Writer Pascal Quignard will receive the 2023 Formentor de las Letras award As the jury explained, the French writer for “the mastery in which literary thought saved the genealogy” renewed the expressive power of the language“.
Minutes of the jury also state that he was awarded the prize “for the composition of his great thesis on the literary enigmas of the human soul, for his mastery of avoiding the textual mundane and solving the most unexpected dimensions of writing.” “.
The jury, convened in Canfranc (Huesca), consisted of Ramón Andrés, Anna Caballé, Juan Luis Cebrián, Víctor Gómez Pin and its president, Basilio Baltasar. He is a part of Pascal Quignard’s “born outside the commandments of time”. flexible, shiny and penetrating tongue“and that a dazzling wisdom in his countless books renews the creative energy of the first springs.
As reported by the Formentor Foundation, “It is the Greco-Latin, medieval and baroque heritage, Eastern thought, and Western philosophy that incite amazement at the monumental invention of universal literature.” Also, the characters of Pascal Quignard difficult and complex, intense and volatile and the finest psychological depths of the human personality, and that the author is “the architect of stylistic renewal and heir to the great European intellectual tradition, which unites genres, disciplines, competences and wide-ranging knowledge”.
“Because of all this, because of the unusual elaboration metaphysical, anthropological, historical, artistic and philological legaciesThe jury awarded the 2023 Formentor Award for Letters to Pascal Quignard for the composition of his great work on the literary enigmas of the human soul.”
Born in Verneuil-sur-Avre in 1948 to a family of musicians and classical literary experts, Quignard studied philosophy in Nanterre and worked for the Gallimard publishing house, holding various positions until he devoted himself solely to literature; is considered today one of the most important french writers.
he is the author more than seventy worksAmong them are “The Wurtemberg Hall” (1986), “All the Mornings of the World” (1991), “A Terrace in Rome” (2000, Académie française Novels Grand Prize), “Villa Amalia” (2006). , Jean Giono Grand Prize), ‘Wandering Shadows’ (2002, Goncourt Prize), ‘Mysterious Solidarity’ (2011), ‘Tears’ (2016) and ‘Love the Sea’ (2022). He has also written a number of articles mixing fiction and reflection, such as the volumes ‘Little Treatises’ and ‘The Last Kingdom’.
In 2019 he was awarded the Marguerite Yourcenar award for his work and worldwide contribution. The spread of art and literature in France and all over the world.
The Formentor Prize, whose delivery ceremony will be held in Huesca at the end of next September, is an homage to the quality and integrity of works that reinforce the prestige and cultural impact of literature, and was received by Samuel Beckett, among others. Jorge Luis Borges, Saul Bellow, Jorge Semprún and Witold Gombrowicz, Carlos Fuentes, Juan Goytisolo, Javier Marías, Enrique Vila-Matas and Ricardo Piglia.