Communiqué de presse Prix Jan Michalski 2021
Montricher, Tuesday 23 November 2021 The Jan Michalski Prize for Literature 2021 has been awarded to Memorial International, Alena Kozlova, Nikolai Mikhailov, Irina Ostrovskaya and Irina Scherbakova for the collective work Знак не сотрется. Судьбы остарбайтеров в письмах, воспоминаниях и устных рассказах (Мемориа́л, 2016), translated from the Russian by Georgia Thomson under the title OST: Letters, Memoirs and […]
Communiqué de presse Prix Jan Michalski 2020
Montricher, Friday 4 December 2020 The 2020 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature has been awarded to Mia Couto for his trilogy As areias do imperador (Editorial Caminho, 2015-2017), translated in French from the Portuguese of Mozambique by Elisabeth Monteiro Rodrigues (Les sables de l’empereur, Éditions Métailié, 2020; the English version, Sands of the Emperor, is […]
Press release 2019 Jan Michalski Prize
Montricher, 4 December 2019 The 2019 Jan Michalski Prize has been awarded to Zeruya Shalev for her novel Douleur (Gallimard, 2017; published in English as Pain: A Novel, Other Press, 2019). The jury hailed ‘a dizzying novel in which the author explores the physiological and emotional territories of suffering, where the characters’ past and present […]
Press release Exhibition Anselm Kiefer
Montricher, Friday, 8 February 2019 The German artist Anselm Kiefer (*1945, Donaueschingen) long hesitated between two practices, writing and painting. Although it was the latter he eventually chose, literature continues to play a preponderant role in his body of work. Through their materiality and esthetic, books were the first support for his artmaking, and writing […]
Press release 2018 Jan Michalski Prize
Montricher, Wednesday, 21st November The 2018 Jan Michalski Prize was awarded to Olga Tokarczuk for her novel The Books of Jacob (Księgi Jakubowe, Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2014) translated from Polish by Maryla Laurent and published in French by Noir sur Blanc entitled Les livres de Jakób. The jury praised: “a work of immense erudition with a […]
Press release Jan Michalski Prize 2017
Montricher, November 22nd 2017 The 2017 Jan Michalski Prize is awarded to the French writer Thierry Wolton for the three volumes of Une histoire mondiale du communisme [A World History of Communism], published by Grasset. The jury praised “the immense and comprehensive achievement, which represents the first attempt to give a global vision of communism as […]
Press Release Exhibition « Jacques Prévert | Images »
17 February – 30 April 2017 Montricher, 9 February 2017 The French lyricist, poet, and author of plays, scripts and movie dialogue Jacques Prévert (1900-1977) is mostly known today for his writings. Part of the Surrealists’ circle in his youth, this fiercely independent yet politically committed man would maintain throughout his life strong ties with a […]
Press release Jan Michalski Prize 2016
Press release Montricher, Novembre 23rd 2016 The jury of the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature has rewarded the Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov this year for his work The Physics of Sorrow: a labyrinth-novel, a world-novel, that explores the meanders of individual and collective memory in the search for humanity; a fantastic story chest that is […]
Press release Jan Michalski Prize 2015
Press release Montricher, 25th November 2015 The jury of the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature has awarded this year’s prize to the British historian Mark Thompson for Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kiš. This book looks at the life and writing of Danilo Kiš, a Yugoslav novelist, essayist and poet. It restores Kiš to […]
Communiqué de presse Exposition Pierre-Alain Bertola | Ecritures graphiques
Communiqué de presse Pierre-Alain Bertola (1956-2012) a joué tout au long de sa carrière sur un large registre de talents artistiques. Architecte, graphiste, affichiste, plasticien et scénographe, il a également développé une remarquable activité d’illustrateur et de bédéiste, collaborant avec des maisons d’édition ainsi qu’avec la presse. Aux sources du dessin de Pierre-Alain Bertola se […]
