At almost 66 years old, Éric Neuhoff will soon have more decorations than a marshal of the Russian army!
Let us judge: after the Deux Magots prize (1995), the Interallié prize (1997), the grand prize for the novel of the French Academy (2001), the Prince-Pierre-de-Monaco literary prize (2014) , the Renaudot prize, essay category (2019) and others, here he is the winner of the Paul-Morand literature prize.
Read also Éric Neuhoff's
literary return
: our friends the letters
A distinction created in 1977 and awarded every two years by the French Academy to a French-speaking writer
"author of one or more works remarkable for their qualities of thought, style, spirit of independence and freedom".
On the prize list, Neuhoff joins, among others, Romain Gary (1978) first winner who refused the prize because of Morand's anti-Semitism, JM.G Le Clézio (1980), Emil Cioran (1988), Philippe Sollers (1992), Patrick Modiano (2000), Jean-Paul Kauffmann (2002), Jean Rolin (2004), Jean Echenoz (2006), Olivier Rolin (2010), Patrick Grainville (2012), Gilles Lapouge (2014), Charles Dantzig (2018).
Since 2002, the Paul-Morand Prize has been endowed with 45,000 euros.
It should be noted that in its 2022 prize list, which has nearly 55 prizes, the Academy also awarded the Maurice-Genevoix prize to Louis-Henri de La Rochefoucauld for
Châteaux de sable
(Robert Laffont) already crowned with the Deux-Magots prize .
and the new Meurice Prize.
The prize for biography goes to François Angelier for his excellent work
Georges Bernanos, anger and grace
(Seuil).
To read also
Georges Bernanos, the anger and the grace
of François Angelier: the anguish of living and dying
In the poetry category, the Paul-Verlaine prize was awarded to Yvon Le Men for
La Baie vitée
(Bruno Doucey) and
À perdu de ciel
(Bayard).
In the literature and philosophy prize category, the tandem of Christian Garcin and Thierry Gillyboeuf is crowned for their translation of the complete short stories by Melville (Finitude).
The Émile-Faguet Prize was awarded to Mathilde Brézet for
Le Grand Monde de Proust.
Dictionary of characters
from In Search of Lost Time (Grasset).
A book that has already won the Cazes and Céleste-Albaret prizes.
In the history prize category, the Thiers prize was awarded to Charles-Eloi Vial for his book
Napoleon and the Libraries.
Books and power under the First Empire
published by Perrin.
