historian and anthropologist, specialist in ancient Greece. Influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Vernant developed a structuralist approach to Greek myth, traged ...]
, ''La Traversée des frontières'' (Seuil)
* 2006:
Hubert Prolongeau, ''Victoire sur l'excision : Pierre Foldes, le chirurgien qui redonne l'espoir aux femmes mutilées'' (Albin Michel)
* 2007:
Alain Bentolila, ''Le Verbe contre la barbarie : Apprendre à nos enfants à vivre ensemble'' (Odile Jacob)
* 2008:
Wassyla Tamzali, ''Une éducation algérienne : De la révolution à la décennie noire'' (Gallimard)
* 2009:
Dominique Fernandez
Dominique Fernandez (born 25 August 1929) is a French writer of novels, essays and travel books. Much of his writing explores homosexual experience and creativity. In 1982 he won the Prix Goncourt for his novel about Pier Paolo Pasolini; and i ...
, ''Ramon'' (Grasset)
* 2010:
Guillaume de Fonclare, ''Dans ma peau'' (
Stock
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)
* 2011:
Michel Pastoureau, ''Les Couleurs de nos souvenirs'' (Seuil)
* 2012:
Rithy Panh
Rithy Panh (; born April 18, 1964) is a Cambodian documentary film director, author and screenwriter.
The French-schooled director's films focus on the aftermath of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. His works are from an authorit ...
, ''L’Élimination'' (Grasset)
* 2013:
Nicolas Werth ''La Route de la Kolyma'' (
Éditions Belin
Éditions Belin, or Belin éditeur, is a French publishing house. It was founded in 1777 and specializes in university, school and extracurricular works.
Until 2014, Belin was the oldest still-independent French publishing house. On October 30, 2 ...
)
* 2014:
Gilles Lapouge ''L’Âne et l’Abeille'' (Albin Michel)
* 2015:
Emmanuel de Waresquiel ''Fouché, les silences de la pieuvre'' (
Editions Fayard)
* 2016:
Mathias Malzieu ''Journal d'un vampire en pyjama'' (Albin Michel)
* 2017:
Patrizia Paterlini-Bréchot
Patrizia Paterlini-Bréchot, born in the Italian city of Reggio Emilia, is an Italian scientist and a professor of cell biology and oncology working at the Faculté de Médecine Necker-Enfants Malades, Université Paris Descartes and at INSERM i ...
, ''Tuer le cancer'' (
Stock
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)
* 2018:
Ivan Jablonka, ''En camping-car'' (
Seuil
Seuil () is a commune in the Ardennes department in northern France.
Population
See also
*Communes of the Ardennes department
The following is a list of the 447 communes of the Ardennes department of France
France, officially ...
)
* 2019:
Valérie Zenatti, ''Dans le faisceau des vivants'' (
L'Olivier)
* 2020:
François Durpaire, ''Histoire mondiale du bonheur'' (
Le Cherche midi)
External links
''Olivier Bourdeaut et Mathias Malzieu lauréats des Prix France Télévisions''on France Info (17/03/2016)
''Prix Roman France Télévisions''on Livres hebdo (17/03/2016)
'' Les lauréats du prix France Télévisions''on France 5 (17/03/2016)
French literary awards
Awards established in 1995
1995 establishments in France