Annie Ernaux receives the 2021 Prince Pierre of Monaco Foundation Prize
Chaired by Her Royal Highness the Princess of Hanover, the literary council of the Prince Pierre of Monaco Foundation awarded, Tuesday, October 12, its literary prizes to the Monte-Carlo opera in Monaco.
Annie ernaux received the Prince Pierre of Monaco literary prize, endowed with 25,000 euros, for all of his work. Born in 1940 in Seine-Maritime, she is a professor of literature and a writer. Author of around twenty mainly autobiographical works published by Gallimard, she notably won the Renaudot 1984 for The place and the Marguerite-Duras and François-Mauriac awards in 2008 for Years. Abroad, she was distinguished in 2016 by the Strega Prize for European Literature. More recently, in 2017, she received the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her body of work.
At the same time, the Discovery Grant, organized for 12,000 euros by the Princess Grace Foundation, was announced at Abigail Assor to pay As rich as the king, published in January by Gallimard. In this first novel, she stages a love story between high school students from different social strata in Casablanca, in the 1990s.
At the same time, the High School Students’ Favorite, endowed with 6,000 euros, went to Roukiata Ouédraogo to pay Honey under the pancakes (Slatkine & co).
The literary council for the literary prizes of the Prince Pierre of Monaco Foundation is made up of Jean Clair, Hélène Carrère d’Encausse, Dany Laferrière, Marc Lambron, Amin Maalouf, Jean-Marie Rouart, Jean-Christophe Rufin, Frédéric Vitoux, Tahar Ben Jelloun , Philippe Claudel, Paule Constant, Marie-Claire Blais, François Debluë and Alain Mabanckou. The honorary members are René de Obaldia, Pierre Rosenberg and Antoine Maillet.
In 2020, Christian Bobin was awarded the literary prize while the Discovery Grant distinguished Salomé Berlemont-Gilles for her first novel, The first to fall, published by Grasset.