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 | Original title | English, French or German translation | Result | Ref. |
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| 2010 |   | Winner | [6] | ||
  | Arabic: فخاخ الرائحة | Wolves of the Crescent Moon | Finalists | ||
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 | HHhH | Nominee | |||
 | Harmonia cælestis | Celestial Harmonies | |||
 | Im Sitzen läuft es sich besser davon | ||||
 | Уязвимость любви | ||||
| | Claude Monet, une vie au fil de l’eau | ||||
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| Похороните меня за плинтусом | |||||
| 2011 | | Winner | [7] | ||
 | Ilustrado | Finalists | |||
 Sjón | Skugga-Baldur | ||||
 | — | No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems | Nominee | ||
 | Pol Pots leende | Pol Pot’s Smile | |||
| Проект Одиночество | |||||
 | Godot i jego cień | ||||
| 2012 |  | Winner | [8] | ||
| | Kaiser von Amerika: Die große Flucht aus Galizien | Finalists | |||
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| | Franz Schubert | Nominee | |||
| | Kampuchéa | ||||
 | Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred | ||||
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| Острый нож для мягкого сердца | Couteau tranchant pour un cœur tendre | ||||
| | Hokusaï aux doigts d’encre | ||||
| 2013 | Persian: زوال کلنل | Winner | [9] [10] | ||
| | L’aigle et le Dragon: Démesure européenne et mondialisation au XVIe siècle | Finalists | [11] | ||
| | De fattiga i Łódź | ||||
| | Second selection | ||||
 | — | ||||
| | Good night, Dżerzi | First selection | |||
| | 盛世：中國，2013年 | ||||
| | ஸீரோ டிகிரி | Zero Degree | |||
| | Bête de cirque | ||||
 | Chet Baker piensa en su arte | ||||
| | Building Stories | ||||
| 2014 | | Ворошиловград | Voroshylovhrad | Winner | [12] [13] |
| | Dispatcher: Lost and Found in Johannesburg | Finalists | |||
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| | China’s War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival | Second selection | |||
| | Confiteor | Confessions | |||
 | Atavismes | Atavisms | First selection | ||
| | Oublier, trahir puis disparaître | ||||
| | Enon | ||||
| | Second Childhood | ||||
| | Salki | ||||
 | Bonavia | ||||
  | Arabic: ملائكة الجنوب | Engel des Südens | |||
| 2015 | | Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kiš | Winner | [14] | |
| | Zwischen Koran und Kafka: West-östliche Erkundungen | Between Quran and Kafka: West-Eastern Inquiries | Finalists | ||
| | Arabic: بغداد مالبورو، من أجل برادلي مانينك | Bagdad Marlboro: Ein Roman für Bradley Manning | |||
| | Second selection | ||||
 | My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel | ||||
| | Europe since 1989: A History | First selection | |||
 | Matei Brunul | L’histoire de Bruno Matei | |||
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| | Noir parfait | ||||
| | Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life | ||||
| | Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus: A Biography | ||||
| | Traduire comme transhumer | Translation as Transhumance | |||
| 2016 |  | Физика на тъгата | Physics of Sorrow | Winner | [15] [16] |
| | Što pepeo priča | Finalists | |||
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| | Levels of Life | Second selection | |||
| | Ungläubiges Staunen: Über das Christentum | Wonder Beyond Belief: On Christianity | |||
| | Bright Dead Things | First selection | |||
 | Curiosity | ||||
| | Husar in der Hölle, 1914 | ||||
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| | Louis Michel Eilshemius: Peer of Poet-Painters | ||||
| | Poetry and Radical Politics in fin de siècle France: From Anarchism to Action française | ||||
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| | Warum Europa eine Republik werden muss! Eine politische Utopie | Why Europe Should Become a Republic! A Political Utopia | |||
| 2017 | | Winner | [17] | ||
| et al. | Invisible Libraries | Finalists | |||
| | 輪迴的螞蟻 | ||||
| | When Breath Becomes Air | Second selection | |||
| | Guguły | Swallowing Mercury | |||
| | Танґо смерті | Tango of Death | First selection | ||
| | L’état actuel des choses | ||||
 | Solo ombre: Silhouettes storiche, letterarie e mondane | ||||
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| 2018 | | Księgi Jakubowe | Winner | [18] | |
| | ההיסטוריה של המחר | Finalists | |||
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| | Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich | Second selection | |||
| | Other People’s Countries: A Journey into Memory | ||||
| | First selection | ||||
| | Vernon Subutex | ||||
| | Bad Machine | ||||
| | We That Are Young | ||||
| 2019 | | כאב | Pain | Winner | [19] |
| | Sangue giusto | Finalists | |||
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| | Second selection | ||||
| | First selection | ||||
  | Stien tilbake til livet: Om sopp og sorg | ||||
| 2020 |  with David Brookshaw (trans.) | Sands of the Emperor | Winner | [20] [21] | |
| | Oreo | Finalists | |||
| | East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity | ||||
| | Briser en nous la mer gelée | Second selection | |||
 | Vies conjugales | ||||
| | An einem klaren, eiskalten Januarmorgen zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts | One Clear, Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century | First selection | ||
| | Arv og miljø | Will and Testament | |||
| | Cieśniny | ||||
| | Croire aux fauves | In the Eye of the Wild | |||
| | Коханці юстиції | ||||
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| | Lightness | ||||
| Предел забвения | Oblivion | ||||
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| | 209 rue Saint-Maur, Paris Xe: Autobiographie d’un immeuble | ||||
| 2021 | Memorial International (Alena Kozlova, Nikolai Mikhailov, Irina Ostrovskaya, and Irina Scherbakova) with Georgia Thomson (trans.) | Знак не сотрется: Судьбы остарбайтеров в письмах, воспоминаниях и устных рассказах | OST: Letters, Memoirs and Stories from Ostarbeiter in Nazi Germany | Winner | [22] |
| | White Hot Light: Twenty-five Years in Emergency Medicine | Finalists | |||
 with Lisa Dillman and Daniel Hahn (trans.) | Duelo | Mourning | |||
| | Second selection | ||||
| with Antonina W. Bouis (trans.) | Дебютант | Untraceable | |||
| | Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate | First selection | |||
| | Tríptico da Salvação | ||||
| Открывается внутрь | |||||
| Памяти памяти | In Memory of Memory | ||||
| | Verzeichnis einiger Verluste | ||||
| | Qui a tué mon père | Who Killed My Father | |||
| | Gérard: Cinq années dans les pattes de Depardieu | Gérard: Five Years with Depardieu | |||
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| | L’homme surnuméraire | ||||
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| 2022 |  | Les fossoyeuses | Winner | [23] | |
 with Diane Grosklaus Whitty (trans.) | The Collector of Leftover Souls: Dispatches from Brazil | Finalists | |||
 Untold Narratives | — | My Pen is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women | |||
| | Dans leur nuit | Second selection | |||
| | Civilizations | ||||
 | First selection | ||||
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| | Времеубежище | Time Shelter | |||
| | River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads | ||||
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| 2023 | | Winner | [24] | ||
| | Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest | Finalists | |||
 with Donald Rayfield (trans.) | Manaschi | ||||
| | Due vite | Second selection | |||
| with David McKay (trans.) | |||||
| | Trois femmes disparaissent | First selection | |||
| | Anéantir | Annihilation | |||
| | Boulder | ||||
| | Bright Unbearable Reality | ||||
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| | Kärlekens Antarktis | ||||
| | Havets kirkegård | ||||
 | My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route | ||||
| | What Are You Going Through? | ||||