The Prix des Deux Magots is a major French literary prize. It is presented to new works, and is generally awarded to works that are more off-beat and less conventional than those that receive the more mainstream Prix Goncourt.
Gabriel-Marie-Joseph-Anselme de Broglie-Revel is a French historian and politician.
The Prix Théophraste-Renaudot or Prix Renaudot is a French literary award.
Christian Bobin was a French author and poet.
Joseph Constant was a Franco-Russian sculptor, painter and writer of Jewish origin. As a sculptor, he adopted the name "Joseph Constant", as a writer he used the pseudonym "Michel Matveev".
Macaire le Copte is a novel by François Weyergans. It was first published in Paris in 1981 by Gallimard. This book won the Prix Victor-Rossel in 1981 and the Prix des Deux Magots in 1982. The story is set in fourth century Egypt.
Jean-Marie Aimot (1901–1968) was a French novelist, critic, biographer and translator who was active in the middle third of the 20th century. His books include Nos mitrailleuses n'ont pas tiré which won the Prix des Deux Magots in 1941 and La Carrière de Raoul Champfrond, a novel which won the Prix Balzac in 1944. He wrote biographies of Mané-Katz and Henry Morton Stanley.
Georges Pillement was a French writer, translator and photographer. He was born in Mayet in the Loire region. He won the Prix des Deux Magots for his novel Plaisir d'amour in 1937.
René-Jean Clot was a French painter, and novelist. His novel, L'Enfant halluciné, won the 1987 Prix Renaudot.
André Hardellet was a French poet and writer. He was the 1974 winner of the Prix des Deux Magots.
The Prix Maison de la Presse is an annual French literary prize, established in 1970 by the Syndicat national des dépositaires de presse (SNDP) and Gabriel Cantin. Until 2005 it was known as Prix des Maisons de la Presse and given out in the two categories Novel (Roman) and Non-Fiction (Document), after which the name was changed and the categories merged into one.
Éditions de la Table ronde is a French publishing house founded in 1944 by Roland Laudenbach. Since 1996 it has been an imprint of éditions Gallimard.
Une adolescence en Gueldre is a 2005 Belgian novel by Jean-Claude Pirotte that won the Prix des Deux Magots in 2006.
The Prix du livre politique is an annual French literary prize awarded to the best political book published. The €5,000 award was established by Lire la Société, a French group whose goal is to revive interest in public affairs. The prize announcement is one of the events of the Journée du Livre Politique, organized by the group since 1991. The prize is to promote reflection, discourse and political thought. The year 2020 marks the 18th edition of this recognition, which began in 2003.
Valérie Cazeneuve called Ève de Castro (1961) is a French writer, novelist and screenwriter, a winner of the Prix des libraires in 1992, the Prix des Deux Magots and the Prix Maurice Genevoix in 1996.
The prix Contrepoint is a French literary award established in 1971 by a group of young French novelists and journalists. Each year a French-speaking novelist is selected.
Jean Loubes, or Loubès, was a French writer and translator, the winner of the Prix des Deux Magots in 1946.
Étienne de Montety is a French writer and journalist.
Michel Crépu is a French writer and literary critic as well as the editor-in-chief of Nouvelle Revue française since 2015.
Raymond Escholier, real name Raymond-Antoine-Marie-Emmanuel Escolier, was a French journalist, novelist and art critic. He was curator of the Maison de Victor Hugo and of the Petit Palais.
