Prix Roger Caillois

The prix Roger Caillois is an annual literary prize established in 1991 in partnership with the PEN Club in France and the as well as the Society of readers and friends of Roger Caillois, awarded to both a Latin American and a French author. Since 2007, the prix Roger Caillois for essay comes in addition to these two prizes.

The prize is awarded in December.

Latin American authors

 * 1991: José Donoso
 * 1993: Álvaro Mutis
 * 1995: Adolfo Bioy Casares
 * 1997: Homero Aridjis
 * 1999: Haroldo de Campos
 * 2001: Blanca Varela
 * 2002: Mario Vargas Llosa
 * 2003: Carlos Fuentes
 * 2004: Alberto Manguel
 * 2006: Sergio Pitol
 * 2007: Alan Pauls
 * 2008: Ricardo Piglia
 * 2009: Roberto Bolaño
 * 2010: Elsa Cross
 * 2011: Leonardo Padura Fuentes
 * 2012: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
 * 2013: Cristina Rivera Garza
 * 2014: César Aira
 * 2015: Eduardo Halfon
 * 2016: Chico Buarque

French-speaking authors

 * 1991: Édouard Glissant
 * 1992: Jean-Marie Le Sidaner
 * 1994: Pierre Gascar
 * 1996: Gilles Lapouge
 * 1998: Kenneth White
 * 1999: Alain Jouffroy
 * 2000: François Cheng
 * 2001: Michel Waldberg
 * 2002: Gérard Macé
 * 2003: Jean Bottéro
 * 2004: Michel Braudeau
 * 2007: Éric Chevillard
 * 2008: Roger Grenier
 * 2009: Pierre Bergounioux
 * 2010: François Maspero
 * 2011: Pierre Pachet
 * 2012: Christian Garcin
 * 2013: Marcel Cohen
 * 2014: Chantal Thomas
 * 2015: Jean-Paul Iommi-Amunategui
 * 2016: Régis Debray

Essays

 * 2007: Maurice Olender
 * 2008: Serge Gruzinski
 * 2009: Paul Veyne
 * 2010: Jacqueline Risset
 * 2011: Jean-Pierre Dupuy
 * 2012: Michel Pastoureau
 * 2013: Régis Boyer
 * 2014: Jean-Yves Jouannais
 * 2015: Jean-Paul Demoule
 * 2016: Alain Corbin

Mention

 * 2016: Translator: Jacques Ancet

Special centenary prize

 * 2013 : Silvia Baron Supervielle