The Prix de Flore is a French

literary prize A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. Man ...

founded in 1994 by

Frédéric Beigbeder Frédéric Beigbeder (; born 21 September 1965) is a French writer, literary critic and television presenter. He won the Prix Interallié in 2003 for his novel '' Windows on the World'' and the Prix Renaudot in 2009 for his book '' A French Nov ...

. The aim of the prize is to reward youthful authors and it is judged by a panel of journalists. It is awarded yearly in November, at the

Café de Flore Café de Flore () is one of the oldest coffeehouses in Paris, known for its emblematic shopfront and celebrated for its famous clientele, which in the past included influential writers, philosophers, and members of Parisian high society (tout-Par ...

in Paris. The prize only applies to

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

, even though the author does not have to be French.

Bruce Benderson Bruce Benderson (born August 6, 1946) is an American author, born to parents of Russian Jewish descent, who lives in New York. He attended William Nottingham High School (1964) in Syracuse, New York and then Binghamton University (1969). He is toda ...

was the first non-French author to receive the prize, in 2004, for the novel ''Autobiographie érotique'' (released in English as '' The Romanian: Story of an Obsession''). The laureate of the Prix de Flore wins about 6,000 Euros and is entitled to drink a glass of

Pouilly-Fumé Pouilly-Fumé () is an ''appellation d'origine contrôlée'' (AOC) for the dry sauvignon blanc white wine produced around Pouilly-sur-Loire, in the Nièvre département. Another white wine produced in the same area but with a different grape var ...

, a white wine from the

Loire The Loire ( , , ; ; ; ; ) is the longest river in France and the 171st longest in the world. With a length of , it drains , more than a fifth of France's land, while its average discharge is only half that of the Rhône. It rises in the so ...

region of France, at the

every day for a year. The laureate's name is engraved on the glass.

Laureates

* 1994: ''Cantique de la racaille'' by Vincent Ravalec * 1995: ''Le Pas du loup'' by Jacques A. Bertrand * 1996: '' Le Sens du combat'' by

Michel Houellebecq Michel Houellebecq (; born Michel Thomas on 26 February 1956) is a French author of novels, poems, and essays, as well as an occasional actor, filmmaker, and singer. His first book was a biographical essay on the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. H ...

* 1997: ''Le Chameau sauvage'' by

Philippe Jaenada Philippe Jaenada (; born 1964 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye) is a French writer. The author of over a dozen books, he won the Prix Femina The Prix Femina is a French List of literary awards, literary prize awarded each year by an exclusively fema ...

* 1998: ''Les Jolies Choses'' by

Virginie Despentes Virginie Despentes (; born 13 June 1969) is a French writer, novelist, and filmmaker. She is known for her work exploring gender, sexuality, and people who live in poverty or other marginalised conditions. Work Despentes' work is an inventory o ...

* 1999: ''Nicolas Pages'' by

Guillaume Dustan Guillaume Dustan (28 November 1965, Paris – 3 October 2005) was an coming out, openly gay French people, French writer. Dustan's 1998 novel, ''In My Room'', brought the author instant notoriety for his masterful use of autofiction and depi ...

* 2000: ''Mémoire courte'' by

Nicolas Rey Nicolas Rey is a French writer born in Evreux, Eure, on 8 May 1973. History In 2000, Rey received the "Prix de Flore", a French literary prize awarded to youthful authors, for his novel ''Mémoire Courte''. Following his start on the French tel ...

* 2001: ''L'Empire de la morale'' by

Christophe Donner Christophe may refer to: People * Christophe (name), list of people with this given name or surname * Christophe (singer) (1945–2020), French singer * Cristophe (hairstylist) (born 1958), Belgian hairstylist * Georges Colomb (1856–1945), Frenc ...

* 2002: ''Rapport sur moi'' by

Grégoire Bouillier Grégoire Bouillier (born 22 June 1960 in Tizi Ouzou, Algeria) is a French memoirist who wrote ''Rapport sur moi'' (''Report on Myself'') and ''L'invité mystère'' (''The Mystery Guest''). ''Rapport sur moi'' won the Prix de Flore in 2002. Bouil ...

* 2003: ''Mammifères'' by Pierre Mérot * 2004: ''

Autobiographie érotique ''The Romanian: Story of an Obsession'' is a true-to-life memoir by Bruce Benderson. The autobiographical text describes Benderson's encounters and journeys with a male Romanian street hustler through Romania and Hungary, whom he meets while on ...

'' by

* 2005: ''Boys boys boys'' by Joy Sorman * 2006: ''Rendez-vous'' by Christine Angot * 2007: '' Ni d'Ève ni d'Adam'' by

Amélie Nothomb Baroness Fabienne Claire Nothomb (; born 13 August 1967''État présent de la noblesse belge'', éditions of 1979, 1995 and 2010. Her birth is announced in n° 87, aout 1967, p. 340 of the ''Bulletin de l'association de la noblesse du royaume de ...

* 2008: ''La meilleure part des hommes'' by Tristan Garcia * 2009: ''L'hyper Justine'' by Simon Liberati * 2010: ''Le jour du roi'' by

Abdellah Taïa Abdellah Taïa (; born 1973) is a Moroccan writer and filmmaker who writes in the French language and has been based in Paris since 1999. He has published nine novels, many of them heavily autobiographical. His books have been translated into A ...

* 2011: ''Du temps qu'on existait'' by Marien Defalvard * 2012: ''Zénith-Hôtel'' by Oscar Coop-Phane * 2013: ''Tout cela n'a rien à voir avec moi'' by Monica Sabolo * 2014: ''L'Aménagement du territoire'' by

Aurélien Bellanger Aurélien Bellanger, (born 20 April 1980 in Laval, Mayenne Laval () is a town in western France, about west-southwest of Paris, and the capital of the Mayenne departments of France, department. Its inhabitants are called ''Lavallois''. The c ...

* 2015: ''La Fleur du Capital'' by

Jean-Noël Orengo Jean-Noël is a French given name, composed of Jean and Noël. It may refer to: Persons Notable people with the name include: * Jean-Noël Augert (born 1949), French alpine skier * Jean-Noël Bongrain, founder of French dairy products corpo ...

* 2016: ''Double Nationalité'' by Nina Yargekov, * 2017: (ex-æquo), ' by Pierre Ducrozet

Actes Sud Actes Sud is a French publishing house based in Arles. It was founded in 1978 by author Hubert Nyssen. By 2013, the company, then headed by Nyssen's daughter, Françoise Nyssen, had an annual turnover of 60 million euros and 60 staff members. ...

* 2018: (ex-æquo), '' Paname Underground'' by , * 2018: ' by Raphaël Rupert * 2019: ' by Sofia Aouine * 2020 : ''La Grâce'' by

Thibault de Montaigu Thibault Tassin de Montaigu (born 21 December 1978 in Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French writer and journalist. Biography Thibault de Montaigu was born on 21 December 1978 in Boulogne-Billancourt to Françoise Gallimard and Emmanuel Tassin de ...

Éditions Plon Plon is a French book publishing company, founded in 1852 by Henri Plon and his two brothers. History The ''Éditions Plon'' were created in 1852, by Henri Plon and his two brothers. They were given the title of ''Imprimeur de l’Empereur'' (I ...

* 2021: ''Le Voyant d’Etampes'' by Abel Quentin, *2022: ''Chienne et louve'', by Joffrine Donnadieu, Gallimard *2023: ''Western'', by Maria Pourchet, Stock

References

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