Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française

The Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française is a French literary award, established in 1911 by the Académie française. It goes to an author for his entire oeuvre. Originally an annual prize, it has since 1979 been handed out every second year, alternately with the Grand prix de littérature Paul-Morand.[1]

Laureates
Romain Rolland, recipient in 1913
Abel Bonnard, recipient in 1924
Jean Paulhan, recipient in 1945
Julien Green, recipient in 1970
Marguerite Yourcenar, recipient in 1977
Jean Raspail, recipient in 2003
gollark: Are you just meant to have a basement operation doing highly advanced chemical synthesis or something for, say, new drug testing?
gollark: Also, many modern discoveries are basically impossible without stuff like "laboratories" and "full-time scientists" and supply chains providing the stuff they need.
gollark: As you go over that you probably have to keep adopting more and more norms and then guidelines and then rules and then laws to keep stuff coordinated.
gollark: Consider a silicon fab, which is used to make computer chips we need. That requires billions of $ in capital and thousands of people and probably millions more in supply chains.
gollark: Also, what do you mean "so what"? Technological progress directly affects standards of living.

References
  1. "Grand Prix de Littérature" (in French). Académie française. Retrieved 2014-12-02.
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