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 CHF 50,000. 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]

Honorees

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Year Author Original title English, French or German translation Result Ref.
2010    Aleksandar Hemon The Lazarus Project Winner [6]
   Yousef Al-Mohaimeed فخاخ الرائحة Wolves of the Crescent Moon Finalists
  Tim Flannery The Weather Makers
  Laurent Binet HHhH Nominee
  Péter Esterházy Harmonia cælestis Celestial Harmonies
  Alois Hotschnig Im Sitzen läuft es sich besser davon
  Viktor Malakhov Уязвимость любви
  Frédéric Martinez Claude Monet, une vie au fil de l’eau
  Klaus Merz Der Argentinier
  Pavel Sanaev Похороните меня за плинтусом
2011   György Dragomán A fehér király The White King Winner [7]
  Miguel Syjuco Ilustrado Finalists
  Sjón Skugga-Baldur The Blue Fox
   Liu Xiaobo No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems Nominee
  Peter Fröberg Idling Pol Pots leende Pol Pot’s Smile
  Mark Kharitonov Проект Одиночество
  Antoni Libera Godot i jego cień
2012   Julia Lovell The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China Winner [8]
  Martin Pollack Kaiser von Amerika: Die große Flucht aus Galizien Finalists
  Timothy Snyder Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
  Philippe Cassard Franz Schubert Nominee
  Patrick Deville Kampuchéa
  Mark Gevisser Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred
  Donald Ray Pollock The Devil All the Time
  Maria Rybakova Острый нож для мягкого сердца Couteau tranchant pour un cœur tendre
  Bruno Smolarz Hokusaï aux doigts d’encre
2013   Mahmoud Dowlatabadi زوال کلنل The Colonel Winner [9][10]
  Serge Gruzinski L’aigle et le Dragon: Démesure européenne et mondialisation au XVIe siècle Finalists [11]
  Steve Sem-Sandberg De fattiga i Łódź The Emperor of Lies
  Robert Macfarlane The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot Second selection
  Uday Prakash The Walls of Delhi
  Janusz Głowacki Good night, Dżerzi First selection
  Chan Koonchung 盛世:中國,2013年 The Fat Years
  Charu Nivedita ஸீரோ டிகிரி Zero Degree
  Tiphaine Samoyault Bête de cirque
  Enrique Vila-Matas Chet Baker piensa en su arte
  Chris Ware Building Stories
2014   Serhiy Zhadan Ворошиловград Voroshylovhrad Winner [12][13]
  Mark Gevisser Dispatcher: Lost and Found in Johannesburg Finalists
  Marci Shore The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe
  Rana Mitter China’s War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival Second selection
  Jaume Cabré Confiteor Confessions
  Maxime Raymond Bock Atavismes Atavisms First selection
  Camille de Toledo Oublier, trahir puis disparaître
  Paul Harding Enon
  Fanny Howe Second Childhood
  Wojciech Nowicki Salki
  Dragan Velikić Bonavia
   Najem Wali ملائكة الجنوب Engel des Südens
2015   Mark Thompson Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kiš Winner [14]
   Navid Kermani Zwischen Koran und Kafka: West-östliche Erkundungen Between Quran and Kafka: West-Eastern Inquiries Finalists
   Najem Wali بغداد مالبورو، من أجل برادلي مانينك Bagdad Marlboro: Ein Roman für Bradley Manning
  Jean-Noël Orengo La Fleur du Capital Second selection
  Ari Shavit My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
   Philipp Ther Die neue Ordnung auf dem alten Kontinent: Eine Geschichte des neoliberalen Europa Europe since 1989: A History First selection
  Lucian Dan Teodorovici Matei Brunul L’histoire de Bruno Matei
  Frédéric Badré La grande santé
  Valentin Retz Noir parfait
  Hermione Lee Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life
  Lisa Jarnot Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus: A Biography
  Gansel Mireille Traduire comme transhumer Translation as Transhumance
2016   Georgi Gospodinov Физика на тъгата Physics of Sorrow Winner [15][16]
  Dževad Karahasan Što pepeo priča The Solace of the Night Sky Finalists
   Aatish Taseer The Way Things Were
  Julian Barnes Levels of Life Second selection
   Navid Kermani Ungläubiges Staunen: Über das Christentum Wonder Beyond Belief: On Christianity
  Ada Limón Bright Dead Things First selection
   Alberto Mangel Curiosity
  Iván Sándor Az éjszaka mélyén, 1914 Husar in der Hölle, 1914
  Andrea Bajani La vita non è in ordine alfabetico
   Fariba Hachtroudi Le colonel et l’appât 455 The Man Who Snapped His Fingers
  Stefan Banz Louis Michel Eilshemius: Peer of Poet-Painters
  Patrick McGuinness Poetry and Radical Politics in fin de siècle France: From Anarchism to Action française
  Víctor del Árbol Un millón de gotas A Million Drops
  Ulrike Guérot Warum Europa eine Republik werden muss! Eine politische Utopie Why Europe Should Become a Republic! A Political Utopia
2017   Thierry Wolton Une histoire mondiale du communisme Winner [17]
  Lawrence Liang et al. Invisible Libraries Finalists
   Liao Yiwu 輪迴的螞蟻 Die Wiedergeburt der Ameisen
  Paul Kalanithi When Breath Becomes Air Second selection
  Wioletta Greg Guguły Swallowing Mercury
  Yuriy Vynnychuk Танґо смерті Tango of Death First selection
  Eugénie Paultre L’état actuel des choses
   Alvar González-Palacios Solo ombre: Silhouettes storiche, letterarie e mondane
  Peter Frankopan The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
2018   Olga Tokarczuk Księgi Jakubowe The Books of Jacob Winner [18]
  Yuval Noah Harari ההיסטוריה של המחר Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow Finalists
  Jean Rolin Le traquet kurde
  Norman Ohler Der totale Rausch: Drogen im Dritten Reich Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich Second selection
  Patrick McGuinness Other People’s Countries: A Journey into Memory
  Maggie Nelson The Argonauts First selection
  Virginie Despentes Vernon Subutex
   George Szirtes Bad Machine
  Preti Taneja We That Are Young
2019   Zeruya Shalev כאב Pain Winner [19]
  Francesca Melandri Sangue giusto Finalists
   Patrik Ouředník La fin du monde n’aurait pas eu lieu The End of the World Might Not Have Taken Place
  Antonio Iturbe La bibliotecaria de Auschwitz The Librarian of Auschwitz Second selection
  Morgan Sportès Le ciel ne parle pas First selection
   Long Litt Woon Stien tilbake til livet: Om sopp og sorg The Way Through the Woods: Of Mushrooms and Mourning
2020   Mia Couto with David Brookshaw (trans.) As Areias do Imperador Sands of the Emperor Winner [20][21]
  Fran Ross Oreo Finalists
   Philippe Sands East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
  Érik Orsenna Briser en nous la mer gelée Second selection
  Bernard Quiriny Vies conjugales
  Roland Schimmelpfennig 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
  Vigdis Hjorth Arv og miljø Will and Testament
  Wojciech Nowicki Cieśniny
  Nastassja Martin Croire aux fauves In the Eye of the Wild
  Yurii Andrukhovych Коханці юстиції Die Lieblinge der Justiz
  António Damásio The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures
  Catherine Meurisse La Légèreté Lightness
  Sergei Lebedev Предел забвения Oblivion
  Sorj Chalandon Le jour d’avant
   Viet Thanh Nguyen The Sympathizer
  Ruth Zylberman 209 rue Saint-Maur, Paris Xe: Autobiographie d’un immeuble The Department of Missing Persons
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]
  Frank Huyler White Hot Light: Twenty-five Years in Emergency Medicine Finalists
  Eduardo Halfon with Lisa Dillman and Daniel Hahn (trans.) Duelo Mourning
  Sophy Roberts The Lost Pianos of Siberia Second selection
  Sergei Lebedev with Antonina W. Bouis (trans.) Дебютант Untraceable
  Daniel Mendelsohn Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate First selection
  Mário Cláudio Tríptico da Salvação
  Ksenia Buksha Открывается внутрь
  Maria Stepanova Памяти памяти In Memory of Memory
  Judith Schalansky Verzeichnis einiger Verluste An Inventory of Losses
  Édouard Louis Qui a tué mon père Who Killed My Father
  Mathieu Sapin Gérard: Cinq années dans les pattes de Depardieu Gérard: Five Years with Depardieu
  Lisa Mandel Une année exemplaire
  Patrice Jean L’homme surnuméraire
  Claude Hunzinger Les grands cerfs
  Carmen Boullosa El libro de Ana The Book of Anna
2022    Taina Tervonen Les fossoyeuses Winner [23]
  Eliane Brum with Diane Grosklaus Whitty (trans.) A vida que ninguém vê The Collector of Leftover Souls: Dispatches from Brazil Finalists
   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
   Nathacha Appanah Le ciel par-dessus le toit The Sky Above the Roof First selection
  M. John Harrison The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again
  Georgi Gospodinov Времеубежище Time Shelter
  Cat Jarman River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads
  Tanguy Viel La fille qu’on appelle The Girl You Call
  Stéphanie Coste Le passeur
2023    Karina Sainz Borgo El Tercer País Winner [24]
  Suzanne Simard Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest Finalists
   Hamid Ismailov with Donald Rayfield (trans.) Manaschi
  Emanuele Trevi Due vite Second selection
  Stefan Hertmans with David McKay (trans.) De opgang The Ascent
  Hélène Frappat Trois femmes disparaissent First selection
  Michel Houellebecq Anéantir Annihilation
  Eva Baltasar Boulder
   Anna Badkhen Bright Unbearable Reality
  Agustín Fernández Mallo El libro de todos los amores The Book of All Loves
  Sara Stridsberg Kärlekens Antarktis The Antarctica of Love
  Aslak Nore Havets kirkegård The Sea Cemetery
  Sally Hayden My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route
  Sigrid Nunez What Are You Going Through?

Notes

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  1. ^ a b "Prize for Literature, Press Release of launch" (PDF). Foundation Jan Michalski. November 2009. Retrieved November 23, 2012.
  2. ^ "Jan Michalski Prize for Literature". BookTrade.info. June 5, 2010. Archived from the original on March 8, 2012. Retrieved November 23, 2012.
  3. ^ "Maison de l'Ecriture". Foundation Jan Michalski. Retrieved November 23, 2012.
  4. ^ "Jan Michalski Foundation, background". Foundation Jan Michalski. Retrieved November 23, 2012.
  5. ^ Domhnall O'Sullivan (August 26, 2017). "Treehouses of language: inside a Swiss literature foundation". swissinfo.ch. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
  6. ^ "2010". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  7. ^ "2011". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  8. ^ "2012". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  9. ^ Sal Robinson (November 14, 2013). "Mahmoud Dowlatabadi wins the 2013 Jan Michalski Prize". Melville House Publishing. Archived from the original on December 7, 2013. Retrieved November 13, 2013.
  10. ^ "2013". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  11. ^ "Awards: Jan Michalski Prize for Literature". Shelf Awareness. August 6, 2013. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  12. ^ Brack, Joëlle (28 November 2014). "Prix Jan Michalski 2014ImprimerPartager par e-mail avec un ami". Payot Libraire (in French). Retrieved 2022-10-02.
  13. ^ "2014". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  14. ^ "2015". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  15. ^ "Reading with... Georgi Gospodinov". Shelf Awareness. May 18, 2022. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  16. ^ "2016". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  17. ^ "2017". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  18. ^ "2018". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  19. ^ "2019". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  20. ^ Anderson, Porter (2020-12-11). "Switzerland's 2020 Jan Michalski Prize Goes to Mia Couto". Publishing Perspectives. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  21. ^ "2020". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  22. ^ "2021". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  23. ^ "2022". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
  24. ^ "Literature Prize". Fondation Jan Michalski. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
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