Prize

Although Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt keeps his distance from the literary and political world, he has won many awards and distinctions. We should like to thank everyone who has shown their appreciation of his work by honouring it in this way. Below, is a list of his awards:

  • 2023, France, Gold Medal with the Plaque of Honour awarded by the Academic Society for the Arts, Sciences and Literature.

  • 2021, France, Author’s Prize awarded by the “LIRE” Society [“Books for Integration and the Denial of Exclusion”]

  • 2020, France, Jules Renard Prize awarded by the Alphonse Allais Academy

  • 2014, Poland, Reading Ambassador Prize awarded by Polish Book Institute

  • 2012 Belgium, elected to the Royal Academy of Language and Literature in Belgium

  • 2012, France, Ardua Prize 2012 awarded by the Society of Accreditation of the

    Universities of Aquitaine

  • 2012, France, Agrippa-d’Aubigné Prize awarded by the Lions Club for his novel La

    femme au miroir

  • 2012, Spain Ola de Oro [Golden Wave] Award for the film Oscar and the Lady in Pink

  • 2010 France, Goncourt Short Story Prize for Concerto to the Memory of an Angel

  • 2010, Russia, The Petersburg Reading Prize awarded for the entirety of his work.

  • 2009, Italy, Scrivere per Amore [Writing for Love] Award for The Dreamer of Ostend

  • 2009, France, Open Spaces Award for Ulysses from Bagdad

  • 2006, Belgium, Foreign Literature Prize awarded by the Scriptores Christiani [Christian Writers in Belgium] for Milarepa, Oscar and the Lady in Pink, Noah’s Child, Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran and The Visitor

  • 2005, France, Rotary Prize for Noah's Child

  • 2005, France, Moliere Best Author nomination for The Gospel According to Pilate

  • 2005, Switzerland, Chronos Prize for Oscar and the Lady in Pink

  • 2004, Germany, Berlin, Quadriga Prize for “the humanity and wisdom he brings with his humour”

  • 2004, Germany, German Book Award (Readers’ Choice) for his novella Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran

  • 2004, France, the literary magazine Lire conducted a survey among its French readers to discover “which books had changed their lives”: Oscar and the Lady in Pink, the only book by a living author, found its place alongside classics such as The Bible, The Three Musketeers and The Little Prince

  • 2004, France, Chronos Prize for Oscar and the Lady in Pink

  • 2004, France, Jean Bernard Prize awarded by the Academy of Medicine for Oscar and the Lady in Pink

  • 2004, France, Lyon, SELIRE Prize [“Society of Writers and the Book of Lyon and Rhône- Alpes”]

  • 2001, France, the principal Theatre Prize of the French Academy for the entirety of his work

  • 2001, France, appointed Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres [Knight of the Order of Arts and Literature]

  • 2000, France, Elle Magazine Readers’ Prize for The Gospel According to Pilate

  • 2000, France, seven nominations for Moliere Awards for Between Worlds

  • 1998, France, Paris, Balzac Academy Award for Frederick or the Crime Boulevard

  • 1997, France, Paris, six nominations for Moliere Awards for The Libertine

  • 1997, Germany, Cologne, City Theatre Prize for The Libertine

  • 1996, France, Paris, two nominations for Moliere Awards for Enigma Variations

  • 1994/95, France, First Novel Prize for The Sect of the Egoists

  • 1993, France, Paris, three Moliere Awards for Theatrical Revelation, Best Author and Best Show by a Private Theatre for The Visitor.