Under the patronship of the Nobel Prize for Physics Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, a Season of Nobel Prizes will pay homage to authors who have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and to their work. The Nobel Prize, and in particular the Nobel Prize for Literature, awards the major works or discoveries of the 20th century. We hope this will be one way of honoring these much esteemed writers, whose names have gone down in history, and who it is often worth rediscovering….

A Season of Nobel Prizes crée donc sur scène la rencontre entre un auteur, une oeuvre et un public.

During Season One, 7 Nobel Prizes , once a month, were presented at the Théâtre Mouffetard (Paris 5th) :

José Saramago (Portugal, Nobel 1998)
Seeing (french version edited by Seuil / Translation by Geneviève Liebrich) .

Yasunari Kawabata (Japan, Nobel 1968)
The House of the sleeping beauties (french version edited by Albin Michel / Translation by René Sieffert).

Pär Lagerkvist (Sweden, Nobel 1951)
The dwarf (french version edited by Stock / Translation by Marguerite Gay) en décembre 2006.

Elfriede Jelinek (Austria, Nobel 2004)
Women as lovers (french version edited by Jacqueline Chambon / Translation by Yasmin Hoffmann) en janvier 2007.

William Faulkner (USA, Nobel 1949)
If I forget thee, Jerusalem (french version edited by Gallimard / Translation by François Pitavy) en février 2007.

Orhan Pamuk (Turkey, Nobel 2006)
My name is Red (french version edited by Gallimard / Translation by Gilles Authier) en mars 2007.

Albert Camus (France, Nobel 1957)
The stranger (edited by Gallimard) en mai 2007.

As an introduction, famous people from Universities, medias or the edition world presented the author honoured the same night, his/her life, his/her work. Among them…

Maria Graciete Besse Portugese Professor at the Université de Paris IV Sorbonne.

Lionel Richard Emeritus Professor at the Université de Picardie, writer.

Patrick Liégibel Executive producer for Radio France, in charge of the fiction section for France Inter.

Yasmin Hoffmann Translator, Elfriede Jelinek's biographer.

Fabrice LardreauWriter and jounalist.

François Pitavy Emeritus Professorat the Université de Bourgogne, essayist and translator.

Clémence Boulouque Writer and jounalist.

René Breton President of the Union Nationale des Aveugles et Déficients Visuels.

Ariel Kening Writer

Then actors read extracts of the chosen book in French and in the original language…

Serge Hazanavicius

Pierre Santini

Frédéric Gorny

Adriana Santini

Estelle Vincent

Anny Romand

Éric Pierrot

Alain Doutey

Gaël Zaks

Marc Duret

Leonor Baldaque (portugese)

Rié Takeuchi (japanese)

Olof Orloff (swedish)

Sonja Wiemann (german)

Douglas Brodoff (english)

Firat Celik (turkish)