Mallarmé prize

The Mallarmé prize (Prix de poésie de l’Académie Mallarmé, in French) 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.

The prize is awarded on the occasion of the book fair which takes place in Brive-la-Gaillarde, in the département of Corrèze, région Limousin, 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:

Year Author Published work nominated
2011 Annie Salager Travaux de lumière
2010 Robert Marteau Le Temps ordinaire
2009 Jean Max Tixier Parabole des nuées
2008 Jean Ristat Artémis chasse à courre, le sanglier, le cerf et le loup
2007 Seyhmus Dagtekin Juste un pont sans feu
2006 Michel Butor 16 lustres
2005 Hélène Dorion Ravir : les lieux
2004 Olivier Barbarant Essais de voix malgré le vent
2003 Jean Portante L'étrange langue
2002 Alain Veinstein Tout se passe comme si
2000 André Schmitz Incises, Incisions
1999 Benoît Conort Main de nuit
1998 Mohamed Dib L'Enfant-Jazz
1997 Marie Etienne
1996 Franck Venaille Descente de l'Escaut
1995 Paul-Louis Rossi Faïences
1992 Jacques Chessex Les aveugles du seul regard
1990 André Velter L'Arbre-seul
1989 Guy Goffette Eloge pour une cuisine de province
1988 Jean Pérol Asile exil
1987 Venus Khoury-Ghata Monologue du mort
1986 Henri Meschonnic Voyageurs de la voix
1984 Claude Esteban Conjoncture du corps et du jardin
1981 Lionel Ray Le corps obscur
1980 Yves de Bayser
1979 Jacques Izoard Vêtu, dévêtu, libre
1978 Jean Joubert Les Poèmes - 1955-1975
1976 Andrée Chédid Fraternité de la parole et Cérémonial de la violence
1939 Jean Follain

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, 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. 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; and the foreign correspondents are Ismaël Kadaré, Seamus Heaney 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 Stéphane Mallarmé, which is now in the public domain (since he died more than a hundred years ago).

External links

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the French Wikipedia.