Awards and Recognitions

FIL Literary Prize bestowed by the Civil Association Prize for Literature in Romance Languages

2016

Norman Manea

(Rumania, 1936)

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Jury Statement

Jurors

Alberto Manguel

Argentine-born Canadian writer. He is a member of the Canadian writer’s union, PEN and the Guggenheim Foundation, Argentina’s Book Chamber and Great Britain’s Royal Society of Literature. He has been named as a Commander of France’s Order of Arts and Letters. He has also received numerous awards including the Medicis Essay Award (France) for A History of Reading; the McKitterick Prize (England) for his novel News From a Foreign Country Came and the Grinzane Cavour Award (Italy) for A Reading Diary. He has also been granted the Germán Sánchez Ruipérez Foundation’s Prize (Spain) and the Roger Caillois Award (France) for his body of works, which have been translated into over thirty languages.

João Cezar de Castro Rocha

Comparative Literature professor at the University of Río de Janeiro. He studied in Brazil, the United States and Germany. He has written nine books, the latest of which are Machado de Assis: Toward a Poetics of Emulation (2013, published in English by the Michigan State University Press and which earned him the Academia Brasileira de Letras Award); ¿Culturas Shakespearianas? Teoría Mimética y América Latina (2014); Cultures latino-américaines et poétique de l’émulation. Littérature des faubourgs du monde? (2015). He is the editor of over twenty books. He has received numerous awards and distinctions.

Ottmar Ette

Romanist and expert in comparative literature. He is a member of the Modern Language Association of America, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the European Academy. He has received numerous distinctions and awards including his appointment as Chevalier in the French Ordre des Palmes Académiques (2012), the National Higher Studies Research Award given by the UNAM (2014), the Hugo-Friedrich/Erich Köhler Prize (2001), the Young Scholars Award for Romance Literature from the University of Freiburg for his book about José Martí (1991), and the Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz Award given by the Ministry of Culture and the German Research Association for his book Alexander von Humboldt's Reise in die Äquinoktial-Gegenden des Neuen Kontinents.

Mercedes Monmany

Spanish literary critic. She has a bachelor’s degree in communication sciences from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and specializes in contemporary European literature. She is a member of the editorial boards for the magazines La Alegría de los Naufragios, Sibila and Revista de Libros. She writes in literary supplements for newspapers such as the ABC and El País and directs the literary essay collection called “La Rama Dorada.” She has translated authors including Leonardo Sciascia, Attilio Bertolucci, Francis Ponge, Valerio Magrelli and Philippe Jaccottet. Some of her publications include volumes by Álvaro Mutis, Margaret Atwood, Miklós Bánffy, Wislawa Szymborska, Izraíl Métter and Gesualdo Bufalino, as well as publications and prologues in Una infancia de escritor, Nueva escritura francesa, Vidas de mujer (1998), De lo maravilloso y lo real (2014), and a book of literary essays called Don Quijote en los Cárpatos (1997). Her most recent work is the book Por las fronteras de Europa (2015).

Jerónimo Pizarro

Colombian Editor. He is a literature professor at the Universidad de los Andes and is the department chair for Portuguese studies at Instituto Camões. He holds doctorates in Hispanic literature and Portuguese linguistics from the University of Harvard and the University of Lisbon. He is a researcher specializing in the work of Fernando Pessoa. He has worked as an editor for seven volumes of Pessoa’s work, including the first critical edition of The Book of Disquiet. He collaborated in the publication of several books including La biblioteca particular by Fernando Pessoa (2010), Portuguese Modernisms in Literature and the Visual Arts (2010) and a book of essays, El arca de Pessoa (2007). He worked on a special edition of the Portuguese Studies magazine in 2008 and in 2007 coordinated two new series published by Ática (Fernando Pessoa/Works; Fernando Pessoa/Essays).He was awarded the 2013 Eduardo Lourenço Prize for his work in advocating Portuguese literature in Colombia.

Louis Chevaillier

French editor. He holds a Master of Modern Literature graduate from HEC Paris (école des Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Paris) and was in charge of Folio’s contemporary literature collection from 2008 to 2014 and is currently the editorial director for Phébus. He writes for Le 1 magazine. Some of his most representative publishing work can be found in L’oeil de la NFR: cent libres pour un siècle (1999), in addition to his editing work and translations Italo Calvino such as Le baron perché, Le Vicomte pour fendu and Le chevalier inexistant. As a poet, his most well-known work is Icare en transe (2010).

Philliphe Daros

French academic. Professor of literature and Director of Comparative Studies and of the Research Centerat Paris II Sorbonne Nouvelle. He wrote for the international magazine called AILC Investigación Literaria and is a member of the International Comparative Literature Association. He has researched literary anthropology and contemporary Italian literature and co-directed the translation the entire body of work by Italo Calvino. He also co-directed the translation of the volumes Instaurer la memoir in Quaderni di storia de lla critica e delle poetiche and Herméneutique littéraire, in which he published “Peut-onraconter la fin de l’Histoire” and “Modes de présentation de l’image.” He wrote Fictions de reconnaissances: essai sur l’œuvre de Daniele Del Giudiceand has been invited to give conferences on these works in Venice and Bologne, in Italy, and in Montreal, Canada.