Award
ThePrix mondial Cino Del Duca (Cino Del Duca World Prize ) is an internationalliterary award fromFrance . With an award amount of€ 200,000, it is among therichest literary prizes .[ 1]
Origins and operations [ edit ] It was established in 1969 inFrance by French businesswomanSimone Del Duca (1912–2004) to continue the work of her Italian-born French husband, publishing magnateCino Del Duca (1899–1967).
The award recognizes anauthor whose work constitutes, in a scientific or literary form, a message of modern humanism. The award's prize has been valued as high as 300,000€ over the years; in 2016 it was 200,000.[ 2] [ 3]
In 1975, Madame Del Luca established theSimone and Cino Del Duca Foundation for a variety ofphilanthropic purposes and it assumed responsibility for the award. Following her death in 2004, the foundation was placed under the auspices of theInstitut de France .
Jorge Luis Borges Ismail Kadare Mario Vargas Llosa Joyce Carol Oates 1969 :Konrad Lorenz , Austrian zoologist and ornithologist 1970 :Jean Anouilh , French dramatist 1971 :Ignazio Silone , Italian author 1972 :Victor Weisskopf , Austrian-American physicist 1973 :Jean Guéhenno , French writer 1974 :Andrei Sakharov , Soviet nuclear physicist 1975 :Alejo Carpentier , Cuban writer 1976 :Lewis Mumford , American historian 1977 :Germaine Tillion , French anthropologist 1978 :Léopold Sédar Senghor , Senegalese poet and statesman 1979 :Jean Hamburger , French surgeon and essayist 1980 :Jorge Luis Borges , Argentine writer 1981 :Ernst Jünger , German author 1982 :Yaşar Kemal , Turkish writer 1983 :Jacques Ruffié , French writer and educator 1984 :Georges Dumézil , French comparative philologist 1985 :William Styron , American novelist 1986 :Thierry Maulnier , French writer 1987 :Denis Burkitt , British surgeon 1988 :Henri Gouhier , French philosopher and historian 1989 :Carlos Chagas Filho , Brazilian physician and biologist 1990 :Jorge Amado , Brazilian novelist 1991 :Michel Jouvet , French neurological researcher 1992 :Ismail Kadare , Albanian writer 1993 :Robert Mallet , French poet and essayist 1994 :Yves Pouliquen , French medical researcher 1995 :Yves Bonnefoy , French poet and essayist 1996 :Alain F. Carpentier , French heart surgeon 1997 :Václav Havel , Czech writer and statesman 1998 :Zhen-yi Wang , Chinese pathophysiologist 1999 :Henri Amouroux , French historian 2000 :Jean Leclant , French Egyptologist 2001 :Yvon Gattaz , French businessman 2002 :François Nourissier , French writer 2003 :Nicole Le Douarin , French embryologist 2004 : (no prize awarded) 2005 :Simon Leys , Belgian writer 2006 :Jean Clair , French essayist and art historian 2007 :Mona Ozouf , French historian and writer 2008 :Mario Vargas Llosa , Peruvian and Spanish writer 2009 :Milan Kundera , French and Czech writer 2010 :Patrick Modiano , French writer 2011 : (no prize awarded) 2012 :Trinh Xuan Thuan , Vietnamese astronomer and writer 2013 :Robert Darnton , American cultural historian 2014 :Andreï Makine , French writer 2015 :Thomas W. Gaehtgens , German historian 2016 :Sylvie Germain , French writer 2017 :Benedetta Craveri , Italian writer 2018 :Philippe Jaccottet , Swiss writer 2019 :Kamel Daoud , Algerian writer 2020 :Joyce Carol Oates , American writer 2021 :Maryse Condé , Guadeloupean-French writer 2022 :Haruki Murakami , Japanese writer 2023 :Dương Thu Hương , Vietnamese writer 2024 :Yasmina Reza , French playwright 2025 :Boualem Sansal , Algerian-French author Awards by nationality [ edit ] In May 2025, the distribution of prizes by nationality is:
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