Jan Michalski Prize for Literature

Given by Fondation Jan Michalski pour l’Ecriture et la Littérature

Other Names: The Jan Michalski Prize for Literature
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The Jan Michalski Prize for Literature is attributed each year by the Foundation to crown a work of world literature. An original feature of the Prize is its multicultural nature. It is open to show more authors from the world over and is intended to contribute to their international recognition. The Prize will be awarded for works of fiction or non fiction, irrespective of the language in which it is written. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (16), Second Selection (5), Finalist (26), First Selection (32)
Years:
All, 2023 (5), 2022 (3), 2021 (3), 2020 (5), 2019 (3), 2018 (3), 2017 (3), 2016 (3), 2015 (3), 2014 (10), 2013 (11), 2012 (9), 2011 (7), 2010 (10)

Winner 16

WorkYear
Les Fossoyeuses by Taina Tervonen2022
OST: Letters, Memoirs and Stories from Ostarbeiter in Nazi Germany by Memorial International2021
The Drinker of Horizons by Mia Couto2020
The Sword and the Spear: A Novel by Mia Couto2020
Woman of the Ashes by Mia Couto2020
Pain by Zeruya Shalev2019
The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk2018
Une histoire mondiale du communisme : essaid'investigation historique by Thierry Wolton2017
The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov2016
Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kis by Mark Thompson2015
Voroshilovgrad by Serhiy Zhadan2014
The Colonel by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi2013
The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China by Julia Lovell2012
The White King by György Dragomán2011
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon2010
The Braid by Laetitia Colombani

Second Selection 5

WorkYear
De opgang roman by Stefan Hertmans2023
Manaschi by Hamid Ismailov2023
Het derde land by Karina Sainz Borgo2023
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard2023
Due vite by Emanuele Trevi2023

Finalist 26

WorkYear
My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women by 18 Afghan Women2022
The Collector of Leftover Souls: Field Notes on Brazil's Everyday Insurrections by Eliane Brum2022
Mourning by Eduardo Halfon2021
White Hot Light: Twenty-Five Years in Emergency Medicine by Frank Huyler2021
Oreo by Fran Ross2020
East West Street by Philippe Sands2020
Sangue giusto by Francesca Melandri2019
The End of the World Might Not Have Taken Place by Patrik Ouředník2019
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari2018
Le Traquet kurde by Jean Rolin2018
Invisible Libraries by Lawrence Liang2017
Die Wiedergeburt der Ameisen: Roman by Liao Yiwu2017
Der Trost des Nachthimmels: Roman by Dzevad Karahasan2016
The Way Things Were: A Novel by Aatish Taseer2016
Between Quran & Kafka: West-Eastern Affinities by Navid Kermani2015
Bagdad Marlboro: Roman by Najem Wali2015
Lost and Found in Johannesburg: A Memoir by Mark Gevisser2014
The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe by Marci Shore2014
The Eagle and the Dragon: Globalization and European Dreams of Conquest in China and America in the Sixteenth Century by Serge Gruzinski2013
The Emperor of Lies by Steve Sem-Sandberg2013
Cesarz Ameryki. Wielka ucieczka z Galicji by Martin Pollack2012
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder2012
The Blue Fox by Sjón2011
Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco2011
Wolves of the Crescent Moon by Yousef Al-Mohaimeed2010
The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth by Tim Flannery2010

First Selection 32

WorkYear
Atavisms (Canadian Literature) by Raymond Bock2014
Confessions by Jaume Cabré2014
Enon by Paul Harding2014
Second Childhood: Poems by Fanny Howe2014
Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945 by Rana Mitter2014
Salki by Wojciech Nowicki2014
Bonavia by Dragan Velikic2014
The Fat Years by Koon Chung Chan2013
Good night, Dżerzi by Janusz Głowacki2013
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane2013
Zero Degree by Charu Nivedita2013
The Walls of Delhi: Three Stories by Uday Prakash2013
Bête de cirque by Tiphaine Samoyault2013
Chet Baker piensa en su arte / Chet Baker Thinks About his Art: Relatos selectos / Selected Stories (Spanish Edition) by Enrique Vila-Matas2013
Building Stories by Chris Ware2013
Franz Schubert by Philippe Cassard2012
Kampuchéa by Patrick Deville2012
Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred by Mark Gevisser2012
The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock2012
Couteau tranchant pour un coeur tendre: roman tango sur l'amour passion et la jalousie meurtrière by Mariâ Aleksandrovna Rybakova2012
Hokusaï aux doigts d'encre by Bruno Smolarz2012
Pol Pots leende : om en svensk resa genom röda khmerernas Kambodja by Peter Fröberg Idling2011
Projet solitude by Mark Kharitonov2011
Godot i jego cień by Antoni Libera2011
No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems by Xiaobo Liu2011
HHhH by Laurent Binet2010
Celestial Harmonies by Péter Esterházy2010
Im Sitzen läuft es sich besser davon by Alois Hotschnig2010
Ui︠a︡zvimostʹ li︠u︡bvi by malakhovva2010
Claude Monet une vie au fil de l'eau by Frederic Martínez2010
Der Argentinier: Mit drei Pinzelzeichnungen von Heinz Egger by Klaus Merz2010
Bury Me Behind the Baseboard by Pavel Sanaev2010

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The Jan Michalski Prize for Literature is attributed each year by the Foundation to crown a work of world literature. An original feature of the Prize is its multicultural nature. It is open to authors from the world over and is intended to contribute to their international recognition. The Prize will be awarded for works of fiction or non fiction, irrespective of the language in which it is written. (English, Member-written)
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 (English, Member-written)
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. It is meant to recognize authors from around the world and world literature in general. (English, Member-written)

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