The Fénéon Prize (''Prix Fénéon''), established in 1949, is awarded annually to a French-language writer and a visual artist no older than 35 years of age. The prize was established by Fanny Fénéon, the widow of French art critic

Félix Fénéon Félix Fénéon (; 22 June 1861 – 29 February 1944) was a French art critic, gallery director, writer and anarchist during the late 19th century and early 20th century. He coined the term ''Neo-Impressionism'' in 1886 to identify a group of a ...

. She bequeathed the proceeds from the sale of his art collection to the

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, whose Vice Chancellor chairs the award jury.

Recipients

Art

*1950: Mireille Miailhe *1951: Louis Derbré for ''Buste de Louis Werschürr'',

Paul Rebeyrolle Paul Rebeyrolle (3 November 1926 in Eymoutiers – 7 February 2005 in Côte-d'Or) was a French painter. Life and works As a child he had tuberculosis of the bone, which caused for long periods of immobility. Later he studied in Limoges and join ...

and

Paul Collomb Paul Collomb (8 October 1921 – 6 October 2010) was a French painter and lithographer. A native of Ain, he studied art in Paris before World War II. He won the Premier Second Grand Prix de Rome in 1950. Collomb's work has drawn comparisons t ...

*1952: Jack Ottaviano & Marcel Fiorini *1953: André Cottavoz, Jean Fusaro and

Gérard Lanvin Gérard Lanvin (; born 21 June 1950) is a César Award-winning French actor. He quit his studies when he was 17 to become an actor. He took on a role in '' Vous n'aurez pas l'Alsace et la Lorraine'' in 1977 on an offer from the actor Coluche. H ...

*1954: Lucien Fleury, René Laubies and Roger-Edgar Gillet *1955: Huguette Arthur Bertrand *1957: Françoise Salmon, Pierre Parsus and Gabriel Godard *1962: Jean Revol *1963: Bernard Le Quellec *1964: Jean Parsy *1966: Michel Moy *1968: Paul-Henri Friquet *1969: Pierre Gaste *1972: Henri Reiter *1973: Jean-Luc Parant *1976: Bernard Gabriel Lafabrie *1977: Jean-Pierre Vieren *1978: Vincent Rougier *1979: Jean-Jacques Dournon *1981: Mathias Pérez *1983: Marie Morel *1987: Paul Pagk *1994: Pál Breznay *1998: Florent Chopin *2002: Xavier Escriba *2003: Xavier Drong *2007: Thilleli Rahmoun *2008: Étienne Fouchet *2010: Marion Verboom *2011: Franck Masanell *2012: Anne-Charlotte Yver *2013: Félix Pinquier *2014: Claire Chesnier *2015: Julia Gault *2016: Alice Louradour *2017: Raphaëlle Peria *2018: Salomé Fauc *2019: Maxime Biou *2020: Quentin Guichard and Hui Liu

Literature

*1949:

Michel Cournot Michel Cournot (1 May 1922 – 8 February 2007) was a French journalist, screenwriter and film director. As a writer he was awarded the Fénéon Prize in 1949 for ''Martinique''. His only film as a director, '' Les Gauloises bleues'', was d ...

for ''Martinique'' *1950: Alfred Kern for ''Le jardin perdu'' and Celou Arasco for ''La Cote des malfaisants'' *1951: Claude Roy for ''Le poète mineur'',

Béatrix Beck Béatrix Beck (14 July 1914 – 30 November 2008) was a French writer of Belgian origin. She was born at Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland, the daughter of the poet Christian Beck. After several jobs, she became the secretary of André Gide ...

for ''Une mort irrégulière'' and Micheline Peyrebonne for ''Leur sale pitié''. *1952:

Michel Vinaver Michel Vinaver (born Michel Grinberg; 13 January 1927 – 1 May 2022) was a French writer and dramatist. He was born in Paris to parents who had emigrated from Russia. He was the manager of Gillette. He is the father of actress Anouk Grinberg ...

for ''L'Objecteur'' *1953: Mohamed Dib for ''La Grande Maison'',

Francis Jeanson Francis Jeanson (7 July 1922 – 1 August 2009) was a French political activist known for his commitment to the FLN during the Algerian war. Life Although his father's name was Henri, Francis Jeanson was not related to the Henri Jeanson who ...

for ''Montaigne peint par lui-même'' and Claude Levy for ''Une histoire vraie'' *1954: Jean-Luc Déjean for ''Les Voleurs de pauvres'',

Albert Memmi Albert Memmi ( ar, ألبير ممّي; 15 December 1920 – 22 May 2020) was a French-Tunisian writer and essayist of Tunisian-Jewish origins. Biography Memmi was born in Tunis, French Tunisia in December 1920, to a Tunisian Jewish Berb ...

for ''La Statue de sel'' and

Alain Robbe-Grillet Alain Robbe-Grillet (; 18 August 1922 – 18 February 2008) was a French writer and filmmaker. He was one of the figures most associated with the '' Nouveau Roman'' (new novel) trend of the 1960s, along with Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor and ...

for ''Les Gommes'' *1955: Jean David for ''Les Passes du silence'', Marcel Allemann for ''Les Exploits du Grand Zapata'', Robert Droguet for ''Féminaire'' and

Pierre Oster Pierre Oster (6 March 1933 – 22 October 2020) was a French poet and editor born into a Luxembourgish family. After his marriage to Angella Soussoueva in 1971, he often credited his wife in addition to himself on his works. Biography Oster stu ...

for ''Le Champ de mai'' *1956: Dominique Vazeilles for ''La Route vers la mer'', François Clément for ''Le Fils désobéissant'' and

Georges Conchon Georges Conchon (9 May 1925 in St. Avitus (Puy-de-Dôme) – 29 July 1990 in Paris) was a French writer and screenwriter. Biography He grew up in a family of teachers,Pierre Maury: Georges Conchon n’ecrira plus'. archives.lesoir.be, 31. J ...

for ''Les Honneurs de la guerre'' *1957:

Michel Butor Michel Butor (; 14 September 1926 – 24 August 2016) was a French poet, novelist, teacher, essayist, art critic and translator. Life and work Michel Marie François Butor was born in Mons-en-Barœul, a suburb of Lille, the third of seven childr ...

for '' L'Emploi du temps'', Michel Breitman for ''L'Homme aux mouettes'', Jacques Bens for ''Chanson vécue'' and Laurent La Praye for ''La Trompette des anges'' *1958: Jean-François Revel for ''Pourquoi les philosophes ?'',

Philippe Sollers Philippe Sollers (; born Philippe Joyaux; 28 November 1936) is a French writer and critic. In 1960 he founded the ''avant garde'' literary journal ''Tel Quel'' (along with writer and art critic Marcelin Pleynet), which was published by Le S ...

for ''Le Défi'' and Jacques Cousseau for ''Le Chien gris'' *1959:

Armand Gatti Armand Gatti (; 26 January 1924 – 6 April 2017) was a French playwright, poet, journalist, screenwriter, filmmaker and World War II resistance fighter.Banham (1998, 413). His debut film ''Enclosure'' was entered into the 2nd Moscow Internatio ...

for ''Le Poisson noir'', Jean Forton for ''La Cendre aux yeux'', Robert Vigneau for ''Planches d'anatomie'' and Jean Fanchette for ''Archipels'' *1960: Dominique Daguet for ''Soleil et Lune'', Suzanne Martin for ''Rue des vivants'' and Yves Velan for ''Je'' *1961: Jean Thibaudeau for ''Cérémonie royale'', Jean Laugier for ''Les Bogues'' and

Michel Deguy Michel Deguy (23 May 1930 – 16 February 2022) was a French poet and translator. Biography Deguy was born in Paris on 23 May 1930. He taught French literature at the Universite de Paris VIII (Saint-Denis) for many years. He also served as dire ...

for ''Fragments du cadastre'' *1962: Jacques Serguine for ''Les Saints Innocents'', Noël Quatrepoint for ''Journal d'un être humain'' and Stephen Jourdain for ''Cette vie m'aime'' *1963: Jean Gilbert for his novel ''L'Enfant et le harnais'', Marcelin Pleynet for ''Provisoires amants des nègres'' and Jean-Pierre Steinbach aka Jean-Philippe Salabreuil for ''Poèmes de mon cru'' *1964: Jeanine Segelle for ''Le Pivert s'envole'' and

Claude Durand Claude Durand (1938–2015) was a French publisher, translator and writer. He worked in the French film industry editing films, and occasionally writing and directing. He published leading authors such as Solzhenitsyn and Houellebecq, and tog ...

for ''L'Autre vie'' *1965:

Denis Roche Denis may refer to: People * Saint Denis of Paris, 3rd-century Christian martyr and first bishop of Paris * Denis the Areopagite, Biblical figure * Denis, son of Ampud (died 1236), baron in the Kingdom of Hungary * Denis the Carthusian (1402–14 ...

for ''Les Idées centésimales de Miss Elanize'', Pierre Feuga for ''La Galère en bois de rose'' and Nicolas Genka for ''Jeanne la pudeur'' *1966: Claude Fessaguet for ''Le Bénéfice du doute'' and Jean Ricardou for his novel ''La Prise de Constantinople'' *1967: Didier Martin for ''Le Déclin des jours'' and Yves Vequaud for ''Le Petit Livre avalé'' *1968:

Jacques Roubaud Jacques Roubaud (; born 5 December 1932 in Caluire-et-Cuire, Rhône) is a French poet, writer and mathematician Life and career Jacques Roubaud taught Mathematics at University of Paris X Nanterre and Poetry at EHESS. A member of the Oulipo ...

for ''£'' *1969:

Patrick Modiano Jean Patrick Modiano (; born 30 July 1945), generally known as Patrick Modiano, is a French novelist and recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is a noted writer of autofiction, the blend of autobiography and historical fiction. In ...

for his novel '' La Place de l'étoile'' *1970:

Angelo Rinaldi Angelo Rinaldi (born 17 June 1940) is a French writer and literary critic. Biography Rinaldi is the son of Pierre-François Rinaldi and Antoinette Pietri; after growing up in Corsica he became a journalist. He initially worked as a reporter a ...

for ''La Loge du gouverneur'' *1971:

Jean Ristat Jean Ristat, (born 1943 in Argent-sur-Sauldre Cher) is a French poet and writer. Life Jean Ristat founded the magazine collection ''Digraph'' in 1974, as suggested by his professor of philosophy, Jacques Derrida, which he then put to the recent e ...

for ''Du coup d'Etat en littérature'' *1972: Claude Faraggi for ''Le Signe de la bête'' *1973:

Jean-Marc Roberts Jean-Marc Roberts (3 May 195425 March 2013) was a French editor, novelist, and screenwriter. Life He started writing in the early 1970s. He was awarded the 1973 Fénéon Prize for ''Samedi, dimanche et fêtes'' (English: ''Saturday, Sunday and hol ...

for ''Samedi, dimanche et fêtes'' *1974:

Paol Keineg Paol Keineg (born February 6, 1944) is a Breton-American writer and poet born in Quimerc'h (Brittany). He worked in several places in Brittany as a supervisor before becoming a teacher in Morlaix. He was fired without any official reason in 1972, ...

for ''Lieux communs'' *1975: Henri Raczymow for ''La Saisie'' *1976: Michel Falempin for ''L'Écrit fait masse'' *1977: Denis Duparc, pseudonym of

Renaud Camus Renaud Camus (; ; born Jean Renaud Gabriel Camus on 10 August 1946) is a French novelist, conspiracy theorist and white nationalist writer. He is the inventor of the " Great Replacement", a far-right conspiracy theory that claims that a "glob ...

, for ''Échange'' *1978: Mathieu Bénézet for ''L'Imitation'' *1979: Marc Guyon for ''Le Principe de solitude'' *1980:

Jean Echenoz Jean Echenoz (born 26 December 1947) is a French writer. Biography Jean Echenoz was born in Orange, Vaucluse, the son of a psychiatrist, He studied in Rodez, Digne-les-Bains, Lyon, Aix-en-Provence, Marseille and Paris, where he has lived sinc ...

for ''Le Méridien de Greenwich'' *1981:

Jean-Marie Laclavetine Jean-Marie Laclavetine (born February 17, 1954 in Bordeaux) is a French editor, writer and translator of Italian literature into French. Biography Jean-Marie Laclavetine was born in 1954 in Bordeaux. At the age of twenty-six he published his f ...

for ''Les Emmurés'' *1982: Jean-Louis Hue for ''Le Chat dans tous ses états'' *1983:

Bertrand Visage Bertrand Visage is a French academic and writer. He was a Professor of Literature in France for 3 years before moving to Italy to teach French literature for 2 years at the University of Catania in Sicily and afterwards at Naples Eastern Universi ...

for ''Au pays des nains'' *1984:

Gilles Carpentier Gilles Carpentier (14 June 1950, Paris – 16 September 2016) was a French writer and editor Biography After various menial jobs at the PTT or in the cinema, then a journalist with the cultural section of ' in the 1970s, where he published num ...

for ''Les Manuscrits de la marmotte'' *1985:

Hervé Guibert Hervé Guibert (14 December 1955 – 27 December 1991) was a French writer and photographer. The author of numerous novels and autobiographical studies, he played a considerable role in changing French public attitudes to HIV/AIDS. He was a ...

for '' Des aveugles'' *1986: Gilles Quinsat for ''L'Eclipse'' *1987: Laurence Guillon for ''Le Tsar Hérode'' *1988: Claude Arnaud for ''Chamfort'' & Benoît Conort for ''Pour une île à venir'' *1989: Éric Holder for ''Duo forte'' *1990: Patrick Cahuzac for ''Parole de singe'' *1991: Agnès Minazzoli for ''La Première Ombre'' *1992: Thierry Laget for ''Iris'' *1993: Éric Chevillard for ''La Nébuleuse du crabe'' *1994: Anne Grospiron for ''L'Empyrée'' *1995: Éric Laurrent for ''Coup de foudre'' *1996: Béatrice Leca for ''Technique du marbre'' *1997: Linda Lê for ''Les Trois Parques'' *1998: Arnaud Oseredczuk for ''59 préludes à l'évidence'' *2000: Laurent Mauvignier for ''Loin d'eux'' *2001: Bessora for ''Les Taches d'encre'' *2002: Tanguy Viel for ''L'Absolue Perfection du crime'' *2003: Clémence Boulouque for ''Mort d'un silence'' *2004: Olga Lossky for ''Requiem pour un clou'' *2005: Hafid Aggoune for ''Les Avenirs'' *2006: Ivan Farron for ''Les Déménagements inopportuns'' *2007:

Grégoire Polet Grégoire Polet (15 April 1978, Uccle) is a Belgian writer and poet. Biography Also a translator, Grégoire is a Doctor of Arts of the Université catholique de Louvain, specializing in Spanish literature. He is now a full-time writer and l ...

for ''Leurs Vies éclatantes'' *2008:

Jean-Baptiste Del Amo Jean-Baptiste Garcia (born 25 November 1981), known by the pen name Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, is a French writer. He was born in Toulouse. Selected works * ''Ne rien faire et autres nouvelles'' (2006). * ''Une éducation libertine'' (2008). ''A Lib ...

for ''Une éducation libertine'' *2010: Pauline Klein for ''Alice Kahn'' *2011: Justine Augier for ''En règle avec la nuit'' *2012: Guillaume Louet for having established, prefaced and annotated the ''Écrits critiques'' of Jean José Marchand *2013: Thomas Augais for his work of poetry ''Vers Baïkal (mitraille)'' *2014: unawarded *2015: Miguel Bonnefoy for ''Le voyage d'Octavio'' *2016: Colombe Boncenne for ''Comme neige'' *2017: Fanny Taillandier for ''Les États et empires du lotissement Grand siècle'' *2018: Julia Kerninon for ''Ma dévotion'' *2019: Isabelle Mayault for ''Une longue nuit mexicaine'' *2020: for ''Les Corps insurgés''

References

External links

Pris Fénéon
on the site of the Académie française
Prix Fénéon
on the site of the Centre national des arts plastiques

on Prix-littéraire.net {{DEFAULTSORT:Feneon Prize French literary awards Visual arts awards Awards established in 1949 University of Paris 1949 establishments in France

Recipients

Art

Literature

See also

References

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