Communiqué de presse Prix Jan Michalski 2021
2.12.2021
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...
Communiqué de presse Prix Jan Michalski 2020
9.12.2020
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...
Press release 2019 Jan Michalski Prize
4.12.2019
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
20.08.2019
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,...
Press release 2018 Jan Michalski Prize
21.11.2018
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 powerful...
Press release Jan Michalski Prize 2017
22.11.2017
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...
Press Release Exhibition « Jacques Prévert | Images »
13.02.2017
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...
Press release Jan Michalski Prize 2016
24.11.2016
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...
About the Jan Michalski Foundation
8.01.2016
16.01.2016 – RTS La 1ère : Les mécènes. Vera Michalski-Hoffmann invitée du 12.30…
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15.01.2016 – NZZ : Das ganze halbe Haus. Der Architekt Alejandro Aravena wird mit dem...
Press release Jan Michalski Prize 2015
25.11.2015
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 his essential position...
