The Chadourne Prize
The Chadourne Prize was created in 2019 to pay tribute to two Limousin writers: Louis and Marc Chadourne.
The aim of the prize is to reward "a body of work or a book by a French writer, published in France, that raises awareness of the issues and reflects literary reflection on the state of the world today".
The winner of the Prix Chadourne 2025
The 2025 prize has been awarded to Michel Hazanavicius for his powerful and delicate book Carnets d'Ukraine. The director will receive his award at the Brive Book Fair on Saturday 8 November in the Saint-Libéral chapel. This will be followed by a round-table discussion on the life and work of the Chadourne brothers.
César for Best Film and Best Director, Oscars for Best Film and Best Director, British Academy Film Award for Best Film and Best Screenplay... With The Artist in 2012, French director Michel Hazanavicius has already been spoilt for choice in terms of awards: no fewer than a hundred, not counting the critical success and acclaim for his other films, from OSS 117 to La plus précieuse des marchandises, his first animated film released last year.
As an ambassador for United 24, a charity working for the defence and reconstruction of Ukraine, to which all the royalties from this book are donated, Michel Hazanavicius spent a few days on the front line in Ukraine in November 2023. From his encounters with combatants, he has drawn these Carnets d'Ukraine, a gallery of powerful and sensitive portraits of the men and women whose faces he has sketched with his incisive and poetic pencil stroke.
Chadourne Prize winners since 2019
- 2024: Hemley Boum - A fisherman's dream.
- 2023: Nicole Bacharan - La plus résistante de toutes (Chez Stock)
- 2022: Benoit Vidkine - (Les Arènes)
- 2021: Guillaume Sire - Avant la longue flamme rouge (published by Calmann Levy).
- 2020 : Patrick Deville - Amazonia (Seuil)
- 2019: Michèle Fitoussi - Janet (J.C. Lattès)
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