The Grand Prix de la

francophonie The Francophonie or Francophone world is the whole body of people and organisations around the world who use the French language regularly for private or public purposes. The term was coined by Onésime Reclus in 1880 and became important a ...

is presented annually by the

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at the initiative of the Canadian Government to a personality who contributes to the development of the

French language French ( or ) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European family. Like all other Romance languages, it descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. French evolved from Northern Old Gallo-R ...

throughout the world.

Laureates

* 1986: Georges Schehadé * 1987: Yoichi Maeda * 1988:

Jacques Rabemananjara Jacques Rabemananjara (23 June 1913 – 2 April 2005) was a Madagascar, Malagasy politician, playwright and poet. He served as a government minister, rising to Vice President of Madagascar. Rabemananjara was said to be the most prolific write ...

* 1989: Hubert Reeves * 1990: Albert Cossery * 1991: Léon-Joseph Suenens * 1992: Khac Vien Nguyen and Maurice Métral and Stig Strömholm * 1993: Henri Lopes * 1994:

Mohammed Dib Mohammed Dib (; 21 July 1920 – 2 May 2003) was an Algerian author. He wrote over 30 novels, as well as numerous short stories, poems, and children's literature in the French language. His work covers the breadth of 19th century Algerian history ...

* 1995: Salah Stétié * 1996: Abdou Diouf * 1997: Abdellatif Berbich * 1998: Jean Starobinski * 1999: Gunnar von Proschwitz * 2000: Giovanni Macchia * 2001: François Cheng * 2002: Bronislaw Geremek * 2003: Édouard J. Maunick * 2004:

Albert Memmi Albert Memmi (; 15 December 1920 – 22 May 2020) was a French-Tunisian writer and essayist of Tunisian Jewish origins. A prominent intellectual, his nonfiction books and novels explored his complex identity as an anti-imperialist, deeply re ...

* 2005: Jane Conroy * 2006: Roland Mortier * 2007:

Élie Barnavi Élie Barnavi (; born 1946) is an Israeli historian and diplomat, who was the Israeli ambassador to France between 2000 and 2002. Born in Bucharest he moved as a child to Tel Aviv, Israel. He authored some fifteen books on France and Europe in t ...

* 2008: Lide Tan * 2009: Thomas W. Gaehtgens * 2010: Jean Métellus * 2011: Abdellatif Laâbi and Dariush Shayegan * 2012: Dariush Shayegan and Michèle Rakotoson * 2013: Qiang Dong and Boualem Sansal * 2014: Georges Banu and Fouad Laroui * 2015: Gabriel Garran and Aminata Sow Fall * 2016: Takeshi Matsumura and

Stromae Paul Van Haver (; born 12 March 1985), better known by his stage name Stromae (), is a Belgian singer, rapper, songwriter and record producer. He is best known for his music, which is a blend of hip-hop and electronic music styles. Stromae came ...

* 2017: François Boustani and Tierno Monénembo * 2018:

Kamel Daoud Kamel Daoud (; born June 17, 1970) is an Algerian writer and journalist. He currently edits the French-language daily '' Le quotidien d’Oran,'' for which he writes a popular column, "Raïna Raïkoum" (Our Opinion, Your Opinion). The column oft ...

and

Michel Tremblay Michel Tremblay (born 25 June 1942) is a Canadian writer, novelist and playwright. Tremblay was born in Montreal, Quebec, where he grew up in the French-speaking neighbourhood of Plateau Mont-Royal; at the time of his birth, a neighbourhood ...

* 2019: Petr Král and Abdeljalil Lahjomri and Jean Pruvost * 2020: Lise Gauvin and Alexandre Najjar * 2021: Frankétienne

Laureates

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