The Henry Malherbe Prize is a French

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created in 1953 by the . Named for Henry Malherbe, who received the

Prix Goncourt The Prix Goncourt ( , "The Goncourt Prize") is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year". The prize carries a symbolic reward of only 10 euros, but resul ...

in 1917, it is awarded every year for an

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List of winners

*1963 -

Bernard Gavoty Bernard Georges-Marie Gavoty (2 April 1908 – 24 October 1981) was a 20th-century French organist, musicologist, music critic and talk show host. Biography Bernard Gavoty was born in 1908 to Raymond Gavoty (a deputy of the Var department; 11 Ma ...

*1964 - Jean Toulat *1965 - André Jean Ducasse *1966 - René-Gustave Nobécourt *1967 -

André Latreille André — sometimes transliterated as Andre — is the French and Portuguese language, Portuguese form of the name Andrew and is now also used in the English-speaking world. It used in France, Quebec, Canada and other French language, French-spe ...

*1968 - André Brissaud *1969 - Janine Weill *1970 -

Louise Weiss Louise Weiss (25 January 1893 – 26 May 1983) was a French author, journalist, feminist, and European Union, European politician. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971 Nobel Peace Prize, 1971 and for the Nobel Prize in Literatur ...

*1971 - Christian Bernadac *1972 - Raymond Leopold Bruckberger *1973 -

Pierre Billotte Pierre Armand Gaston Billotte (8 March 1906 – 29 June 1992) was a French Army officer and politician. He was the son of General Gaston Billotte, who commanded parts of the French Army at the start of World War II. Pierre Billotte was himself n ...

*1974 - Alain Griotteray *1975 -

Georges Poisson Georges Poisson (27 November 1924 – 14 May 2022) was a French art historian. Poisson was born in Düsseldorf on 27 November 1924. A nephew of demographer Alfred Sauvy, and journalist Titaÿna, Georges Poisson was the son of journalist Claude S ...

*1976 -

Michel Droit Michel Droit (23 January 192322 June 2000) was a French novelist and journalist. He was the father of the photographer Éric Droit (1954–2007). Biography After studying at the Faculté des lettres de Paris and Sciences Po, Droit joined the arm ...

*1977 - Pierre-Paul Grasse *1978 -

Jean-Émile Charon Jean-Émile Charon (; 25 February 1920, in Paris – June 1998, in Paris) was a French nuclear physicist, philosopher and writer. He was the author of over 20 books on physics, scientific philosophy, and computer science. He conducted nuclear res ...

*1979 - André Piettre *1980 -

Suzanne Labin Suzanne Labin (6 May 1913 – 22 January 2001) was a French Socialist writer and political scientist, known particularly for her anti-communism, Totalitarianism, anti-totalitarianism and pro-democracy writings. Writings and reviews In reviewing of ...

*1981 -

André Gillois Maurice Diamant-Berger (8 February 1902 – 18 June 2004), known as André Gillois, was a French writer, radio pioneer and - during the Second World War - general Charles de Gaulle's spokesman in London. Life Before the war he worked for the c ...

*1982 -

Frédérique Hébrard Frédérique Hébrard (7 June 1927 – 7 September 2023) was a French screenwriter and actress. She was born Frédérique Chamson. Her parents were academician André Chamson and Lucie Mazauric, both historians and museum curators. In the film Th ...

*1983 - Jacques Bloch-Morange *1984 -

Yves Coppens Yves Coppens (9 August 1934 – 22 June 2022) was a French anthropologist and co-discoverer of "Lucy". A graduate from the University of Rennes and the Sorbonne, he studied ancient hominids and had multiple published works on this topic, and a ...

*1985 -

Jean Hamburger Jean Hamburger (15 July 1909 – 1 February 1992) was a French physician, surgeon and essayist. He is particularly known for his contribution to nephrology, and for having performed the first renal transplantation in France in 1952. Biograph ...

*1986 - Jean-André Renoux *1987 -

Bernard Destremau Bernard Destremau (; 11 February 1917 – 6 June 2002) was a French tennis player, tank officer, diplomat and politician. Biography Born in Paris into a military family, Destremau was the third son of a WWI cavalry general. His success in accom ...

and Albert Chambon *1988 - Claude des Presles *1989 -

Pierre Deniker Pierre Deniker (16 February 1917, in Paris – 17 August 1998) was involved, jointly with Jean Delay and J. M. Harl, in the introduction of chlorpromazine (Thorazine), the first antipsychotic used in the treatment of schizophrenia, in the 1950s.K ...

*1990 - Anne Muratori-Philip *1991 - Jean-Jacques Antier *1992 - Bernard Pierre *1993 -

Jacques Chaban-Delmas Jacques Chaban-Delmas (; 7 March 1915 – 10 November 2000) was a French Gaullist politician. He served as Prime Minister under Georges Pompidou from 1969 to 1972. He was the Mayor of Bordeaux from 1947 to 1995 and a deputy for the Gironde ''d ...

*1994 -

Michel Debré Michel Jean-Pierre Debré (; 15 January 1912 – 2 August 1996) was the first Prime Minister of the French Fifth Republic. He is considered the "father" of the current Constitution of France. He served under President Charles de Gaulle from 1959 ...

*1995 -

Alain Peyrefitte Alain Peyrefitte (; 26 August 1925 – 27 November 1999) was a French scholar and politician. He was a confidant of Charles de Gaulle and had a long career in public service, serving as a diplomat in Germany and Poland. Peyrefitte is remembered ...

*1996 - Jean-Pierre Bois *1998 - Hélène Simon *1999 - Claire Daudin *2001 -

Étienne de Montety Étienne de Montety (born 2 May 1965 in 15th arrondissement of Paris) is a French writer and journalist.Who's Who in France, édition 2008, page 1603 Biography Étienne de Montety studied at the University of Paris X-Nanterre, where he obtained ...

*2002 - Xavier Boniface *2003 - Philippe Masson *2004 - Arnaud Tessier *2005 - François Kersa *2006 - Annie Laurent *2008 - Stéphanie Petit *2009 - Nicolas Beaupré *2010 -

Antony Beevor Sir Antony James Beevor, (born 14 December 1946) is a British military historian. He has published several popular historical works, mainly on the Second World War, the Spanish Civil War, and most recently the Russian Revolution and Civil War. ...

*2011 -

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing Valéry René Marie Georges Giscard d'Estaing (, ; ; 2 February 19262 December 2020), also known as simply Giscard or VGE, was a French politician who served as President of France from 1974 to 1981. After serving as Ministry of the Economy ...

*2012 - Paul-François Paoli *2013 -

François d'Orcival Amaury de Chaunac-Lanzac (; born 11 February 1942), better known as François d'Orcival (), is a French conservative journalist and essayist. He is the president of the editorial committee at '' Valeurs Actuelles'' and sits on the board of direct ...

*2014 - Alain Gérard *2015 - François-Xavier Bellamy *2016 - Arnaud Benedetti and Charles-Louis Foulon *2017-

Jean-Noël Jeanneney Jean-Noël Jeanneney (born 2 April 1942, in Grenoble) is a French historian and politician. He is the son of Jean-Marcel Jeanneney and the grandson of Jules Jeanneney, both important figures in French politics. Education After his secondary sch ...

References

List of winners
French literary awards Awards established in 1953 {{lit-award-stub