Jan Michalski Prize for Literature

Jan Michalski Prize for Literature is a 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 CHF50,000. The authors of finalists are invited for a three-month period of residence in the Maison de l'Ecriture.^[3]

The prize was created by the 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 Switzerland near Lake Geneva.

Winners and shortlist

Blue Ribbon () = winner

2011

Finalists:

• The Blue Fox, Sjón
• The White King, György Dragomán
• Ilustrado, Miguel Syjuco

Other nominated works:

• No Enemies, No Hatred : Selected Essays and Poems, Liu Xiaobo
• Pol Pot’s Smile, Peter Fröberg Idling
• The Solitude Project, Mark Kharitonov
• Godot's Shadow, Antoni Libera

2010

Finalists:

• The Lazarus Project, Aleksandar Hemon
• Wolves of the Crescent Moon, Yousef Al-Mohaimeed
• The Weather Makers, Tim Flannery

Other nominated works:

• HHhH, Laurent Binet
• Celestial Harmonies : A Novel, Peter Esterhazy
• Im Sitzen läuft es sich besser davon, Alois Hotschnig
• Ouïazvimost’ lioubvi, Victor Malakhov
• Claude Monet, une vie au fil de l’eau, Frédéric Martinez
• Der Argentinier, Klaus Merz
• Pokhoronite menia za plintousom, Pavel Sanaev

Notes

External links

• Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, official website
• Prize entry rules