On the initiative of The Mémoire Albert Cohen Foundation, the "Mémoire Albert Cohen Prize" is created in 2013.

 

The jury is chaired by Paule Constant.

The jury members are Yasmine Char, Metin Arditi, Eric Fottorino, René Guitton, Amin Maalouf, Christophe Ono-Dit-Biot and Jean-Christophe Rufin.

 

This prize rewards a novel written in French published during the year 2013, questioning the figure of the foreigner, like the literary work and the humanist heritage of Albert Cohen, as an official international law that promoted the rights of refugees and stateless persons in the immediate post-war period.

 

For its first edition, the award ceremony 2013, was held in Paris, in the salons of the Constitutional Council, under the aegis of its president, Jean-Louis Debré.

 

Selection 

THE BLUE BEES of Laura ALCOBA (Gallimard)

THE FOURTH WALL of Sorj CHALANDON (Grasset)

NIGHT WAITING by Jacques CHANCEL (Flammarion)

A COUNTRY THAT HAD NO PORT OF Isabelle CONDOU (Plon)

THE LAST SESSION of Chahdortt DJAVANN (Fayard)

KINDERZIMMER of Valentine GOBY (Actes Sud)

THE LAST LORD OF MARSAD of Charif MAJDALANI (Threshold)

THE SEASON OF THE SHADOW of Léonora MIANO (Grasset)

THE INVENTION OF OUR LIVES by Karine TUIL (Grasset)

ARDEN by Frédéric VERGER (Gallimard)

 

The winner of the first edition of the Mémoire Albert Cohen Prize is Frédéric Verger for his novel: Arden (Gallimard 2013).

 

The Mémoire Albert Cohen Prize was organized with the support of the Jan Michalski Foundation for Writing and Literature, created on the initiative of Vera Michalski-Hoffmann in memory of her husband Jan, with the aim of keeping the action alive. by Jan Michalski in favor of literary creation.