Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française

Grand prix de l'Académie

Description

História e Fundação

O Grand Prix de Littérature da Académie française, fundado em 1912, destaca-se como um dos mais antigos e respeitados galardões literários em França. A sua atribuição pela Académie française, instituição com uma rica história na salvaguarda e promoção da língua francesa, confere-lhe um peso institucional inegável.

Características e Abrangência

Este prémio distingue-se pela sua abrangência, não se limitando a um género literário específico. Pode ser concedido a romances, ensaios, biografias, obras históricas ou poesia, desde que demonstrem um mérito literário excecional e um domínio notável da língua francesa.

A sua característica distintiva reside na recompensa de uma obra completa, em detrimento de um livro publicado num ano específico. Embora, na prática, muitas vezes recaia sobre uma obra recente, o seu objetivo primordial é celebrar a excelência da escrita e o impacto cultural de um autor ao longo da sua carreira, ou uma obra que se destaque de forma particular.

Critérios de Seleção

Os critérios de seleção são rigorosos, focando-se na qualidade estilística, profundidade temática, originalidade e relevância da obra. A decisão final é tomada pelos membros da Académie française, em deliberações realizadas em sessões secretas.

Laureados Ilustres

Ao longo da sua existência, o prémio distinguiu alguns dos mais proeminentes escritores franceses, como André Gide, François Mauriac, Julien Green, Marguerite Yourcenar e Patrick Modiano. Muitos destes laureados viriam a receber outros reconhecimentos de renome internacional, incluindo o Prémio Nobel da Literatura.

Impacto e Relevância

A relevância deste prémio transcende o prestígio conferido ao autor e à obra. A sua capacidade de destacar e promover a literatura francesa junto de um público mais vasto, tanto em França como no estrangeiro, é um dos seus maiores legados.

O valor monetário do prémio, embora secundário face ao reconhecimento, é simbólico e serve para reforçar a distinção atribuída. Uma curiosidade é a possibilidade de o prémio ser dividido entre dois autores, caso a Academia considere que duas obras merecem igualmente ser distinguidas.

A longevidade do Grand Prix de Littérature e a solidez da instituição que o confere asseguram a sua contínua importância no panorama literário francófono, funcionando como um selo de qualidade e um indicador de obras que resistem ao teste do tempo.

Winners

2025
Scottish Proverb

Scottish Proverb --

The Scots people (Scots Gaelic: Albannach) are a nation and an ethnic group indigenous to Scotland

2023
Scott Westerfeld

Scott Westerfeld --

2021
Scott Russell Sanders

Scott Russell Sanders --

Scott Russell Sanders (born 1945 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American novelist and essayist

2019
Scott Ringenbach

Scott Ringenbach --

2017
Raquel Welch

Raquel Welch --

Raquel Welch is an American actress and sex symbol.

2015
Scott Reed

Scott Reed --

Scott Reed is an American illustrator, comic book artist and author from Reedsville, Ohio.

2013
Scott Hudson

Scott Hudson --

Scott Hudson is an XML consultant and voting member of the DocBook and DITA Technical Committees at OASIS (organization).

2011
Scott Carneghi

Scott Carneghi --

Drummer for the hard rock power trio Buffalocomotive.

2009
Scott Campbell

Scott Campbell --

Scott Campbell, known professionally as Scott C.,

2007
Scott Caan

Scott Caan --

2005
Scott Bairstow

Scott Bairstow --

Scott Hamilton Bairstow (born April 23, 1970) was born in Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada to Douglas and Diane Bairstow, professional classical musicians. He is an actor best known for his roles as "Newt Call" on the Lonesome Dove series in Canada and as "Ned Grayson" on the American television drama series, Party of Five

2003
Scott Alexander

Scott Alexander --

2001
Ennius

Ennius --

Quintus Ennius (239 - c. 169 BC) was a writer during the period of the Roman Republic, and is often considered the father of Roman poetry. He was of Greek descent. Although only fragments of his works survive, his influence in Latin literature was significant

1999
Scott Adams

Scott Adams --

Scott Raymond Adams (born June 8, 1957) is the creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the author of several business commentaries, social satires and experimental philosophy books

1997
Scipione Alberti

Scipione Alberti --

1995
Schubert

Schubert --

1993
Schopenhauer

Schopenhauer --

1991
Schiller

Schiller --

1989
Scarlett White

Scarlett White --

singer/ songwriter

1987
Scarlett O'Hara

Scarlett O'Hara --

Scarlett O'Hara (full name Katie Scarlett O'Hara Hamilton Kennedy Butler) is the protagonist in Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind and in the later film of the same name. She also is the main character in the 1970 musical Scarlett and the 1991 book Scarlett, a sequel to Gone with the Wind that was written by Alexandra Ripley and adapted for a television mini-series in 1994. During early drafts of the original novel, Mitchell referred to her heroine as "Pansy", and did not decide on the name "Scarlett" until just before the novel went to print

1985
Scarface

Scarface --

United States gangster who terrorized Chicago during prohibition until arrested for tax evasion (1899-1947)

1983
Scandinavian Proverb

Scandinavian Proverb --

1981
Sbastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort

Sbastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort --

1979
Saying Folk

Saying Folk --

1978
Sayeed(life)

Sayeed(life) --

1977
James Agate

James Agate --

1976
SAYEED

SAYEED --

1975
Saville

Saville --

1974
Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower

Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower --

1973
Saul Steinberg

Saul Steinberg --

1972
Saul David Alinsky

Saul David Alinsky --

Saul David Alinsky (January 30, 1909, Chicago, Illinois - June 12, 1972, Carmel, California) was an American community organizer and writer. He is generally considered to be the founder of modern community organizing in America, the political practice of organizing communities to act in common self-interest. Alinsky is sometimes said to have coined the term "Think globally, act locally

1971
C. V. R. Thompson

C. V. R. Thompson --

1970
Jack Cleary

Jack Cleary --

1969
Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow US

United States author (born in Canada) whose novels influenced American literature after World War II (1915-2005)

1968
Iggy Pop

Iggy Pop --

James Newell Osterberg, Jr. (born April 21, 1947), better known by his stage name Iggy Pop, is an American rock singer, songwriter, and occasional actor. Although he has had only limited mainstream success, Iggy Pop is considered an innovator of punk rock, garage rock, and other related styles. He is sometimes referred to by the nicknames "the Godfather of Punk" and "the Rock Iguana", and is widely acknowledged as one of the most dynamic stage performers of all time. Pop began calling himself Iggy after his first band in high school, The Iguanas

1967
Saul Bass

Saul Bass --

Saul Bass (May 8, 1920 – April 25, 1996) was an American graphic designer and Oscar winning filmmaker, best known for his design of motion picture title sequences, film posters, and corporate logos.

1966
Saudi Proverb

Saudi Proverb --

1965
Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky --

composer who was born in Russia but lived in the United States after 1939 (1882-1971)

1964
Saturday Review

Saturday Review --

1963
Satchel Paige

Satchel Paige --

United States baseball player; a black pitcher noted for his longevity (1906-1982)

1962
Saskya Pandita

Saskya Pandita --

1961
Edward Dowden

Edward Dowden --

Edward Dowden, was an Irish critic and poet.

1960
Sarah Vowell

Sarah Vowell --

1959
Sarah Sheikh

Sarah Sheikh --

1958
Sarah Orne Jewett

Sarah Orne Jewett --

Sarah Orne Jewett (September 3, 1849 - June 24, 1909) was an American novelist and short story writer, best known for her local color works set in or near South Berwick, Maine, on the border of New Hampshire, which in her day was a declining New England seaport

1956
Sarah N. Cleghorn

Sarah N. Cleghorn --

1955
Sarah McLachlan

Sarah McLachlan --

Sarah Ann McLachlan, OC, OBC (born January 28, 1968) is a Grammy-winning Canadian musician, singer and songwriter

1954
Sarah Knowles Bolton

Sarah Knowles Bolton --

Sarah Knowles Bolton, (September 15, 1841-February 21, 1916) was an American writer

1953
Sarah Jackson

Sarah Jackson --

Sarah Jackson (July 16, 1803 - August 23, 1887) was the daughter-in-law of US President Andrew Jackson. She served as White House hostess and unofficial First Lady of the United States from November 26, 1834 to March 4, 1837

1952
James 210 Bible

James 210 Bible --

1950
Sarah Brady

Sarah Brady --

Sarah Brady (born Sarah Jane Kemp on February 6, 1942) is the wife of former White House Press Secretary James Brady. She was born to Lemongelo Stanley Kemp, a high school teacher and later FBI agent, and Frances Stufflebean Kemp, a former teacher and homemaker. She has one younger brother, Bill

1948
Houssaye

Houssaye --

1945
Isaiah 5812 Bible

Isaiah 5812 Bible --

1942
Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt --

French actress (1844-1923)

1935
Hedrick Smith

Hedrick Smith --

Hedrick Smith is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former reporter and editor for The New York Times, an Emmy Award-winning producer/correspondent for the PBS show Frontline, and author of several books.

1934
Ilya Ehrenburg

Ilya Ehrenburg RU

Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg was a Soviet writer, journalist, translator, and cultural figure.

1931
Sarah Ban Breathnach

Sarah Ban Breathnach --

1929
Sarah

Sarah --

Student

1928
Sara Teasdale

Sara Teasdale --

Sara Teasdale (August 8, 1884 - January 29, 1933), was an American lyrical poet

1927
Sanskrit Proverb

Sanskrit Proverb --

Sanskrit is a historical Indo-Aryan language and the primary liturgical language of Hinduism, Jainism and Mahāyāna Buddhism. Today, it is listed as one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of the state of Uttarakhand. In western classical linguistics, Sanskrit occupies a pre-eminent position along with Greek and Latin in Indo-European studies.

1924
Harry Leon Wilson

Harry Leon Wilson --

American novelist (1867 -1939)

1922
Sankara

Sankara --

Adi Shankara (788 CE - 820 CE) was an Indian philosopher who consolidated the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta, a sub-school of Vedanta

1921
Heinrich Gotthard von Treitschke

Heinrich Gotthard von Treitschke --

1920
Sanjay Bhandari

Sanjay Bhandari --

Solutions Finder

1919
Sandy

Sandy --

Sandy is a member of the musical group, Dum Dum Girls.

1919
Sandy Farquhar

Sandy Farquhar --

1918
Sandra Swinney

Sandra Swinney --

1917
Hob Broun

Hob Broun --

1916
Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros --

Sandra Cisneros (born 20 December 1954) is a Chicana writer best known for her acclaimed first novel The House on Mango Street (1984) and her subsequent short story collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991)

1915
Sandra Carey

Sandra Carey --

1913
Jean Baptiste Rousseau

Jean Baptiste Rousseau --

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (6 April 1671 - 17 March 1741), was a French poet

1912
Sandra

Sandra --