The Prix Méditerranée (Mediterranean Prize) is a French literary award. It was created in 1984 in

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by the Mediterranean Centre of Literature (CML) in order to promote cultural interaction among the numerous countries surrounding the

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. Two awards are handed out every year, the Prix Méditerranée itself and the Prix Méditerranée Étranger (or the Overseas Mediterranean Prize). The latter is given to a writer from the Mediterranean basin whose original work has been translated into French.

List of winners

Prix Méditerranée

André Chouraqui par Claude Truong-Ngoc 1979

* 2020:

Mahi Binebine Mahi Binebine ( ar, ماحي بنيبين) is a Moroccan painter and novelist born in Marrakech in 1959. Binebine has written six novels which have been translated into various languages. Career Born in 1959 in Marrakech, Mahi Binebine moved i ...

, ''Rue du pardon'' * 2019: Jérôme Ferrari, ''À son image'' * 2018:

Kamel Daoud Kamel Daoud ( ar, كمال داود; born June 17, 1970) is a French-Algerian writer and journalist. He currently edits the French-language daily ''Le quotidien d’Oran,'' for which he writes a popular column, "Raïna Raïkoum" (Our Opinion, Yo ...

, ''Zabor ou Les psaumes'' * 2017: Metin Arditi, ''L'Enfant qui mesurait le monde'' * 2016:

Teresa Cremisi Teresa Cremisi (born October 7, 1945) is an Egyptian-born Italian publisher and writer. She was born in Alexandria, where she attended the French Catholic boarding school Notre-Dame de Sion d'Alexandrie. She left Egypt with her family after the Su ...

, ''La triomphante'' * 2015:

Valérie Zenatti Valérie Zenatti (born 1 April 1970, in Nice) is a French writer, translator and screenwriter. Biography Her novel, ' enjoyed a critical and public success and - after being selected in the final prix Médicis and prix des libraires – was ...

, ''Jacob, Jacob'' * 2014:

Gérard de Cortanze Gérard de Cortanze (born 22 July 1948 in Paris) is a French writer, essayist, translator and literary critic. He won the Prix Renaudot in 2002 for his historical novel ''Assam''. He was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 2009.http://www. ...

, ''L’an prochain à Grenade'' (Albin Michel) * 2013:

Wajdi Mouawad Wajdi Mouawad, OC, (born 1968) is a Lebanese-Canadian writer, actor, and director. He is known in Canadian and French theatre for politically engaged works such as the acclaimed play ''Incendies'' (2003). His works often revolve around family t ...

, ''Anima'' * 2012:

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 Algerian ...

, ''La Montagne'' * 2011: Pierre Assouline, ''Les vies de Job'' * 2010: Dominique Baudis, ''Les Amants de Gibraltar'' (Grasset) * 2009:

Alexandre Najjar Alexandre Najjar (born February 5, 1967) is a Lebanese and French writer, lawyer and literary critic. He was born in Beirut and studied at Panthéon-Assas University and University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. He holds a Doctorate in Business a ...

, ''Phenicia'' (Plon) * 2008: Louis Gardel, ''La baie d'Alger'' (Seuil) * 2007: Emile Brami, ''Le manteau de la Vierge'' (Fayard) * 2006:

Michel del Castillo Michel del Castillo (a.k.a. Michel Janicot del Castillo) born in 1933 in Madrid is a French writer. Biography Michel del Castillo was born in Madrid. His father, Michel Janicot, was French and his mother, Cándida Isabel del Castillo, Spanish. I ...

, ''Dictionnaire amoureux de l'Espagne'' (Plon) * 2005: Jean-Pierre Vernant, ''La Traversée des frontières'' (Seuil) * 2004:

Amin Maalouf Amin Maalouf (; ar, أمين معلوف; born 25 February 1949) is a Lebanese-born French"Amin ...

, ''Origines'' (Grasset) * 2003: François Sureau, ''Les Alexandrins'' (Gallimard) * 2002: Jean-Paul Mari, ''Il faut abattre la lune'' (Nil) * 2001: Edmonde Charles-Roux, ''L'Homme de Marseille'' (Grasset) * 2000:

Albert Cossery Albert Cossery (3 November 1913 – 22 June 2008) was an Egyptian-born French writer. Although Cossery lived most of his life in Paris and only wrote in the French language, all of his novels were either set in his country of birth, Egypt, or i ...

, ''Les Couleurs de l'infamie'' (Joëlle) * 1999:

Jean Daniel Jean Daniel Bensaid (21 July 1920 – 19 February 2020) was a French journalist and author. He was the founder and executive editor of ''Le Nouvel Observateur'' weekly now known as ''L'Obs''. Life and career Daniel was born in Blida, Algeria, a ...

, ''Avec le temps'' (Grasset) * 1998: Alain Nadaud, ''Auguste fulminant'' (Grasset) * 1997:

Jean-Christophe Rufin Jean-Christophe Rufin (born 28 June 1952) is a French doctor, diplomat, historian, globetrotter and novelist. He is the president of Action Against Hunger, one of the earliest members of Médecins Sans Frontières, and a member of the Académie ...

, ''L'Abyssin'' (Gallimard) * 1996: Hector Bianciotti, ''Le Pas si lent de l'amour'' (Grasset) * 1995:

André Chouraqui Nathan André Chouraqui (; 11 August 1917 – 9 July 2007) was a French- Algerian- Israeli lawyer, writer, scholar and politician. Early life Chouraqui was born in Aïn Témouchent, Algeria. His parents, Isaac Chouraqui and Meleha Meyer, both d ...

, ''Moïse'' (Le Rocher) * 1994:

Tahar Ben Jelloun Tahar Ben Jelloun ( ar, الطاهر بن جلون; born in Fes, Morocco, 1 December 1944) is a Moroccan writer. All of his work is written in French although his first language is Darija. He became known for his 1985 novel ''L’Enfant de Sable ...

, ''L'Homme rompu'' (Seuil) * 1993:

Jean Thuillier Jean Thuillier (12 October 1921 – 22 August 2017) was a French novelist and medical doctor. He wrote a number of books, and won the Prix Littré and the Prix Méditerranée among others. Thuillier died in August 2017 at the age of 95. Selected ...

, ''Campo morto'' (José Corti) * 1992:

Robert Solé Robert Solé (born 1946) is a French journalist and novelist of Egyptian origin. Born in Cairo in 1946, Solé moved to France at the age of 18. He has served as ombudsman of the Parisian newspaper '' Le Monde''. His works of fiction include ''Le ...

, ''Le tarbouche'' (Seuil) * 1991: Tahar Djaout, ''Les vigiles'' (Seuil) * 1990: Philippe Le Guillou, ''La rumeur du soleil'' (Gallimard) * 1989: Jules Roy, ''Mémoires barbares'' (Albin Michel) * 1988: Dominique Fernandez, ''Le radeau de la Gorgone'' (Grasset) * 1987:

François Fontaine François Fontaine (20 December 1917 – 23 March 1996) was a French civil servant and writer. Fontaine was long associated with Jean Monnet, with whom he started working in 1945 at the Commissariat général du Plan, and with the early build ...

, ''Blandine de Lyon'' (Julliard) * 1986: Chochana Boukhobza, ''Un été à Jérusalem'' (Balland) * 1985: Nicolas Saudray, ''La maison des prophètes'' (Seuil)

Prix Méditerranée Étranger

* 2020:

Giosuè Calaciura Giosuè Calaciura is an Italian writer. He was born in Palermo in 1960. A career journalist, he writes regularly for many daily newspapers and magazines. He also writes for the theatre and radio. His debut novel ''Malacarne'' was published in 19 ...

, ''Borgo vecchio'' * 2019:

Marco Balzano Marco Balzano (born 1978) is an Italian writer. He was born in Milan, where he now works as a teacher of literature in a high school. Balzano has written several acclaimed novels: * Il figlio del figlio, which won the Premio Corrado Alvaro for ...

, ''Je reste ici'' * 2018: Daniel Mendelsohn, Une odyssée, Un père, un fils, une épopée, traduit par Clothilde Meyer et Isabelle D. Taudière. * 2017: Ersi Sotiropoulos, Ce qui reste de la nuit * 2016:

Lluís Llach Lluís Llach i Grande (; born 7 May 1948) is a Catalan singer-songwriter, novelist and politician from Spain. He is one of the main representatives of the ''nova cançó'' genre and an outspoken advocate of the right to self-determination ...

, ''Les yeux fardés''. * 2015: Milena Agus and

Luciana Castellina Luciana Castellina (born 9 August 1929) is an Italian journalist, writer, politician, and feminist. Biography Luciana Castellina was born in Rome on 9 August 1929. She graduated in law from Sapienza University of Rome. In 1947, she joined th ...

, ''Prends garde'' * 2014:

Javier Cercas Javier Cercas Mena (born 1962 in Ibahernando) is a Spanish writer and professor of Spanish literature at the University of Girona, Spain. He was born in Ibahernando, Cáceres, Spain. He is a frequent contributor to the Catalan edition of '' ...

, ''Les lois de la Frontière'',

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. ...

* 2013:

Nedim Gürsel Nedim Gürsel (born 5 April 1951 in Gaziantep) is a Turkish writer. In the late 1960s, he published novellas and essays in Turkish magazines. After graduating from Galatasaray High School in 1970, he studied at the Sorbonne. In 1974, he graduated ...

, ''L'ange rouge'' * 2012:

Antonio Muñoz Molina Antonio Muñoz Molina (born 10 January 1956) is a Spanish writer and, since 8 June 1995, a full member of the Royal Spanish Academy. He received the 1991 Premio Planeta, the 2013 Jerusalem Prize, and the 2013 Prince of Asturias Award for litera ...

, ''Dans la grande nuit des temps'' * 2011: Dimitris Stefanakis, ''Jours d'Alexandrie'' * 2010:

Amos Oz Amos Oz ( he, עמוס עוז; born Amos Klausner; 4 May 1939 – 28 December 2018) was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual. He was also a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. From 1967 onwa ...

, ''Scéne de Vies Villageoises'' (Éditions Gallimard) * 2009:

Almudena Grandes María de la Almudena Grandes Hernández (7 May 1960 – 27 November 2021) was a Spanish writer. Author of 13 novels and three short-story collections, her work has been translated into twenty languages and frequently adapted to film. She won t ...

, ''Le Coeur Glacé'' (Lattès) * 2008: Sandro Veronesi, ''Chaos Calme'' (Grasset) * 2007: Claudio Magris, ''À l’Aveugle'' (Gallimard) * 2006:

Orhan Pamuk Ferit Orhan Pamuk (born 7 June 1952) is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, his work has sold over thirteen million books in sixty-three lang ...

, '' Neige'' (Gallimard) * 2005: Antonio Tabucchi, ''Tristano meurt'' (Gallimard) * 2004: Jaume Cabre, ''Sa Seigneurie'' (Christian Bourgois) * 2003: Baltasar Porcel, ''Cabrera, ou l’Empereur des morts'' (Actes Sud) * 2002:

Umberto Eco Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel '' The Name of th ...

, ''

Baudolino ''Baudolino'' is a 2000 novel by Umberto Eco about the adventures of a man named Baudolino in the known and mythical Christian world of the 12th century. ''Baudolino'' was translated into English in 2001 by William Weaver. The novel presented a ...

'' (Grasset) * 2001: Arturo Perez-Reverte, ''Le Cimetière des bateaux sans nom'' (Seuil) * 2000: Yoram Kaniuk, ''Il commanda l’Exodus'' (Fayard) * 1999:

Pietro Citati Pietro Citati (20 February 1930 – 28 July 2022) was an Italian writer and literary critic. He was born in Florence. He wrote critical biographies of Goethe, Alexander the Great, Kafka and Marcel Proust as well as a short memoir on his thirty-ye ...

, ''La Lumière de la nuit'' (Gallimard) * 1998:

Boutros Boutros-Ghali Boutros Boutros-Ghali (; , ar, بطرس بطرس غالي ', ; 14 November 1922 – 16 February 2016) was an Egyptian politician and diplomat who served as the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) from 1992 to 1996. An academic ...

, ''Le Chemin de Jérusalem'' (Fayard) * 1997:

Besnik Mustafaj Besnik Bajram Mustafaj (born 1958) is an Albanian writer and diplomat. Career Mustafaj is a former Albanian ambassador to France. He became 62nd foreign minister A foreign affairs minister or minister of foreign affairs (less commonly minist ...

, ''Le Tambour de papier'' (Actes Sud) * 1996:

Yashar Kemal Yashar may refer to: People Given name *Yashar Ali (born 1979), American journalist and lobbyist *Yashar Aliyev (diplomat) (born 1955), Azerbaijani diplomat and United Nations official *Yashar Aliyev (wrestler) (born ?), Azerbaijani freestyle wrest ...

, ''La Voix du sang'' (Gallimard) * 1995:

Adonis In Greek mythology, Adonis, ; derived from the Canaanite word ''ʼadōn'', meaning "lord".R. S. P. Beekes, ''Etymological Dictionary of Greek'', Brill, 2009, p. 23. was the mortal lover of the goddess Aphrodite. One day, Adonis was gored by a ...

, ''Soleils Seconds'' (Mercure de France) * 1994:

Juan Goytisolo Juan Goytisolo Gay (6 January 1931 – 4 June 2017) was a Spanish poet, essayist, and novelist. He lived in Marrakesh from 1997 until his death in 2017. He was considered Spain's greatest living writer at the beginning of the 21st century, yet ...

, ''Barzak'' (Gallimard) * 1993:

Ismail Kadare Ismail Kadare (; spelled Ismaïl Kadaré in French; born on 28 January 1936) is an Albanian novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter, and playwright. He is a leading international literary figure and intellectual. He focused on poetry until the pu ...

, '' La Pyramide'' (Éditions Fayard) * 1992: Luis Landero, ''Les Jeux tardifs de l’âge mur'' (Éditions Gallimard)

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Description in French literary awards website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Prix Mediterranee French literary awards Awards established in 1984 1984 establishments in France