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.[1][2] It is meant to recognize authors from around the world and world literature in general. The jury is multicultural and multilingual in composition.

The award was launched October 2009[1] and the first winner was announced November 2010. The winner receives SFr 50,000. The authors of finalists are invited for a three-month period of residence in the Maison de l'écriture.[3]

The prize was created by the Jan Michalski Foundation for Writing and Literature (Fondation Jan Michalski pour l’Ecriture et la Littérature), founded in 2004 at the initiative of Vera Michalski-Hoffmann in memory of her husband Jan Michalski.[4] It is located in Montricher, Switzerland.[5]

Honorees

Year Author Title Result Ref.
2010 Aleksandar Hemon The Lazarus Project Winner [6]
Yousef Al-Mohaimeed Wolves of the Crescent Moon Finalist
Tim Flannery The Weather Makers
Laurent Binet HHhH Nominee
Péter Esterházy Celestial Harmonies
Alois Hotschnig Im Sitzen läuft es sich besser davon
Victor Malakhov Ouïazvimost' lioubvi
Frédéric Martinez Claude Monet, une vie au fil de l'eau
Klaus Merz Der Argentinier
Pavel Sanaev Pokhoronite menia za plintousom
2011 György Dragomán The White King Winner [7]
Miguel Syjuco Ilustrado Finalist
Sjón The Blue Fox
Liu Xiaobo No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems Nominee
Peter Fröberg Idling Pol Pot's Smile
Mark Kharitonov The Solitude Project
György Dragomán Godot's Shadow
2012 Julia Lovell The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China Winner [8]
Martin Pollack Kaiser von Amerika: Die grosse Flucht aus Galizien Finalist
Timothy Snyder Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Philippe Cassard Franz Schubert Nominee
Patrick Deville Kampuchéa
Mark Gevisser Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred
Donald Ray Pollock The Devil All The Time
Maria Rybakova Poignard perçant pour un coeur tendre
Bruno Smolarz Hokusaï aux doigts d'encre
2013 Mahmoud Dowlatabadi The Colonel Winner [9][10]
Serge Gruzinski L'aigle et le Dragon Finalist [11]
Steve Sem-Sandberg The Emperor of Lies
Robert Macfarlane The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
Uday Prakash The Walls of Delhi
Janusz Głowacki Good night, Dzerzi! Nominee
Chan Koonchung The Fat Years
Charu Nivedita Zero Degree
Tiphaine Samoyault Bête de cirque
Enrique Vila-Matas Chet Baker piensa en su arte
Chris Ware Building Stories
2014 Serhiy Zhadan Voroshylovhrad Winner [12][13]
Mark Gevisser Dispatcher: Lost and Found in Johannesburg Finalist
Marci Shore The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe
Rana Mitter China's War with Japan: The Struggle for Survival Nominee
Jaume Cabré Confiteor
Raymond Bock Atavismes
Camille de Toledo Oublier, trahir puis disparaître
Paul Harding Enon
Fanny Howe Second Childhood
Wojciech Nowicki Salki
Dragan Velikić Bonavia
Najem Wali Engel des Südens
2015 Mark Thompson Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kiš Winner [14]
Navid Kermani Between Quran and Kafka: West-Eastern Inquiries Finalist
Najem Wali Bagdad Marlboro: Ein Roman für Bradley Manning
Jean-Noël Orengo La Fleur du Capital Second selection
Ari Shavit My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
2016 Georgi Gospodinov Physics of Sorrow Winner [15][16]
Dzevad Karahasan The Solace of the Night Sky Finalist
Aatish Taseer The Way Things Were
Julian Barnes Levels of Life Second selection
Navid Kermani Ungläubiges Staunen. Über das Christentum
2017 Thierry Wolton Une histoire mondiale du communisme Winner [17]
Lawrence Liang et al. Invisible Libraries Finalist
Liao Yiwu Die Wiedergeburt der Ameisen
Paul Kalanithi When Breath Becomes Air Second selection
Wioletta Greg Swallowing Mercury
2018 Olga Tokarczuk The Books of Jacob Winner [18]
Yuval Noah Harari Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow Finalist
Jean Rolin Le traquet kurde
Norman Ohler Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich Second selection
Patrick McGuinness Other People's Countries: A Journey into Memory
2019 Zeruya Shalev Pain Winner [19]
Francesca Melandri Sangue Giusto Finalist
Patrik Ouředník La fin du monde n'aurait pas eu lieu
Antonio Iturbe The Librarian of Auschwitz First selection
Morgan Sportès Le ciel ne parle pas
Long Litt Woon The Way Through The Woods: Of Mushrooms and Mourning
2020 Mia Couto with David Brookshaw (trans.) Sands of the Emperor Winner [20][21]
Fran Ross Oreo Finalist
Philippe Sands East West Street
Erik Orsenna Briser en nous la mer gelée Second selection
Bernard Quiriny Vies conjugales
2021 Memorial International (Alena Kozlova, Nikolai Mikhailov, Irina Ostrovskaya, and Irina Scherbakova) with Georgia Thomson (trans.) OST: Letters, Memoirs and Stories from Ostarbeiter in Nazi Germany Winner [22]
Frank Huyler White Hot Light: Twenty-five Years in Emergency Medicine Finalist
Eduardo Halfon with Lisa Dillman and Daniel Hahn (trans.) Mourning
Sophy Roberts The Lost Pianos of Siberia Second selection
Sergei Lebedev with Antonina W. Bouis (trans.) Untraceable
2022 Taina Tervonen Les fossoyeuses Winner [23]
Eliane Brum with Diane Grosklaus Whitty (trans.) The Collector of Leftover Souls: Dispatches from Brazil Finalist
Untold Narratives My Pen is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women
Perrine Lamy-Quique Dans leur nuit Second selection
Laurent Binet Civilizations
2023 Karina Sainz Borgo El Tercer País Second selection [24]
Suzanne Simard Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest
Emanuele Trevi Due vite
Hamid Ismaïlov with Donald Rayfield (trans.) Manaschi
Stefan Hertmans with David McKay (trans.) The Ascent

Notes

  1. ^ a b "Prize for Literature, Press Release of launch" (PDF). Foundation Jan Michalski. November 2009. Retrieved November 23, 2012.
  2. ^ "Jan Michalski Prize for Literature". BookTrade.info. June 5, 2010. Archived from the original on March 8, 2012. Retrieved November 23, 2012.
  3. ^ "Maison de l'Ecriture". Foundation Jan Michalski. Retrieved November 23, 2012.
  4. ^ "Jan Michalski Foundation, background". Foundation Jan Michalski. Retrieved November 23, 2012.
  5. ^ Domhnall O'Sullivan (August 26, 2017). "Treehouses of language: inside a Swiss literature foundation". swissinfo.ch. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
  6. ^ "2010". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  7. ^ "2011". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  8. ^ "2012". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  9. ^ Sal Robinson (November 14, 2013). "Mahmoud Dowlatabadi wins the 2013 Jan Michalski Prize". Melville House Publishing. Retrieved November 13, 2013.
  10. ^ "2013". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  11. ^ "Awards: Jan Michalski Prize for Literature". Shelf Awareness. August 6, 2013. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  12. ^ Brack, Joëlle (28 November 2014). "Prix Jan Michalski 2014ImprimerPartager par e-mail avec un ami". Payot Libraire (in French). Retrieved 2022-10-02.
  13. ^ "2014". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  14. ^ "2015". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  15. ^ "Reading with... Georgi Gospodinov". Shelf Awareness. May 18, 2022. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  16. ^ "2016". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  17. ^ "2017". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  18. ^ "2018". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  19. ^ "2019". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  20. ^ Anderson, Porter (2020-12-11). "Switzerland's 2020 Jan Michalski Prize Goes to Mia Couto". Publishing Perspectives. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  21. ^ "2020". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  22. ^ "2021". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  23. ^ "2022". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
  24. ^ "Literature Prize". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2023-06-26.

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