Edition 2017


Une histoire mondiale du communisme,
3 tomes, Grasset, 2015 and 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 it unfolded around the world; a historical investigation supported by impressive documentation, based on numerous, meticulously analysed sources, in which the writer takes the unique point of view of an individual defeated by history at the centre of the account.”

Invisible Libraries,
Yoda Press, 2016
Proposed by Charles Dantzig

Une histoire mondiale du communisme,
3 tomes, Grasset, 2014, 2015 et 2017
Proposed by Vera Michalski-Hoffmann

Die Wiedergeburt der Ameisen. Roman,
Aus dem Chinesischen von Karin Betz, S. Fischer Verlag, 2016
Proposed by Ilma Rakusa

When Breath Becomes Air,
Random House, 2016
Proposed by Shashi Tharoor

Swallowing Mercury,
Translated from the Polish by Eliza Marciniak, Portobello Books, 2017
Proposed by Jacek Dehnel

Invisible Libraries,
Yoda Press, 2016
Proposed by Charles Dantzig

Une histoire mondiale du communisme,
3 tomes, Grasset, 2014, 2015 et 2017
Proposed by Vera Michalski-Hoffmann

Die Wiedergeburt der Ameisen. Roman,
Aus dem Chinesischen von Karin Betz, S. Fischer Verlag, 2016
Proposed by Ilma Rakusa

When Breath Becomes Air,
Random House, 2016
Proposed by Shashi Tharoor

Swallowing Mercury,
Translated from the Polish by Eliza Marciniak, Portobello Books, 2017
Proposed by Jacek Dehnel

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World,
Bloomsbury, 2015
Proposed by Shashi Tharoor

Invisible Libraries,
Yoda Press, 2016
Proposed by Charles Dantzig

Solo ombre, Silhouettes storiche, letterarie e mondane,
Archinto, 2017
Proposed by Charles Dantzig

L’état actuel des choses,
Al Manar, 2012
Proposed by Etel Adnan

Im Schatten der Mohnblüte. Roman,
Haymon Verlag, 2014
Proposed by Andreï Kourkov

Une histoire mondiale du communisme,
3 tomes, Grasset, 2014, 2015 et 2017
Proposed by Vera Michalski-Hoffmann

Die Wiedergeburt der Ameisen. Roman,
Translated from Chinese by Karin Betz, S. Fischer Verlag, 2016
Proposed by Ilma Rakusa