Fénéon Prize
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The Fénéon Prize established in 1949, is awarded annually to a French-language writer and a visual artist. The prize was established by Fanny Fénéon, the widow of French art critic Félix Fénéon
. She bequeathed the proceeds from the sale of his art collection to the University of Paris
, whose Vice Chancellor chairs the award jury.
Félix Fénéon
Félix Fénéon was a Parisian anarchist and art critic during the late 19th century...
. She bequeathed the proceeds from the sale of his art collection to the University of Paris
University of Paris
The University of Paris was a university located in Paris, France and one of the earliest to be established in Europe. It was founded in the mid 12th century, and officially recognized as a university probably between 1160 and 1250...
, whose Vice Chancellor chairs the award jury.
Recipients
- 1950: Alfred KernAlfred KernAlfred Kern was an American novelist and professor.He served as the Frederick F. Seely Professor of English at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania, from the 1950s until his retirement in the mid-1980s....
for Le jardin perdu - 1951: Louis Derbré, Paul CollombPaul CollombPaul Collomb was a French painter. A native of Ain, he studied art in Paris before World War II. He won the Premier Second Grand Prix de Rome in 1950. Collomb's work has drawn comparisons to that of Maurice Boitel...
& Michel VinaverMichel Vinaver-Works:* Les Coréens * Iphigénie Hotel * A la renverse * 11 septembre 2001 / 11 September 2001 -References:... - 1952: Jack Ottaviano & Marcel Fiorini
- 1953: Alain Robbe-GrilletAlain Robbe-GrilletAlain Robbe-Grillet , was a French writer and filmmaker. He was, along with Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor and Claude Simon, one of the figures most associated with the Nouveau Roman trend. Alain Robbe-Grillet was elected a member of the Académie française on March 25, 2004, succeeding Maurice...
for Les Gommes & Mohamed Dib for La Grande Maison - 1954: Lucien Fleury & Albert MemmiAlbert MemmiAlbert Memmi is a Tunisian Jewish writer and essayist who migrated to France.- Biography :Born in colonial Tunisia,from a Tunisian Jewish mother and a Tunisian-Italian Jewish father, he speaks Hebrew and Tunisian-Arabic...
/ René LaubiesRené LaubiesRené Laubies was a French painter.He is associated with Tachisme and Art Informel but particularly linked to Nuagisme or the "cloudist" group of painters....
, visual arts. - 1955: Huguette Arthur Bertrand
- 1956: Michel ButorMichel Butor-Life and work:Michel Marie François Butor was born in Mons-en-Barœul. He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, graduating in 1947. He has taught in Egypt, Manchester, Salonika, the United States, and Geneva...
for his novel L'Emploi du temps - 1957: Michel Breitman
- 1958: Jacques Bens
- 1959: Armand GattiArmand GattiArmand Gatti is a French playwright, poet, journalist, screenwriter, film-maker and former WW II resistance fighter. His 1963 film, El Otro Cristóbal was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival....
- 1960: Yves Velan for his novel Je
- 1963: Jean GilbertJean GilbertJean Gilbert was a German operetta composer and conductor. His real name was Max Winterfeld. He adopted the name of Jean Gilbert for the production of his first operetta in 1901.Gilbert was born in Hamburg...
for his novel L'Enfant et le harnais - 1964: Jean Parsy
- 1965: Jean RicardouJean RicardouJean Ricardou is a French writer and theorist of the nouveau roman literary movement. To date, only one of his books, Les lieux-dits has been translated into English.-Works:*L'observatoire de Cannes *La prise de Constantinople...
for his novel La Prose de Constantinople - 1967: Michel Moy
- 1968: Patrick ModianoPatrick ModianoPatrick Modiano is a French novelist born 30 July 1945 in Boulogne-Billancourt of a father of Jewish Italian origins and a Belgian mother, Louisa Colpijn . He is a winner of the Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1972, the Prix Goncourt in 1978 for his novel Rue des boutiques obscures...
for his novel La Place de l’ÉtoileLa Place de l’ÉtoileLa Place de l’Étoile is the first novel of the French writer Patrick Modiano. It was published by Gallimard in 1968 and won the Prix Roger-Nimier and Fénéon Prize.... - 1972: Henri Reiter
- 1976: Michel Falempin for L'Écrit fait masse
- 1977: Denis Duparc, pseudonym of Renaud CamusRenaud Camus-Biography:He was born in 1946 in Chamalières, Puy-de-Dôme, in the Auvergne region of France. He spent some time studying in England and traveling in the United States, particularly New York and California...
, for Échange - 1978: Vincent Rougier
- 1979: Jean EchenozJean EchenozJean Echenoz is a French writer.Son of a psychiatrist, Echenoz studied in Rodez, Digne-les-Bains, Lyon, Aix-en-Provence, Marseille and Paris, where he lives since 1970. He published his first book, Le méridien de Greenwich in 1979...
for Le Méridien de Greenwich - 1981: Jean-Marie LaclavetineJean-Marie LaclavetineJean-Marie Laclavetine is a French editor, writer and translator of Italian literature into French.- Biography :...
- 1988: Benoît ConortBenoît ConortBenedict Conort is a French poet and literary critic. He also teaches at the University of Paris X - Nanterre, under the department of modern literature.He serves on the editorial board of the journal where he published numerous poems and reviews.-Awards:...
- 1992: Thierry Laget
- 1993: Éric ChevillardÉric ChevillardÉric Chevillard, is a French novelist. He has won awards for several novels including La nébuleuse du crabe in 1993, which won the Fénéon Prize for Literature....
- 1995: Éric Laurrent
- 1996: Béatrice Leca
- 1997: Linda Le
- 1998: Florent Chopin
- 2000: Laurent Mauvignier
- 2001: BessoraBessoraBessora is a writer born in Brussels. Daughter of a Gabonese diplomat and granddaughter of a Swiss confectioner, she and her works have met with growing acclaim in Europe, the United States and Africa. After a career in international finance in Geneva, she studied anthropology and wrote her first...
- 2002: Tanguy Viel
- 2003: Clémence Boulouque & Laurent Mauvignier
- 2004: Olga Lossky
- 2005: Hafid Aggoune for Les Avenirs
- 2006: Yvan Farron
- 2007: Grégoire Polet
- 2008: Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
- 2010: Pauline Klein for Alice Kahn