The Roger Nimier Prize () is a French literature award. It is supposed to go to "a young author whose spirit is in line with the literary works of

Roger Nimier Roger Nimier (31 October 1925 – 28 September 1962) was a French novelist. Life Nimier was born in Paris, and served in the French Army, specifically in the 2nd Hussard Regiment in the Second World War (until 1945). He began to write quite early ...

". Nimier (1925–1962) was a novelist and a leading member of the Hussards movement. The prize was established in 1963 at the initiative of André Parinaud and

Denis Huisman Denis Huisman (13 April 1929 – 2 February 2021) was a French academic and writer. Biography Denis was born to Georges Huisman and Marcelle Wogue in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. His family was Jewish. On 8 April 1949, he married Gisèle C ...

and is handed out annually during the second half of May. It comes with a sum of 5000

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Recipients

* 1963: Jean Freustié for ''La Passerelle'',

Éditions Grasset Éditions Grasset () is a French publishing house founded in 1907 by (1881–1955). Grasset publishes French and foreign literature, essays, novels and children's books, among others. Bernard Grasset sold ownership of the company to Hachette ...

* 1964: André de Richaud for ''Je ne suis pas mort'',

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* 1966: Clément Rosset for ''Lettre sur les chimpanzés'',

Éditions Gallimard Éditions Gallimard (), formerly Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française (1911–1919) and Librairie Gallimard (1919–1961), is one of the leading French book publishers. In 2003, it and its subsidiaries published 1,418 titles. Founded by G ...

* 1967:

Éric Ollivier Éric Ollivier, pseudonym for Yves Duparc, (21 November 1926 – 30 January 2015) was a French writer, screenwriter and journalist, laureate of several French literary awards. Biography Youth Éric Ollivier's mother (Theresa Marie Ourvouai) ...

for ''J'ai cru trop longtemps aux vacances'',

Éditions Denoël Éditions Denoël is a French publishing house founded in 1930. Acquired by Éditions Gallimard in 1951, it publishes collections spanning fiction, non-fiction and comic books. It published some of the most important French authors of the interwa ...

* 1968:

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. I ...

for '' La Place de l'Étoile'', Gallimard * 1969: Michel Doury for ''L'Indo'',

Éditions Julliard Éditions Julliard is a French publishing house. It was founded in 1942 by René Julliard. Julliard was known as a discoverer and publisher of talents, in particular Françoise Sagan and Jean d'Ormesson. After Julliard's death in July 1962, the ...

* 1970: Robert Quatrepoint for ''Mort d'un Grec'', Denoël * 1971: François Sonkin for ''Les Gendres'', Denoël * 1972: ex-aequo Claude Breuer for ''Une journée un peu chaude'', Éditions France-Empire * 1972: ex-aequo

André Thirion André Thirion (14 July 1907 – 4 January 2001) was a French writer, a member of the group of Surrealism, surrealists, a theorist and political activist. Biography After becoming a trade unionist, he turned to communism, a party he joined in ...

for ''Révolutionnaires sans révolution'',

Éditions Robert Laffont Éditions Robert Laffont () is a book publishing company in France founded in 1941 by (1916–2010). Its publications are distributed in almost all francophone countries, but mainly in France, Canada and in Belgium. Imprints belonging to Édit ...

* 1973: Inès Cagnati for ''Le jour de congé'', Denoël * 1974: François Weyergans for ''Le Pitre'', Gallimard * 1975: Frédéric Musso for ''La Déesse'',

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* 1976:

Alexandre Astruc Alexandre Astruc (; 13July 192319May 2016) was a French film critic and film director. Biography Before becoming a film director, he was a journalist, novelist and film critic. His contribution to the auteur theory centers on his notion of th ...

for ''Ciel de cendres'', * 1977:

Emil Cioran Emil Mihai Cioran (; ; ; 8 April 1911 – 20 June 1995) was a Romanian philosopher, aphorist and essayist, who published works in both Romanian and French. His work has been noted for its pervasive philosophical pessimism, style, and aphorism ...

for all his work * 1978:

Érik Orsenna Érik Orsenna is the pen-name of Érik Arnoult (born 22 March 1947) a French politician and novelist. After studying philosophy and political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris ("Sciences Po"), Orsenna specialized in economi ...

for ''La Vie comme à Lausanne'',

Éditions du Seuil Éditions du Seuil (), also known as Le Seuil, is a French publishing house established in 1935 by Catholic intellectual Jean Plaquevent (1901–1965), and currently owned by La Martinière Groupe. It owes its name to this goal "The ''seuil'' (th ...

* 1979:

Pascal Sevran Pascal Sevran (16 October 1945 – 9 May 2008) was a French TV presenter and author. Biography Son of a communist taxi driver, and a Spanish seamstress, Pascal Sevran was born on 16 October 1945 in Paris. His real name was Jean-Claude Jouhaud. He ...

for ''Le Passé supplémentaire'', * 1980:

Gérard Pussey Gérard Pussey (born 20 June 1947) is a French writer and novelist. Born in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges. A journalist and literary critic, Pussey is first of all a novelist. Initiated to literature by his uncle, the writer and screenwriter René Fa ...

for ''L'Homme d'intérieur'', Denoël * 1981:

Bernard Frank Bernard Frank (11 October 1929 – 3 November 2006) was a French journalist and writer. Early life Bernard Frank was raised in a comfortable family, where his father was a bank manager. After his baccalauréat, he started a Khâgne at the ...

for ''Solde'',

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* 1982: Jean Rolin for ''Journal de Gand aux Aléoutiennes'',

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* 1983: Denis Tillinac for ''L'Été anglais'', Robert Laffont * 1984: Didier Van Cauwelaert for ''Poisson d'amour'', Seuil * 1985: Antoine Roblot for ''Un beau match'', La Table Ronde * 1986: Jacques-Pierre Amette for ''Confessions d'un enfant gâté'', Olivier Orban * 1987: Alain Dugrand for ''Une certaine sympathie'', JC Lattès * 1988:

Jean-Claude Guillebaud Jean-Claude Guillebaud (born 21 May 1944 in Algiers) is a French writer, essayist, lecturer and journalist. Biography A journalist at the daily '' Sud Ouest'', then at the newspaper ''Le Monde'' and the weekly ''Le Nouvel Observateur'', Jean-C ...

for ''Le Voyage à Kéren'',

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* 1989: Frédéric Berthet for ''Daimler s'en va'', La Table ronde * 1990:

Éric Neuhoff Éric Neuhoff (born 4 July 1956) is a French novelist and journalist. He debuted in 1982 as a journalist at '' Le Quotidien de Paris'' and used a style nicknamed "néo-hussard", after the Hussards (literary movement), Hussards movement of the 195 ...

for ''Les Hanches de Lætitia'',

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* 1991:

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for ''Château Bougon'', Albin Michel * 1992: François Taillandier for ''Les Nuits Racine'', * 1993:

Dominique Muller Dominique Muller in 2010 Dominique Muller, real name Dominique Muller-Wakhevitch, (9 August 1949, Strasbourg) is a French journalist and novelist, author of several historical mysteries. Biography For several years Dominique Muller was a l ...

for ''C'était le paradis'', Seuil * 1994:

Stéphane Denis Stéphane Denis (1949, St. Moritz) is a French journalist and writer. Biography After working in ministerial offices in the late 1970s, he first worked for ''Le Quotidien de Paris'', then for ''Paris Match'', ''Marianne (magazine), Marianne'' ...

for ''Les événements de 67'', Plon * 1995:

Dominique Noguez Dominique Noguez, (12 September 1942 – 15 March 2019) was a French writer. He won the Prix Femina in 1997, for ''Amour noir''. He taught the history of film at the Sorbonne. He was an early defender of Michel Houellebecq Michel Houellebecq ...

for ''Les Martagons'', Gallimard * 1996:

Éric Holder Éric Holder (5 April 1960 – 22 January 2019) was a French novelist. His novels, '' Mademoiselle Chambon'', '' L'Homme de chevet'' and ' were adapted to the cinema in 2009 and 2012. He was awarded several literary prizes, including the Prix lit ...

for ''En compagnie des femmes'', * 1997: Jean-Paul Kauffmann for ''La Chambre noire de Longwood: le voyage à Sainte-Hélène'', La Table ronde * 1998: Jérôme Garcin for ''La Chute de cheval'', Gallimard * 1999:

Marc Dugain Marc Dugain (born 1957) is a French novelist and film director, best known for (English, '' The Officers' Ward'') (1999), a novel set in World War I. Dugain was born in Senegal and studied at the Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble. He wo ...

for '' The Officers' Ward'' (''La Chambre des officiers''), JC Lattès * 2000:

Arnaud Guillon Arnaud Guillon (born 1964 in Caen) is a contemporary French writer, the winner of the Prix Roger Nimier in 2000 for his novel ''Écume Palace'' and the Prix Henri de Régnier in 2015 for ''Tableau de chasse, une passion très coupable''. Works ...

for ''Écume Palace'', Arléa * 2001: Charles Dantzig for ''Nos vies hâtives'', Grasset * 2002: Nicolas d'Estienne d'Orves alias Néo for ''Othon ou l'aurore immobile'', Manitoba-Les Belles lettres * 2003:

Marie-Claire Pauwels Marie-Claire Pauwels (3 September 1945, 15th arrondissement of Paris – 22 May 2011) was a French journalist, the daughter of Suzanne Brégeon and Louis Pauwels. In April 1980, she launched the magazine '' Madame Figaro'' of which she became the ...

for ''Fille à papa'', Albin Michel * 2004: ex-aequo David Foenkinos for ''Le Potentiel érotique de ma femme'', Gallimard * 2004: ex-aequo Adrien Goetz for ''La Dormeuse de Naples'', * 2005: Bernard Chapuis for ''La Vie parlée'',

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* 2006:

Christian Authier Christian Authier, born 1969 in Toulouse, is a French writer and journalist. He has a master's degree in history from the University of Toulouse II and a degree from the Institut d'études politiques de Toulouse. His second novel, ''Les Liens dé ...

for ''Les liens défaits'', Stock * 2007: Jean-Marc Parisis for ''Avant, pendant, après'', Stock * 2008: Yannick Haenel for ''Cercle'', L'Infini * 2009: Xavier Patier for ''Le silence des termites'', La Table Ronde * 2010: Nelly Alard for ''Le Crieur de nuit'', Gallimard * 2011:

Françoise Dorner Françoise Dorner (born 17 June 1949, Paris) is a French actress, screenwriter, playwright and novelist. Biography Actress Dorner made her cinema debut in 1975 thanks to Éric Le Hung, who cast her in one of the main roles in '' Raging Fists'' ...

for ''Tartelettes, jarretelles et bigorneaux'', Albin Michel * 2012: Jean-Luc Coatalem for ''Le Gouverneur d'Antipodia'', Le Dilettante * 2013: Capucine Motte for ''Apollinaria'', JC Lattès * 2014: David Le Bailly for ''La Captive de Mitterrand'', Stock * 2015: Émilie de Turckheim for ''La Disparition du nombril'', * 2016: Paul Greveillac for ''Les Âmes rouges'', Gallimard *2017 : Pierre Adrian for ''Des âmes simples'', Equateurs *2019 : Arnaud de la Grange for ''Le Huitième Soir'', Gallimard *2020 : not attributed *2021 : not attributed *2022 : Céline Laurens for ''Là où la caravane passe'', Albin Michel *2023 : Paul Pavlowitch for ''Tous immortels'', Buchet Chastel

References

{{Hussards (literary movement) Awards established in 1963 French literary awards 1963 establishments in France