The Prix Valery Larbaud is a French

literary prize A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. Man ...

created in 1967, ten years after writer

Valery Larbaud Valery Larbaud (29 August 1881 – 2 February 1957) was a French writer and poet. Life He was born in Vichy, the only child of a pharmacist Nicolas Larbaud and Isabelle Bureau des Étivaux. His father died when he was 8, and he was brought up ...

'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

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on the last weekend in May.

Prize winners

Winners: * 1967 – Michel Dard, ''Mélusine'' * 1968 – Robert Levesque, ''Les Bains d'Estramadure'' * 1969 – Claude Roy, ''Le verbe Aimer et autres essais'' * 1970 –

Henri Thomas Henri Thomas (7 December 1912 – 3 November 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 sch ...

, ''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, for translations of

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's works * 1975 – Muriel Cerf, ''Le Diable vert'' * 1976 –

Marcel Thiry Marcel Thiry (13 March 1897 – 5 September 1977) was a French-speaking Belgian poet. During World War I, he and his brother Oscar served in the Belgian Expeditionary Corps in Russia. He was awarded the Prix Valery Larbaud in 1976 for '' Toi q ...

, ''Toi qui pâlis au nom de Vancouver'' * 1977 –

Jean Blot Alexandre Blokh (), 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 origin. Biography Blot came from two bourgeois families ...

, ''Les Cosmopolites'' and Françoise Lioure * 1978 –

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 ...

for all his works * 1979 – Georges Piroué, ''Feux et lieux'' * 1980 – Paule Constant, ''Ouregano'' * 1981 – Noël Devaulx for all his works * 1982 – Christian Giudicelli, ''Une affaire de famille'' * 1983 –

Jacques Réda Jacques Réda (24 January 1929 – 30 September 2024) was a French poet, jazz critic, and ''flâneur''. He was awarded the Prix Valery Larbaud in 1983, and was chief editor of the ''Nouvelle Revue Française ''La Nouvelle Revue Française'' (; ...

for all his works * 1984 –

Hubert Nyssen Hubert Nyssen (; 11April 192512November 2011) was a Belgian-French writer, publisher and founder of the Éditions Actes Sud. Biography Hubert Nyssen grew up in Watermael-Boitsfort, Boitsfort (today a commune in Brussels) and settled in Provenc ...

for all his works * 1985 –

Jean Lescure Jean Lescure (; 14 September 1912 – 17 October 2005) was a French poet. Biography Lescure was born in Asnières-sur-Seine. In 1938, he published his first plaquette of poems, "Le voyage immobile", and launched the review "Messages" (two iss ...

and Bernard Delvaille * 1986 – René de Ceccatty, ''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 ...

, ''Le Détroit de Behring'' * 1988 –

Jean-Marie Laclavetine Jean-Marie Laclavetine (born February 17, 1954, in Bordeaux) is a French editor, writer and translator of Italian literature into French. Biography Jean-Marie Laclavetine was born in 1954 in Bordeaux. At the age of twenty-six he published his ...

, ''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 –

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, ''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 Algeria ...

, ''Le Silence des Passions'' * 1995 – Alain Blottière, ''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 f ...

, ''Les enfants de Saturne'' * 1998 –

Gérard Macé Gérard Macé (born Paris, 4 December 1946) is a French people, 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 i ...

, ''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 ...

, ''Machines à sous'' * 2000 – Guy Goffette, ''Partance et autres lieux'' * 2002 – Jean-Claude Pirotte, ''Ange Vincent'' * 2003 – Georges-Olivier Chateaureynaud, ''Au fond du Paradis'' * 2004 –

Jean-Bertrand Pontalis Jean-Bertrand Lefèvre-Pontalis (; 15 January 1924, Paris – 15 January 2013, Paris) was a French philosopher, writer, editor and psychoanalyst. Career A student of Jean-Paul Sartre, Pontalis became a professor of philosophy in the 1940s, bef ...

, ''La Traversée des ombres'' * 2005 – Christine Jordis, ''Une passion excentrique : visites anglaises'' * 2006 – Pierre Jourde, ''Festins secrets'' * 2007 – Vincent Delecroix, ''Ce qui est perdu'' * 2008 – Thomas B. Reverdy, ''Les derniers feux'' * 2009 – Éditions Michel Lafon, ''Une vie de Pierre Ménard'' * 2010 – Cloé Korman, ''Les Hommes-couleurs'' (Le Seuil) * 2011 –

Jérôme Ferrari Jérôme Ferrari (born 1968 in Paris) is a French writer and translator. He won the 2012 Prix Goncourt for his novel ''Le Sermon sur la chute de Rome'' ('' The Sermon on the Fall of Rome''). Ferrari has lived in Corsica and taught philosophy at t ...

, ''Où j'ai laissé mon âme'' (Actes Sud) * 2012 – Shumona Sinha, ''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 the story ''Mateo Falcone'' by Prosper Merimee. He is the author of ''Conquistadors ...

, ''Congo'' et ''La Bataille d'Occident'' (Actes Sud) * 2014 – Frédéric Verger, ', Gallimard * 2015 –

Luba Jurgenson Luba Jurgenson, (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 the series "Poustiaki" at . Her novel ''Au lieu du péril'' (2014) earned ...

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

Hédi Kaddour image:Hédi Kaddour 2015 (cropped).jpg, Hédi Kaddour (born 1 July 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 Agrégation in France, aggregation ...

, ', Gallimard.. * 2017 – Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, ''Règne animal'', Gallimard * 2018 – Maud Simonnot, ''La Nuit pour adresse'', Gallimard * 2019 – Anton Beraber, ''La Grande Idée'', Gallimard * 2020 –

Jacques Drillon Jacques Drillon (25 June 1954 – 25 December 2021) was a French journalist and writer. He studied literature and cinema in Nancy and Metz and earned a doctorate in linguistics in 1993 with the thesis ''La loi formelle et son influence sur la cr ...

, ''Cadence'', Gallimard

References

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