Prix mondial Cino Del Duca

The Prix mondial Cino Del Duca (Cino Del Duca World Prize) is an international literary award from France. With an award amount of €200,000, it is among the richest literary prizes.^[1]

Prix mondial Cino Del Duca (Cino Del Duca World Prize)
Date	Established in 1969
Country	France
Presented by	Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation (under the auspices of the Institut de France)
Reward(s)	200,000 € prize
First award	1969
Website	https://www.fondation-del-duca.fr/prix-mondial

Origins and operations

It was established in 1969 in France by French businesswoman Simone Del Duca (1912–2004) to continue the work of her Italian-born French husband, publishing magnate Cino Del Duca (1899–1967).

The award recognizes an author 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 the Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation for a variety of philanthropic purposes and it assumed responsibility for the award. Following her death in 2004, the foundation was placed under the auspices of the Institut de France.

Honorees

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