Prix mondial Cino Del Duca

The Prix mondial Cino Del Duca (Cino Del Duca World Prize) is a major international literary award established in 1969 in France by Simone Del Duca (1912-2004) to continue the work of her late husband, publishing magnate Cino Del Duca (1899-1967). Designed to recognize and reward an author whose work constitutes, in a scientific or literary form, a message of modern humanism, the "Prix mondial Cino Del Duca" currently carries a 250,000 € prize.

In 1975, Madame Del Luca established the Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation for a variety of philanthropic purposes and it assumed responsibility for the "Prix mondial". Following her death in 2004, the Foundation was placed under the auspices of the Institut de France.

Honorees:

*1969 : Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, 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 : Yachar Kemal, Turkish writer
*1983 : Jacques Ruffié, French writer, 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, 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, essayist
*1994 : Yves Pouliquen, French medical researcher
*1995 : Yves Bonnefoy, French poet and essayist.
*1996 : Alain F. Carpentier, French heart surgeon
*1997 : Vaclav Havel, Czech writer, 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 : Simon Leys, Belgian writer
*2005 : Jean Clair, French essayist and art historian

References

* [http://www.fondations.org/public/article.php3?id_article=1138 Fondation Del Duca information]