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 piece of poetry but the author's work all along his career as a whole. The prize may only be won once.
Le Prix Mallarmé The prize is awarded on the occasion of the

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which takes place in

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, in the

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, France. The cash prize amounts to €3,811 (25,000 FF). Over the past three years it has been financed through sponsorship from the company ISS; previously it was sponsored by the Mairie of Brives.

Winners

This is an incomplete list of authors having won the prize:

Académie Mallarmé

The ''Académie Mallarmé'' (Mallarmé Academy) was founded in 1937. It is a French not-for-profit association (known in French as an ''association loi de 1901'', a "1901 law association"), founded in commemoration of

Stéphane Mallarmé Stéphane Mallarmé ( , ; ; 18 March 1842 – 9 September 1898), pen name of Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French Symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools o ...

, by people who knew him. Its main objective is the promotion of poetry, and for a long time it was presided over by Guillevic and

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 ...

. It consists of thirty French or French-speaking members and 15 foreign correspondents. Notable members of the Académie include Jean Orizet, Marie-Claire Bancquart, Lionel Ray, Claude-Michel Cluny, François Montmaneix, Robert Sabatier, Jean Rousselot, Michel Deguy, Charles Dobzinski, Philippe Jones, Jean-Michel Maulpoix, Henri Meschonnic, Pierre Oster,

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 ...

; and the foreign correspondents are Ismail Kadaré,

Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish Irish poetry, poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is ''Death of a Naturalist'' (1966), his first m ...

and Andrei Vossnessenski. The Academy seeks to promote poetry and organises poetry readings as well as the annual award of the Mallarmé prize. The Academy also seeks to promote the work of

, which is now in the public domain (since he died more than a hundred years ago).

References

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