Like every Thursday, the French Academy meets under the dome of the Institut de France. She thus established her literary prize list of the year. There are 67 distinctions crowning authors, playwrights, novelists, critics, essayists, poets, philosophers, historians… Among them, in the Grands Prix category:
•Daniel Pennac was awarded the Grand Prize for Literature, for all of his work;
•Jean-Christophe Buisson, deputy editor of Figaro magazine, receives the Henri Gal Literature Grand Prize (literary prize of the Institut de France), for all of his work;
•Pierre Adrian, author of What those who are far away come back, (Gallimard), wins the Grand Prix Michel Déon;
•Sibylle Grimbert is the winner of the Maurice Genevoix French Academy Prize for Le Dernier des siens, (Anne Carrière);
•Jacques Roubaud won the Grand Prix for Poetry, for all of his poetic work;
•Georges Vigarello receives the Grand Prix Gobert, “for all of his work and in particular his latest work Une histoire des loins. Between real and imaginary, (Threshold);
•Yves Harte for The Hand on the Heart, Claire Riffard for Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, Clémence Imbert, for Book Covers and Yuriko Jackall, for Jean-Baptiste Greuze and his expression heads. Fortune of a Kind each receive the Academy Award;
•Director Cédric Klapisch wins the René Clair Cinema Prize for all of his cinematographic work, (let us mention: The Spanish Inn, The Russian Dolls, What binds us…). The singer La Grande Sophie obtains the Great Medal of French Song for all of her songs.
Similarly, the academicians, among their 67 distinctions, awarded poetry prizes and in particular the Paul Verlaine prize to Bernard Chambaz for E soon muet, (Flammarion).
We also note among the prizes for literature and philosophy that were awarded: the Emile Faguet prize to Sébastien Lapaque, writer and critic at Le Figaro littéraire, for Living and Dying with Georges Bernanos; the Louis Barthou prize to Philippe Bordas for Le Célibataire absolu. For Carlo Emilio Gadda; the Anna de Noailles prize to Clémentine Dabadie, for Dog; the Georges Dumezil Prize to Henriette Walter, linguist, for Two Thousand Words to Say the World and the Roland de Jouvenel Prize to the writer Denis Grozdanovitch, for The Glory of Small Things.
Finally, among the support prizes for literary creation, we note the names of Kerwin Spire who won the Henri de Régnier prize after Mr. Romain Gary. Writer-director and that of the writer Miguel Bonnefoy, winner of the Amic prize, after The Inventor.
The French Academy specifies at the conclusion of this list that its Grand Prix du Novel will, as usual, be awarded in the fall, in this case on October 26.
