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€10,000 Michel Deon Prize to be awarded for work of non-fiction

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The Royal Irish Academy will choose a winner of the inaugural €10,000 Michel Déon Prize before the end of this year.

The prize will be awarded for the best work of non-fiction by a writer living in Ireland. It is named after the French writer Michel Déon, who lived for more than 40 years in the west of Ireland.

Déon died in Galway at the age of 97 on December 28th, 2016. He published more than 50 works of fiction and non-fiction.

Horseman Pass By,” his tribute to Ireland, was published by Lilliput Press in Dublin shortly before his death. Two of Déon’s novels from the early 1970s, “The Wild Ponies” and “A Purple Taxi”, won major French literary awards. Both were set partly or entirely in Ireland. The film adaptation of “Un Taxi Mauve” was shot in Connemara and starred Charlotte Rampling, Peter Ustinov and Fred Astaire.

Déon was elected to the Académie française in 1978. The Académie will announce its own Prix Michel Déon on December 6th. The €10,000 prize will be funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Source The Irish Times August 2018

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