Prix Roger Caillois Explained

The prix Roger Caillois is an annual literary prize established in 1991 in partnership with the PEN Club in France and the as well as the Society of readers and friends of Roger Caillois, awarded to both a Latin American and a French author. Since 2007, the prix Roger Caillois for essay comes in addition to these two prizes.

The prize is awarded in December.

Laureates

Latin American authors

• 1991: José Donoso
  • • 1993: Álvaro Mutis 1995: Adolfo Bioy Casares 1997: Homero Aridjis
• 1999: Haroldo de Campos
  • • • • • • 2001: Blanca Varela 2002: Mario Vargas Llosa 2003: Carlos Fuentes 2004: Alberto Manguel 2006: Sergio Pitol 2007: Alan Pauls 2008: Ricardo Piglia
• 2009: Roberto Bolaño
• 2010: Elsa Cross
• 2011: Leonardo Padura Fuentes
• 2012: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
• 2013: Cristina Rivera Garza
• 2014: César Aira
• 2015: Eduardo Halfon
• 2016: Chico Buarque

French-speaking authors

• • • • • • 1991: Édouard Glissant 1992: Jean-Marie Le Sidaner 1994: Pierre Gascar 1996: Gilles Lapouge 1998: Kenneth White 1999: Alain Jouffroy
• 2000: François Cheng
  • • • 2001: Michel Waldberg 2002: Gérard Macé 2003: Jean Bottéro 2004: Michel Braudeau
  • 2007: Éric Chevillard 2008: Roger Grenier
• 2009: Pierre Bergounioux
• 2010: François Maspero
• 2011: Pierre Pachet
• 2012: Christian Garcin
• 2013: Marcel Cohen
• 2014: Chantal Thomas
• 2015: Jean-Paul Iommi-Amunategui
• 2016: Régis Debray

Essays

• 2007: Maurice Olender
• 2008: Serge Gruzinski
• 2009: Paul Veyne
• 2010: Jacqueline Risset
• 2011: Jean-Pierre Dupuy
• 2012: Michel Pastoureau
• 2013: Régis Boyer
• 2014: Jean-Yves Jouannais
• 2015: Jean-Paul Demoule
• 2016: Alain Corbin

Mention

• 2016: Translator: Jacques Ancet

Special centenary prize

• 2013 : Silvia Baron Supervielle

External links

• Prix Roger Caillois 2015
• Site of the Maison de l'Amérique latine