Jan Michalski Prize for Literature (French: Prix Jan Michalski) is a Swiss literary prize for any work of fiction or non-fiction published anywhere in the world in any language.[1][2] It is meant to recognize authors from around the world and world literature in general. The jury is multicultural and multilingual in composition.
The award was launched October 2009[1] and the first winner was announced November 2010. The winner receives CHF 50,000. The authors of finalists are invited for a three-month period of residence in the Maison de l'écriture.[3]
The prize was created by the Jan Michalski Foundation for Writing and Literature (Fondation Jan Michalski pour l’Ecriture et la Littérature), founded in 2004 at the initiative of Vera Michalski-Hoffmann in memory of her husband Jan Michalski.[4] It is located in Montricher, Switzerland.[5]
Honorees
edit| Year | Author | Original title | English, French or German translation | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 |   Aleksandar Hemon
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The Lazarus Project | Winner | [6] | |
  Yousef Al-Mohaimeed
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فخاخ الرائحة | Wolves of the Crescent Moon | Finalists | ||
 Tim Flannery
|
The Weather Makers | ||||
 Laurent Binet
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HHhH | Nominee | |||
 Péter Esterházy
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Harmonia cælestis | Celestial Harmonies | |||
 Alois Hotschnig
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Im Sitzen läuft es sich besser davon | ||||
 Viktor Malakhov
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Уязвимость любви | ||||
| Frédéric Martinez
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Claude Monet, une vie au fil de l’eau | ||||
 Klaus Merz
|
Der Argentinier | ||||
 Pavel Sanaev
|
Похороните меня за плинтусом | ||||
| 2011 | György Dragomán
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A fehér király | The White King | Winner | [7] |
 Miguel Syjuco
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Ilustrado | Finalists | |||
 Sjón
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Skugga-Baldur | The Blue Fox | |||
 Liu Xiaobo
|
— | No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems | Nominee | ||
 Peter Fröberg Idling
|
Pol Pots leende | Pol Pot’s Smile | |||
| Mark Kharitonov
|
Проект Одиночество | ||||
 Antoni Libera
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Godot i jego cień | ||||
| 2012 |  Julia Lovell
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The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China | Winner | [8] | |
| Martin Pollack
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Kaiser von Amerika: Die große Flucht aus Galizien | Finalists | |||
| Timothy Snyder
|
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin | ||||
| Philippe Cassard
|
Franz Schubert | Nominee | |||
| Patrick Deville
|
Kampuchéa | ||||
 Mark Gevisser
|
Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred | ||||
| Donald Ray Pollock
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The Devil All the Time | ||||
| Maria Rybakova
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Острый нож для мягкого сердца | Couteau tranchant pour un cœur tendre | |||
| Bruno Smolarz
|
Hokusaï aux doigts d’encre | ||||
| 2013 |  Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
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زوال کلنل | The Colonel | Winner | [9][10] |
| Serge Gruzinski
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L’aigle et le Dragon: Démesure européenne et mondialisation au XVIe siècle | Finalists | [11] | ||
| Steve Sem-Sandberg
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De fattiga i Łódź | The Emperor of Lies | |||
| Robert Macfarlane
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The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot | Second selection | |||
 Uday Prakash
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— | The Walls of Delhi | |||
| Janusz Głowacki
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Good night, Dżerzi | First selection | |||
| Chan Koonchung
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盛世：中國，2013年 | The Fat Years | |||
| Charu Nivedita
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ஸீரோ டிகிரி | Zero Degree | |||
| Tiphaine Samoyault
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Bête de cirque | ||||
 Enrique Vila-Matas
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Chet Baker piensa en su arte | ||||
| Chris Ware
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Building Stories | ||||
| 2014 | Serhiy Zhadan
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Ворошиловград | Voroshylovhrad | Winner | [12][13] |
| Mark Gevisser
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Dispatcher: Lost and Found in Johannesburg | Finalists | |||
| Marci Shore
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The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe | ||||
| Rana Mitter
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China’s War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival | Second selection | |||
| Jaume Cabré
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Confiteor | Confessions | |||
 Maxime Raymond Bock
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Atavismes | Atavisms | First selection | ||
| Camille de Toledo
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Oublier, trahir puis disparaître | ||||
| Paul Harding
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Enon | ||||
| Fanny Howe
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Second Childhood | ||||
| Wojciech Nowicki
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Salki | ||||
 Dragan Velikić
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Bonavia | ||||
  Najem Wali
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ملائكة الجنوب | Engel des Südens | |||
| 2015 | Mark Thompson
|
Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kiš | Winner | [14] | |
| Navid Kermani
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Zwischen Koran und Kafka: West-östliche Erkundungen | Between Quran and Kafka: West-Eastern Inquiries | Finalists | ||
| Najem Wali
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بغداد مالبورو، من أجل برادلي مانينك | Bagdad Marlboro: Ein Roman für Bradley Manning | |||
| Jean-Noël Orengo
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La Fleur du Capital | Second selection | |||
 Ari Shavit
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My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel | ||||
| Philipp Ther
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Die neue Ordnung auf dem alten Kontinent: Eine Geschichte des neoliberalen Europa | Europe since 1989: A History | First selection | ||
 Lucian Dan Teodorovici
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Matei Brunul | L’histoire de Bruno Matei | |||
| Frédéric Badré
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La grande santé | ||||
| Valentin Retz
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Noir parfait | ||||
| Hermione Lee
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Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life | ||||
| Lisa Jarnot
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Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus: A Biography | ||||
| Gansel Mireille
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Traduire comme transhumer | Translation as Transhumance | |||
| 2016 |  Georgi Gospodinov
|
Физика на тъгата | Physics of Sorrow | Winner | [15][16] |
| Dževad Karahasan
|
Što pepeo priča | The Solace of the Night Sky | Finalists | ||
| Aatish Taseer
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The Way Things Were | ||||
| Julian Barnes
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Levels of Life | Second selection | |||
| Navid Kermani
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Ungläubiges Staunen: Über das Christentum | Wonder Beyond Belief: On Christianity | |||
| Ada Limón
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Bright Dead Things | First selection | |||
 Alberto Mangel
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Curiosity | ||||
| Iván Sándor
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Az éjszaka mélyén, 1914 | Husar in der Hölle, 1914 | |||
 Andrea Bajani
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La vita non è in ordine alfabetico | ||||
| Fariba Hachtroudi
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Le colonel et l’appât 455 | The Man Who Snapped His Fingers | |||
| Stefan Banz
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Louis Michel Eilshemius: Peer of Poet-Painters | ||||
| Patrick McGuinness
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Poetry and Radical Politics in fin de siècle France: From Anarchism to Action française | ||||
| Víctor del Árbol
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Un millón de gotas | A Million Drops | |||
| Ulrike Guérot
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Warum Europa eine Republik werden muss! Eine politische Utopie | Why Europe Should Become a Republic! A Political Utopia | |||
| 2017 | Thierry Wolton
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Une histoire mondiale du communisme | Winner | [17] | |
| Lawrence Liang et al.
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Invisible Libraries | Finalists | |||
| Liao Yiwu
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輪迴的螞蟻 | Die Wiedergeburt der Ameisen | |||
| Paul Kalanithi
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When Breath Becomes Air | Second selection | |||
| Wioletta Greg
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Guguły | Swallowing Mercury | |||
| Yuriy Vynnychuk
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Танґо смерті | Tango of Death | First selection | ||
| Eugénie Paultre
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L’état actuel des choses | ||||
 Alvar González-Palacios
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Solo ombre: Silhouettes storiche, letterarie e mondane | ||||
| Peter Frankopan
|
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World | ||||
| 2018 | Olga Tokarczuk
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Księgi Jakubowe | The Books of Jacob | Winner | [18] |
| Yuval Noah Harari
|
ההיסטוריה של המחר | Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow | Finalists | ||
| Jean Rolin
|
Le traquet kurde | ||||
| Norman Ohler
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Der totale Rausch: Drogen im Dritten Reich | Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich | Second selection | ||
| Patrick McGuinness
|
Other People’s Countries: A Journey into Memory | ||||
| Maggie Nelson
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The Argonauts | First selection | |||
| Virginie Despentes
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Vernon Subutex | ||||
| George Szirtes
|
Bad Machine | ||||
| Preti Taneja
|
We That Are Young | ||||
| 2019 | Zeruya Shalev
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כאב | Pain | Winner | [19] |
| Francesca Melandri
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Sangue giusto | Finalists | |||
 Patrik Ouředník
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La fin du monde n’aurait pas eu lieu | The End of the World Might Not Have Taken Place | |||
| Antonio Iturbe
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La bibliotecaria de Auschwitz | The Librarian of Auschwitz | Second selection | ||
| Morgan Sportès
|
Le ciel ne parle pas | First selection | |||
  Long Litt Woon
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Stien tilbake til livet: Om sopp og sorg | The Way Through the Woods: Of Mushrooms and Mourning | |||
| 2020 |  Mia Couto with David Brookshaw (trans.)
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As Areias do Imperador | Sands of the Emperor | Winner | [20][21] |
| Fran Ross
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Oreo | Finalists | |||
| Philippe Sands
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East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity | ||||
| Érik Orsenna
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Briser en nous la mer gelée | Second selection | |||
 Bernard Quiriny
|
Vies conjugales | ||||
| Roland Schimmelpfennig
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An einem klaren, eiskalten Januarmorgen zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts | One Clear, Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century | First selection | ||
| Vigdis Hjorth
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Arv og miljø | Will and Testament | |||
| Wojciech Nowicki
|
Cieśniny | ||||
| Nastassja Martin
|
Croire aux fauves | In the Eye of the Wild | |||
| Yurii Andrukhovych
|
Коханці юстиції | Die Lieblinge der Justiz | |||
 António Damásio
|
The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures | ||||
| Catherine Meurisse
|
La Légèreté | Lightness | |||
| Sergei Lebedev
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Предел забвения | Oblivion | |||
| Sorj Chalandon
|
Le jour d’avant | ||||
 Viet Thanh Nguyen
|
The Sympathizer | ||||
| Ruth Zylberman
|
209 rue Saint-Maur, Paris Xe: Autobiographie d’un immeuble | The Department of Missing Persons | |||
| 2021 | Memorial International (Alena Kozlova, Nikolai Mikhailov, Irina Ostrovskaya, and Irina Scherbakova) with Georgia Thomson (trans.)
|
Знак не сотрется: Судьбы остарбайтеров в письмах, воспоминаниях и устных рассказах | OST: Letters, Memoirs and Stories from Ostarbeiter in Nazi Germany | Winner | [22] |
| Frank Huyler
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White Hot Light: Twenty-five Years in Emergency Medicine | Finalists | |||
 Eduardo Halfon with Lisa Dillman and Daniel Hahn (trans.)
|
Duelo | Mourning | |||
| Sophy Roberts
|
The Lost Pianos of Siberia | Second selection | |||
| Sergei Lebedev with Antonina W. Bouis (trans.)
|
Дебютант | Untraceable | |||
| Daniel Mendelsohn
|
Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate | First selection | |||
| Mário Cláudio
|
Tríptico da Salvação | ||||
| Ksenia Buksha
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Открывается внутрь | ||||
| Maria Stepanova
|
Памяти памяти | In Memory of Memory | |||
| Judith Schalansky
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Verzeichnis einiger Verluste | An Inventory of Losses | |||
| Édouard Louis
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Qui a tué mon père | Who Killed My Father | |||
| Mathieu Sapin
|
Gérard: Cinq années dans les pattes de Depardieu | Gérard: Five Years with Depardieu | |||
| Lisa Mandel
|
Une année exemplaire | ||||
| Patrice Jean
|
L’homme surnuméraire | ||||
| Claude Hunzinger
|
Les grands cerfs | ||||
 Carmen Boullosa
|
El libro de Ana | The Book of Anna | |||
| 2022 |  Taina Tervonen
|
Les fossoyeuses | Winner | [23] | |
 Eliane Brum with Diane Grosklaus Whitty (trans.)
|
A vida que ninguém vê | The Collector of Leftover Souls: Dispatches from Brazil | Finalists | ||
 Untold Narratives
|
— | My Pen is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women | |||
| Perrine Lamy-Quique
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Dans leur nuit | Second selection | |||
| Laurent Binet
|
Civilizations | ||||
 Nathacha Appanah
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Le ciel par-dessus le toit | The Sky Above the Roof | First selection | ||
| M. John Harrison
|
The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again | ||||
| Georgi Gospodinov
|
Времеубежище | Time Shelter | |||
| Cat Jarman
|
River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads | ||||
| Tanguy Viel
|
La fille qu’on appelle | The Girl You Call | |||
| Stéphanie Coste
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Le passeur | ||||
| 2023 |  Karina Sainz Borgo
|
El Tercer País | Winner | [24] | |
| Suzanne Simard
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Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest | Finalists | |||
 Hamid Ismailov with Donald Rayfield (trans.)
|
Manaschi | ||||
| Emanuele Trevi
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Due vite | Second selection | |||
| Stefan Hertmans with David McKay (trans.)
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De opgang | The Ascent | |||
| Hélène Frappat
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Trois femmes disparaissent | First selection | |||
| Michel Houellebecq
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Anéantir | Annihilation | |||
| Eva Baltasar
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Boulder | ||||
| Anna Badkhen
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Bright Unbearable Reality | ||||
| Agustín Fernández Mallo
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El libro de todos los amores | The Book of All Loves | |||
| Sara Stridsberg
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Kärlekens Antarktis | The Antarctica of Love | |||
| Aslak Nore
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Havets kirkegård | The Sea Cemetery | |||
 Sally Hayden
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My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route | ||||
| Sigrid Nunez
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What Are You Going Through? | ||||
| 2024 | Kate Beaton
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Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands | Winner | [25] | |
| Mathieu Belazi
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Attaquer la terre et le soleil | Finalists | |||
| Irene Solà
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Canto jo i la muntanya balla | When I Sing, Mountains Dance | |||
 Iman Mersal
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في أثر عنايات الزيات | Traces of Enayat | Second selection | ||
| Fabienne Radi
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Une autobiographie de Nina Childress | ||||
 Carlos Fonseca
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Austral | First selection | |||
| Sylvain Tesson
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Avec les fées | ||||
 Byung-Chul Han
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Infokratie: Digitalisierung und die Krise der Demokratie | Infocracy: Digitization and the Crisis of Democracy | |||
| Yasmina Reza
|
James Brown mettait des bigoudis | ||||
| Cecile Pin
|
Wandering Souls | ||||
| Himash Matar
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My Friends | ||||
| Fernanda Melchor
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Páradais | Paradais | |||
| Gaëlle Obiégly
|
Sans valeur | ||||
| Adam Thirlwell
|
The Future Future | ||||
Notes
edit- ^ a b "Prize for Literature, Press Release of launch" (PDF). Foundation Jan Michalski. November 2009. Retrieved November 23, 2012.
- ^ "Jan Michalski Prize for Literature". BookTrade.info. June 5, 2010. Archived from the original on March 8, 2012. Retrieved November 23, 2012.
- ^ "Maison de l'Ecriture". Foundation Jan Michalski. Retrieved November 23, 2012.
- ^ "Jan Michalski Foundation, background". Foundation Jan Michalski. Retrieved November 23, 2012.
- ^ Domhnall O'Sullivan (August 26, 2017). "Treehouses of language: inside a Swiss literature foundation". swissinfo.ch. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
- ^ "2010". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
- ^ "2011". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
- ^ "2012". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
- ^ Sal Robinson (November 14, 2013). "Mahmoud Dowlatabadi wins the 2013 Jan Michalski Prize". Melville House Publishing. Archived from the original on December 7, 2013. Retrieved November 13, 2013.
- ^ "2013". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
- ^ "Awards: Jan Michalski Prize for Literature". Shelf Awareness. August 6, 2013. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
- ^ Brack, Joëlle (28 November 2014). "Prix Jan Michalski 2014ImprimerPartager par e-mail avec un ami". Payot Libraire (in French). Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ^ "2014". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
- ^ "2015". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
- ^ "Reading with... Georgi Gospodinov". Shelf Awareness. May 18, 2022. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
- ^ "2016". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
- ^ "2017". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
- ^ "2018". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
- ^ "2019". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
- ^ Anderson, Porter (2020-12-11). "Switzerland's 2020 Jan Michalski Prize Goes to Mia Couto". Publishing Perspectives. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
- ^ "2020". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
- ^ "2021". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
- ^ "2022". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
- ^ "Literature Prize". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
- ^ "Literature Prize". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2024-12-10.
External links
edit- Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, official website
- Prize entry rules
