Prix de Flore explained

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 it 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 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

• 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
• 2016: Double Nationalité by Nina Yargekov,
  • 2017: (ex-æquo), by Pierre Ducrozet Actes Sud 2018: (ex-æquo), Paname Underground by,
• 2018: by Raphaël Rupert
• 2019: by Sofia Aouine^[5]
• 2020 : La Grâce by Thibault de Montaigu, Éditions Plon
• 2021: Le Voyant d’Etampes by Abel Quentin, ^[6]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Prix de Flore . Prix-litteraires.net . 2013-08-19.
2. Web site: David Caviglioli . Le soir où les fachos ont envahi le Flore» ]. . 10 November 2011 . French.
3. Web site: Le Prix de Flore pour "Zénith Hôtel" d' Oscar Coop-Phane . France TV . French . November 8, 2012 . November 9, 2012.
4. Web site: Monica Sabolo, joli Prix de Flore . Le Figaro . Mohammed Aïssaoui . Mohammed Aïssaoui . 7 October 2013 . December 2, 2013.
5. https://www.lemonde.fr/livres/article/2019/11/12/sofia-aouine-recoit-le-prix-de-flore-pour-rhapsodie-des-oublies_6018907_3260.html Sofia Aouine reçoit le prix de Flore pour « Rhapsodie des oubliés »
6. Web site: Le prix de Flore 2021 pour Abel Quentin . L'Obs . 4 November 2021 . French . 4 November 2021.