Prix de Flore
The Prix de Flore is a French literary prize founded in 1994 by Frédéric Beigbeder. The aim of the prize is to reward youthful authors and is judged by a panel of journalists. It is awarded yearly in November,[1] at the Café de Flore in Paris. The prize only applies to French-language literature, even though the author does not have to be French. Bruce Benderson was the first non-French author to receive the prize, in 2004, for the novel Autobiographie érotique (released in English as The Romanian: Story of an Obsession). The laureate of the Prix de Flore wins about 6,000 Euros and is entitled to drink a glass of Pouilly-Fumé, a white wine from the Loire region of France, at the Café de Flore every day for a year. The laureate's name is engraved on the glass.
Laureates[edit]
- 1994 : Cantique de la racaille by Vincent Ravalec
- 1995 : Le Pas du loup by Jacques A. Bertrand
- 1996 : Le Sens du combat by Michel Houellebecq
- 1997 : Le Chameau sauvage by Philippe Jaenada
- 1998 : Les Jolies Choses by Virginie Despentes
- 1999 : Nicolas Pages by Guillaume Dustan
- 2000 : Mémoire courte by Nicolas Rey
- 2001 : L'Empire de la morale by Christophe Donner
- 2002 : Rapport sur moi by Grégoire Bouillier
- 2003 : Mammifères by Pierre Mérot
- 2004 : Autobiographie érotique by Bruce Benderson
- 2005 : Boys boys boys by Joy Sorman
- 2006 : Rendez-vous by Christine Angot
- 2007 : Ni d'Ève ni d'Adam by Amélie Nothomb
- 2008 : La meilleure part des hommes by Tristan Garcia
- 2009 : L'hyper Justine by Simon Liberati
- 2010 : Le jour du roi by Abdellah Taïa
- 2011 : Du temps qu'on existait by Marien Defalvard[2]
- 2012 : Zénith-Hôtel by Oscar Coop-Phane[3]
- 2013 : Tout cela n'a rien à voir avec moi by Monica Sabolo[4]
- 2014 : L'Aménagement du territoire by Aurélien Bellanger
- 2015 : La Fleur du Capital by Jean-Noël Orengo
References[edit]
- ^ "Prix de Flore". Prix-litteraires.net. Retrieved 2013-08-19.
- ^ David Caviglioli (10 November 2011). "Le soir où les fachos ont envahi le Flore]»". Le Nouvel Observateur (in French).
- ^ "Le Prix de Flore pour "Zénith Hôtel" d' Oscar Coop-Phane". France TV (in French). November 8, 2012. Retrieved November 9, 2012.
- ^ Mohammed Aissaoui (7 October 2013). "Monica Sabolo, joli Prix de Flore". Le Figaro. Retrieved December 2, 2013.
