ThePrix de Flore is a Frenchliterary prize founded in 1994 byFrédéric Beigbeder. The aim of the prize is to reward youthful authors and it is judged by a panel of journalists. It is awarded yearly in November,[1] at theCafé de Flore in Paris. The prize only applies toFrench-language literature, even though the author does not have to be French.Bruce Benderson was the first non-French author to receive the prize, in 2004, for the novelAutobiographie érotique (released in English asThe Romanian: Story of an Obsession).The laureate of the Prix de Flore wins about 6,000 Euros and is entitled to drink a glass ofPouilly-Fumé, a white wine from theLoire region of France, at theCafé de Flore every day for a year. The laureate's name is engraved on the glass.
