Mallarmé prize

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The Mallarmé prize (Prix de poésie de l’Académie Mallarmé, in French) is a poetry prize awarded each year by the Académie Mallarmé to a French speaking poet.

To be eligible for the prize the poet must have published a piece in the year concerned, even though the prize does not reward a specific piece of poetry but the author's work all along his career as a whole - something the media often forgets. The prize may only be won once.

The prize is awarded on the occasion of la Foire du livre which takes place in Brive-la-Gaillarde, in the département of Corrèze, région Limousin, France. The cash prize amounts to € 3,811 (25,000 FF). Over the past three years it has been financed through sponsorship from the company ISS; previously it was sponsored by the Mairie of Brives.

[edit] Winners

This is an incomplete list of authors having won the prize:

Year	Author	Published work nominated
2006	Michel Butor	16 lustres
2005	Hélène Dorion	Ravir : les lieux
2004	Olivier Barbarant	Essais de voix malgré le vent
2003	Alain Veinstein	Tout se passe comme si
2000	André Schmitz	Incises, Incisions
1998	Mohamed Dib	L'Enfant-Jazz
1989	Guy Goffette	Eloge pour une cuisine de province
1987	Venus Khoury-Ghata	Monologue du mort
1986	Henri Meschonnic	Voyageurs de la voix
1981	Lionel Ray	Le corps obscur

[edit] Académie Mallarmé (the Mallarmé Academy)

The Mallarmé Academy was founded in 1937. It is a French not-for-profit association (a "1901 law association"), founded in commemoration of Stéphane Mallarmé, by people who knew him.

It's main objective is the promotion of poetry, and for a long time it was presided over by Guillevic and Alain Bosquet. It consists of thirty French or French speaking members and 15 foreign correspondents. Notable members include Jean Orizet, Marie-Claire Bancquart, Lionel Ray, Claude-Michel Cluny, François Montmaneix, Robert Sabatier, Jean Rousselot, Michel Deguy, Charles Dobzinski, Philippe Jones, Jean-Michel Maulpoix, Henri Meschonnic, Pierre Oster, Vénus Khoury-Ghata; and the foreign correspondents are Ismaël Kadaré, Seamus Heaney and Andrei Vossnessenski.

The academy seeks to promote poetry and organises poetry readings as well as the annual award of the Mallarmé prize. The Academy also seeks to promote the work of Stéphane Mallarmé, which is now in the public domain (since he died more than a hundred years ago).
The association does not appear to have a website, but may be contacted at

Société des Gens de Lettres, Hôtel Massa

38, rue du Fbg St Jacques

75014 Paris

France