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Jan Michalski Prize for Literature (French: Prix Jan Michalski) is a Swiss literary prize for any work of fiction or non-fiction published anywhere in the world in any language.[1][2] It is meant to recognize authors from around the world and world literature in general. The jury is multicultural and multilingual in composition.
The award was launched October 2009[1] and the first winner was announced November 2010. The winner receives CHF 50,000. The authors of finalists are invited for a three-month period of residence in the Maison de l'écriture.[3]
The prize was created by the Jan Michalski Foundation for Writing and Literature (Fondation Jan Michalski pour l’Ecriture et la Littérature), founded in 2004 at the initiative of Vera Michalski-Hoffmann in memory of her husband Jan Michalski.[4] It is located in Montricher, Switzerland.[5]
| Year | Author | Original title | English, French or German translation | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 |   Aleksandar Hemon |
The Lazarus Project | Winner | [6] | |
  Yousef Al-Mohaimeed |
فخاخ الرائحة | Wolves of the Crescent Moon | Finalists | ||
 Tim Flannery |
The Weather Makers | ||||
 Laurent Binet |
HHhH | Nominee | |||
 Péter Esterházy |
Harmonia cælestis | Celestial Harmonies | |||
 Alois Hotschnig |
Im Sitzen läuft es sich besser davon | ||||
 Viktor Malakhov |
Уязвимость любви | ||||
| Frédéric Martinez |
Claude Monet, une vie au fil de l’eau | ||||
 Klaus Merz |
Der Argentinier | ||||
 Pavel Sanaev |
Похороните меня за плинтусом | ||||
| 2011 | György Dragomán |
A fehér király | The White King | Winner | [7] |
 Miguel Syjuco |
Ilustrado | Finalists | |||
 Sjón |
Skugga-Baldur | The Blue Fox | |||
 Liu Xiaobo |
— | No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems | Nominee | ||
 Peter Fröberg Idling |
Pol Pots leende | Pol Pot’s Smile | |||
| Mark Kharitonov |
Проект Одиночество | ||||
 Antoni Libera |
Godot i jego cień | ||||
| 2012 |  Julia Lovell |
The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China | Winner | [8] | |
| Martin Pollack |
Kaiser von Amerika: Die große Flucht aus Galizien | Finalists | |||
| Timothy Snyder |
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin | ||||
| Philippe Cassard |
Franz Schubert | Nominee | |||
| Patrick Deville |
Kampuchéa | ||||
 Mark Gevisser |
Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred | ||||
| Donald Ray Pollock |
The Devil All the Time | ||||
| Maria Rybakova |
Острый нож для мягкого сердца | Couteau tranchant pour un cœur tendre | |||
| Bruno Smolarz |
Hokusaï aux doigts d’encre | ||||
| 2013 |  Mahmoud Dowlatabadi |
زوال کلنل | The Colonel | Winner | [9][10] |
| Serge Gruzinski |
L’aigle et le Dragon: Démesure européenne et mondialisation au XVIe siècle | Finalists | [11] | ||
| Steve Sem-Sandberg |
De fattiga i Łódź | The Emperor of Lies | |||
| Robert Macfarlane |
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot | Second selection | |||
 Uday Prakash |
— | The Walls of Delhi | |||
| Janusz Głowacki |
Good night, Dżerzi | First selection | |||
| Chan Koonchung |
盛世：中國，2013年 | The Fat Years | |||
| Charu Nivedita |
ஸீரோ டிகிரி | Zero Degree | |||
| Tiphaine Samoyault |
Bête de cirque | ||||
 Enrique Vila-Matas |
Chet Baker piensa en su arte | ||||
| Chris Ware |
Building Stories | ||||
| 2014 | Serhiy Zhadan |
Ворошиловград | Voroshylovhrad | Winner | [12][13] |
| Mark Gevisser |
Dispatcher: Lost and Found in Johannesburg | Finalists | |||
| Marci Shore |
The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe | ||||
| Rana Mitter |
China’s War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival | Second selection | |||
| Jaume Cabré |
Confiteor | Confessions | |||
 Maxime Raymond Bock |
Atavismes | Atavisms | First selection | ||
| Camille de Toledo |
Oublier, trahir puis disparaître | ||||
| Paul Harding |
Enon | ||||
| Fanny Howe |
Second Childhood | ||||
| Wojciech Nowicki |
Salki | ||||
 Dragan Velikić |
Bonavia | ||||
  Najem Wali |
ملائكة الجنوب | Engel des Südens | |||
| 2015 | Mark Thompson |
Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kiš | Winner | [14] | |
| Navid Kermani |
Zwischen Koran und Kafka: West-östliche Erkundungen | Between Quran and Kafka: West-Eastern Inquiries | Finalists | ||
| Najem Wali |
بغداد مالبورو، من أجل برادلي مانينك | Bagdad Marlboro: Ein Roman für Bradley Manning | |||
| Jean-Noël Orengo |
La Fleur du Capital | Second selection | |||
 Ari Shavit |
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel | ||||
| Philipp Ther |
Die neue Ordnung auf dem alten Kontinent: Eine Geschichte des neoliberalen Europa | Europe since 1989: A History | First selection | ||
 Lucian Dan Teodorovici |
Matei Brunul | L’histoire de Bruno Matei | |||
| Frédéric Badré |
La grande santé | ||||
| Valentin Retz |
Noir parfait | ||||
| Hermione Lee |
Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life | ||||
| Lisa Jarnot |
Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus: A Biography | ||||
| Gansel Mireille |
Traduire comme transhumer | Translation as Transhumance | |||
| 2016 |  Georgi Gospodinov |
Физика на тъгата | Physics of Sorrow | Winner | [15][16] |
| Dževad Karahasan |
Što pepeo priča | The Solace of the Night Sky | Finalists | ||
| Aatish Taseer |
The Way Things Were | ||||
| Julian Barnes |
Levels of Life | Second selection | |||
| Navid Kermani |
Ungläubiges Staunen: Über das Christentum | Wonder Beyond Belief: On Christianity | |||
| Ada Limón |
Bright Dead Things | First selection | |||
 Alberto Mangel |
Curiosity | ||||
| Iván Sándor |
Az éjszaka mélyén, 1914 | Husar in der Hölle, 1914 | |||
 Andrea Bajani |
La vita non è in ordine alfabetico | ||||
| Fariba Hachtroudi |
Le colonel et l’appât 455 | The Man Who Snapped His Fingers | |||
| Stefan Banz |
Louis Michel Eilshemius: Peer of Poet-Painters | ||||
| Patrick McGuinness |
Poetry and Radical Politics in fin de siècle France: From Anarchism to Action française | ||||
| Víctor del Árbol |
Un millón de gotas | A Million Drops | |||
| Ulrike Guérot |
Warum Europa eine Republik werden muss! Eine politische Utopie | Why Europe Should Become a Republic! A Political Utopia | |||
| 2017 | Thierry Wolton |
Une histoire mondiale du communisme | Winner | [17] | |
| Lawrence Liang et al. |
Invisible Libraries | Finalists | |||
| Liao Yiwu |
輪迴的螞蟻 | Die Wiedergeburt der Ameisen | |||
| Paul Kalanithi |
When Breath Becomes Air | Second selection | |||
| Wioletta Greg |
Guguły | Swallowing Mercury | |||
| Yuriy Vynnychuk |
Танґо смерті | Tango of Death | First selection | ||
| Eugénie Paultre |
L’état actuel des choses | ||||
 Alvar González-Palacios |
Solo ombre: Silhouettes storiche, letterarie e mondane | ||||
| Peter Frankopan |
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World | ||||
| 2018 | Olga Tokarczuk |
Księgi Jakubowe | The Books of Jacob | Winner | [18] |
| Yuval Noah Harari |
ההיסטוריה של המחר | Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow | Finalists | ||
| Jean Rolin |
Le traquet kurde | ||||
| Norman Ohler |
Der totale Rausch: Drogen im Dritten Reich | Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich | Second selection | ||
| Patrick McGuinness |
Other People’s Countries: A Journey into Memory | ||||
| Maggie Nelson |
The Argonauts | First selection | |||
| Virginie Despentes |
Vernon Subutex | ||||
| George Szirtes |
Bad Machine | ||||
| Preti Taneja |
We That Are Young | ||||
| 2019 | Zeruya Shalev |
כאב | Pain | Winner | [19] |
| Francesca Melandri |
Sangue giusto | Finalists | |||
 Patrik Ouředník |
La fin du monde n’aurait pas eu lieu | The End of the World Might Not Have Taken Place | |||
| Antonio Iturbe |
La bibliotecaria de Auschwitz | The Librarian of Auschwitz | Second selection | ||
| Morgan Sportès |
Le ciel ne parle pas | First selection | |||
  Long Litt Woon |
Stien tilbake til livet: Om sopp og sorg | The Way Through the Woods: Of Mushrooms and Mourning | |||
| 2020 |  Mia Couto with David Brookshaw (trans.) |
As Areias do Imperador | Sands of the Emperor | Winner | [20][21] |
| Fran Ross |
Oreo | Finalists | |||
| Philippe Sands |
East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity | ||||
| Érik Orsenna |
Briser en nous la mer gelée | Second selection | |||
 Bernard Quiriny |
Vies conjugales | ||||
| Roland Schimmelpfennig |
An einem klaren, eiskalten Januarmorgen zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts | One Clear, Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century | First selection | ||
| Vigdis Hjorth |
Arv og miljø | Will and Testament | |||
| Wojciech Nowicki |
Cieśniny | ||||
| Nastassja Martin |
Croire aux fauves | In the Eye of the Wild | |||
| Yurii Andrukhovych |
Коханці юстиції | Die Lieblinge der Justiz | |||
 António Damásio |
The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures | ||||
| Catherine Meurisse |
La Légèreté | Lightness | |||
| Sergei Lebedev |
Предел забвения | Oblivion | |||
| Sorj Chalandon |
Le jour d’avant | ||||
 Viet Thanh Nguyen |
The Sympathizer | ||||
| Ruth Zylberman |
209 rue Saint-Maur, Paris Xe: Autobiographie d’un immeuble | The Department of Missing Persons | |||
| 2021 | Memorial International (Alena Kozlova, Nikolai Mikhailov, Irina Ostrovskaya, and Irina Scherbakova) with Georgia Thomson (trans.) |
Знак не сотрется: Судьбы остарбайтеров в письмах, воспоминаниях и устных рассказах | OST: Letters, Memoirs and Stories from Ostarbeiter in Nazi Germany | Winner | [22] |
| Frank Huyler |
White Hot Light: Twenty-five Years in Emergency Medicine | Finalists | |||
 Eduardo Halfon with Lisa Dillman and Daniel Hahn (trans.) |
Duelo | Mourning | |||
| Sophy Roberts |
The Lost Pianos of Siberia | Second selection | |||
| Sergei Lebedev with Antonina W. Bouis (trans.) |
Дебютант | Untraceable | |||
| Daniel Mendelsohn |
Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate | First selection | |||
| Mário Cláudio |
Tríptico da Salvação | ||||
| Ksenia Buksha |
Открывается внутрь | ||||
| Maria Stepanova |
Памяти памяти | In Memory of Memory | |||
| Judith Schalansky |
Verzeichnis einiger Verluste | An Inventory of Losses | |||
| Édouard Louis |
Qui a tué mon père | Who Killed My Father | |||
| Mathieu Sapin |
Gérard: Cinq années dans les pattes de Depardieu | Gérard: Five Years with Depardieu | |||
| Lisa Mandel |
Une année exemplaire | ||||
| Patrice Jean |
L’homme surnuméraire | ||||
| Claude Hunzinger |
Les grands cerfs | ||||
 Carmen Boullosa |
El libro de Ana | The Book of Anna | |||
| 2022 |  Taina Tervonen |
Les fossoyeuses | Winner | [23] | |
 Eliane Brum with Diane Grosklaus Whitty (trans.) |
A vida que ninguém vê | The Collector of Leftover Souls: Dispatches from Brazil | Finalists | ||
 Untold Narratives |
— | My Pen is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women | |||
| Perrine Lamy-Quique |
Dans leur nuit | Second selection | |||
| Laurent Binet |
Civilizations | ||||
 Nathacha Appanah |
Le ciel par-dessus le toit | The Sky Above the Roof | First selection | ||
| M. John Harrison |
The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again | ||||
| Georgi Gospodinov |
Времеубежище | Time Shelter | |||
| Cat Jarman |
River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads | ||||
| Tanguy Viel |
La fille qu’on appelle | The Girl You Call | |||
| Stéphanie Coste |
Le passeur | ||||
| 2023 |  Karina Sainz Borgo |
El Tercer País | Winner | [24] | |
| Suzanne Simard |
Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest | Finalists | |||
 Hamid Ismailov with Donald Rayfield (trans.) |
Manaschi | ||||
| Emanuele Trevi |
Due vite | Second selection | |||
| Stefan Hertmans with David McKay (trans.) |
De opgang | The Ascent | |||
| Hélène Frappat |
Trois femmes disparaissent | First selection | |||
| Michel Houellebecq |
Anéantir | Annihilation | |||
| Eva Baltasar |
Boulder | ||||
| Anna Badkhen |
Bright Unbearable Reality | ||||
| Agustín Fernández Mallo |
El libro de todos los amores | The Book of All Loves | |||
| Sara Stridsberg |
Kärlekens Antarktis | The Antarctica of Love | |||
| Aslak Nore |
Havets kirkegård | The Sea Cemetery | |||
 Sally Hayden |
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route | ||||
| Sigrid Nunez |
What Are You Going Through? | ||||
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