The Mallarmé prize 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

Brive-la-Gaillarde

Brive-la-Gaillarde is a commune of France. It is a sub-prefecture of the Corrèze department. The population of the urban area was 89,260 as of 1999. Although it is by far the biggest commune in Corrèze, the capital is Tulle.-History:...

, in the département of Corrèze

Corrèze

Corrèze is a department in south central France, named after the Corrèze River.The inhabitants of the department are called Corréziens or Corréziennes according to gender.-History:...

, région

Régions of France

France is divided into 27 administrative regions , 22 of which are in Metropolitan France, and five of which are overseas. Corsica is a territorial collectivity , but is considered a region in mainstream usage, and is even shown as such on the INSEE website...

 Limousin

Limousin (région)

Limousin is one of the 27 regions of France. It is composed of three départements: Corrèze, Creuse and the Haute-Vienne.Situated largely in the Massif Central, as of January 1st 2008, the Limousin comprised 740,743 inhabitants on nearly 17 000 km2, making it the second least populated region of...

, 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
2009	Jean Max Tixier Jean Max Tixier -Life:He taught at the Lycée Agricole de Hyères.He is a member of the Editorial Board of journals "Autre Sud" , "Encres Vives", and "Poésie 1 Vagabondages".-Awards:* 1992 Campion-Guillaumet Prize by SGDL, for Etats du lieu...	Parabole des nuées
2008	Jean Ristat Jean Ristat Jean Ristat, is a French poet and writer .-Life:Jean Ristat founded the magazine collection Digraph in 1974, as suggested by his professor of philosophy, Jacques Derrida, which he then put to the recent essay on Plato's Pharmacy .He is currently the director of French Letters, French...	Artémis chasse à courre, le sanglier, le cerf et le loup
2007	Seyhmus Dagtekin Seyhmus Dagtekin Seyhmus Dagtekin is a Kurdish poet and writer. He has lived in Paris since 1987. He writes in Turkish, in Kurdish or in French, and is the author of seven poetry books, and a novel À la source, la nuit...	Juste un pont sans feu
2006	Michel Butor Michel 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...	16 lustres
2005	Hélène Dorion Hélène Dorion Hélène Dorion, OC, CQ is a Canadian poet, and writer.-Life:Dorion taught literature before heading Publisher Noroît from 1991 until 2000...	Ravir : les lieux
2004	Olivier Barbarant Olivier Barbarant -Life:He lived in Paris. Since 1994, he has been living in Saint-Quentin, Picardy, where he teaches school, currently at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux.In 1995, he met Veronique Elzière called Berenice in his books. He adopted Cosette in July 1995.-External links:...	Essais de voix malgré le vent
2003	Jean Portante Jean Portante Jean Portante is a Luxembourg poet, novelist, translator and journalist. He grew up in an Italian immigrant family but finally chose French as the language for his works....	L'étrange langue
2002	Alain Veinstein Alain Veinstein Alain Veinstein is a poet and writer, winner of the Mallarmé prize and a host and producer of radio.-Biography:Since 1978, Alain Veinstein is also the voice of the nights of France Culture with interviews on the program Overnight and broadcasts, Surprised by the night, and surprised by the poetry...	Tout se passe comme si
2000	André Schmitz André Schmitz André Schmitz is an Belgian poet.He has been a teacher since 2008, and lives in the region of Arlon. He has stayed in Central Africa, Lebanon, Quebec, and India.-Awards:In 1987, he won the A. and J...	Incises, Incisions
1999	Benoît Conort Benoît Conort Benedict 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:...	Main de nuit
1998	Mohamed Dib	L'Enfant-Jazz
1997	Marie Etienne Marie Etienne Marie Étienne is a French poet and novelist. In 2009, her book Roi des cent cavaliers and now translated into English as King of a Hundred Horseman won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation...
1996	Franck Venaille Franck Venaille Franck Venaille is a French poet and writer. His poetry is characterized by its expressive power, seeking to bring out the animal side of man, his impulses and anxieties.-Life:...	Descente de l'Escaut
1995	Paul-Louis Rossi Paul-Louis Rossi -Life:His grandparents Queffelec spoke Breton and Cornish. My father was Italian, of the Venice area. He was be shot by the Germans in 1943 in Tübingen, when Rossi was a dozen years old....	Faïences
1992	Jacques Chessex Jacques Chessex Jacques Chessex was a Swiss author and painter.-Biography :Chessex was born in 1934 in Payerne. From 1951 to 1953, he studied in St-Michel College in Fribourg, before undertaking literature studies in Lausanne. In 1953, he co-founded the literary review Pays du Lac in Pully...	Les aveugles du seul regard
1990	André Velter André Velter André Velter , French poet, was born in Signy-l'Abbaye in the Ardennes région and was educated in Charleville and Paris. Having begun his first journeys in 1955 through Europe and the Middle East, he has traveled through Afghanistan, Tibet, China and India...	L'Arbre-seul
1989	Guy Goffette Guy Goffette Guy Goffette is a Belgian-born poet and writer. Goffette published his first book of poems in 1969. Since then he has worked as an editor at the publishing company Gallimard. Goffette's poetry has been compared to Verlaine - the contemporary French poet Yves Bonnefoy remarked Goffette is an heir...	Eloge pour une cuisine de province
1988	Jean Pérol Jean Pérol -Life:He grew up in south-eastern France where he spent his childhood and adolescence. He conducted his graduate studies in Lyon.He left for Japan in 1961.He returned in 1989 before returning to Kabul and Afghanistan for two years....	Asile exil
1987	Venus Khoury-Ghata Vénus Khoury-Ghata Vénus Khoury-Ghata is a Lebanese writer.In 1959, she was Miss Beirut.She married French researcher Jean Ghata. She collaborated on Europe magazine, directed by Louis Aragon, translating it into Arabic with other poets...	Monologue du mort
1986	Henri Meschonnic Henri Meschonnic Henry Meschonnic was a French poet, linguist and theoretician of language, and essayist....	Voyageurs de la voix
1984	Claude Esteban Claude Esteban Claude Esteban was a French poet.Author of a major poetic œuvre of this last half-century, Claude Esteban wrote numerous essays on art and poetry and was the French translator, inter alia, of Jorge Guillén, Octavio Paz, Borges, García Lorca, or again, Quevedo.-Biography:Of Spanish father and...	Conjoncture du corps et du jardin
1981	Lionel Ray Lionel Ray Lionel Ray, , is a French poet, and essayist.-Biography:Born of a Breton father and a Walloon mother, he spent his childhood in the town of Mantes-la-Jolie. He published several collections under his real name, Robert Lorho, Associate of French language and literature professor at the Lycee...	Le corps obscur
1980	Yves de Bayser Yves de Bayser -Life:He was discovered by René Char and contributed to 1946 journals: Fontaine, L’Arche, Botteghe oscure, and Mercure de France.In 1954, Albert Camus published his essays, Églogues du tyran, in his Gallimard collection.-Works:...
1979	Jacques Izoard Jacques Izoard Jacques Izoard was a Belgian poet and essayist. He was born Jacques Delmotte at Liège.-Life:He taught French in secondary technical and vocational education for many years...	Vêtu, dévêtu, libre
1978	Jean Joubert Jean Joubert Jean Joubert is a French novelist, short story writer, and poet.He won the 1978 Prix Mallarmé for Poems: 1955–1975...	Les Poèmes - 1955-1975
1976	Andrée Chédid Andrée Chedid Andrée Chedid was a French poet and novelist of Lebanese descent.-Life:Chedid was born in Cairo on 20 March 1920. When she was ten, she was sent to a boarding school, where she learned English and French. At fourteen, she left for Europe. She then returned to Cairo to go...	Fraternité de la parole et Cérémonial de la violence
1939	Jean Follain Jean Follain Jean Follain, was a French author, poet and corporate lawyer. In the early days of his career he was a member of the "Sagesse" group. Follain was a friend of Max Jacob, André Salmon, Jean Paulhan, Pierre Pussy, Armen Lubin, and Pierre Reverdy...

Académie Mallarmé

The Académie Mallarmé (Mallarmé Academy) was founded in 1937. It is a French not-for-profit association (known in French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 as an association loi de 1901, a "1901 law association"), founded in commemoration of Stéphane Mallarmé

Stéphane Mallarmé

Stéphane Mallarmé , whose real name was Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of the early 20th century, such as Dadaism, Surrealism, and Futurism.-Biography:Stéphane...

, 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

Alain Bosquet

Alain Bosquet, born Anatole Bisk , was a French poet.-Life:In 1925, his family moved to Brussels and he studied at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, then at the Sorbonne....

. 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

Lionel Ray

Lionel Ray, , is a French poet, and essayist.-Biography:Born of a Breton father and a Walloon mother, he spent his childhood in the town of Mantes-la-Jolie. He published several collections under his real name, Robert Lorho, Associate of French language and literature professor at the Lycee...

, Claude-Michel Cluny, François Montmaneix, Robert Sabatier

Robert Sabatier

Robert Sabatier was born on the 17th of August 1923 in Paris. He is a French poet and writer.He has written numerous novels, essays and books of aphorisms and poems. He was elected to the Académie Goncourt in 1971, as well as to the Académie Mallarme...

, Jean Rousselot, Michel Deguy, Charles Dobzinski, Philippe Jones, Jean-Michel Maulpoix

Jean-Michel Maulpoix

Jean-Michel Maulpoix was born on November 11, 1952 in Montbéliard, Doubs.The author of more than twenty volumes of French poetry and of several volumes of essays and criticism, he teaches modern French literature at the University Paris X Nanterre and is the director of the quarterly literary...

, Henri Meschonnic

Henri Meschonnic

Henry Meschonnic was a French poet, linguist and theoretician of language, and essayist....

, Pierre Oster, Vénus Khoury-Ghata

Vénus Khoury-Ghata

Vénus Khoury-Ghata is a Lebanese writer.In 1959, she was Miss Beirut.She married French researcher Jean Ghata. She collaborated on Europe magazine, directed by Louis Aragon, translating it into Arabic with other poets...

; and the foreign correspondents are Ismaël Kadaré, Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...

 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

Stéphane Mallarmé

Stéphane Mallarmé , whose real name was Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of the early 20th century, such as Dadaism, Surrealism, and Futurism.-Biography:Stéphane...

, which is now in the public domain (since he died more than a hundred years ago).

External links

Foire du livre on the official Brives-la-Gaillarde website