The French novelist Pascal Quignard, winner of the Goncourt in 2002, received the Formentor Prize for Literature 2023 on Wednesday for all of his work, the jury announced.
The 74-year-old author was rewarded "
for the virtuosity with which he reconnected with the genealogy of literary thought, for the talent with which he escapes textual banality and for having apprehended the most unexpected dimensions of creation. literary
,” the statement said.
Endowed with 50,000 euros, the Formentor Prize is an international literary prize created in 1960 by a group of renowned European publishers.
Pascal Quignard won the Goncourt Prize in 2002 for "
Les Ombres errantes
", a work representative of his work, with fragments of sensations and memories and digressions on history, myths, the future of cultures and works of art. ill-known, often ancient art, the meaning of which he finely explores.
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The general public knows him especially for
Tous les matins du monde
,
a 1991 novel adapted for the cinema by Alain Corneau.
Pascal Quignard co-wrote the screenplay for the film, which proved to be a great success not only critically, but also with the public.
The book, short, crossed by an extreme sensitivity, and the film, very neat, with Jean-Pierre Marielle and Gérard Depardieu, evoke the career of a baroque musician who played at the court of Louis XIV, Marin Marais.
The rest of his work is perceived as less accessible, despite a tendency to short chapters and a clear style.
Chaired by writer and publisher Basilio Baltasar, the Formentor Prize jury includes five members, all Spanish.
It met in Canfranc, in the Aragonese Pyrenees (northeastern Spain).
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