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 . 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]
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Winner | [6] | ||
| Wolves of the Crescent Moon | Finalist | |||
| HHhH | Nominee | |||
| Celestial Harmonies | ||||
| Im Sitzen läuft es sich besser davon | ||||
| Ouïazvimost' lioubvi | ||||
| Claude Monet, une vie au fil de l'eau | ||||
| Pokhoronite menia za plintousom | ||||
| 2011 | Winner | [7] | ||
| Ilustrado | Finalist | |||
| Sjón | ||||
| No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems | Nominee | |||
| Pol Pot's Smile | ||||
| Godot's Shadow | ||||
| 2012 | Winner | [8] | ||
| Kaiser von Amerika: Die grosse Flucht aus Galizien | Finalist | |||
| Franz Schubert | Nominee | |||
| Kampuchéa | ||||
| Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred | ||||
| Poignard perçant pour un coeur tendre | ||||
| Hokusaï aux doigts d'encre | ||||
| 2013 | Winner | [9] [10] | ||
| L'aigle et le Dragon | Finalist | [11] | ||
| Good night, Dzerzi! | Nominee | |||
| Zero Degree | ||||
| Bête de cirque | ||||
| Chet Baker piensa en su arte | ||||
| Building Stories | ||||
| 2014 | Voroshylovhrad | Winner | [12] [13] | |
| Dispatcher: Lost and Found in Johannesburg | Finalist | |||
| China's War with Japan: The Struggle for Survival | Nominee | |||
| Confiteor | ||||
| Atavismes | ||||
| Oublier, trahir puis disparaître | ||||
| Enon | ||||
| Second Childhood | ||||
| Salki | ||||
| Bonavia | ||||
| Engel des Südens | ||||
| 2015 | Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kiš | Winner | [14] | |
| Between Quran and Kafka: West-Eastern Inquiries | Finalist | |||
| Bagdad Marlboro: Ein Roman für Bradley Manning | ||||
| Second selection | ||||
| My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel | ||||
| 2016 | Physics of Sorrow | Winner | [15] [16] | |
| Finalist | ||||
| Levels of Life | Second selection | |||
| Ungläubiges Staunen. Über das Christentum | ||||
| 2017 | Winner | [17] | ||
| et al. | Invisible Libraries | Finalist | ||
| When Breath Becomes Air | Second selection | |||
| Swallowing Mercury | ||||
| 2018 | Winner | [18] | ||
| Finalist | ||||
| Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich | Second selection | |||
| Other People's Countries: A Journey into Memory | ||||
| 2019 | Pain | Winner | [19] | |
| Sangue Giusto | Finalist | |||
| First selection | ||||
| 2020 | with David Brookshaw (trans.) | Sands of the Emperor | Winner | [20] [21] |
| Oreo | Finalist | |||
| East West Street | ||||
| Briser en nous la mer gelée | Second selection | |||
| 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] |
| White Hot Light: Twenty-five Years in Emergency Medicine | Finalist | |||
| with Lisa Dillman and Daniel Hahn (trans.) | Mourning | |||
| Second selection | ||||
| 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 |