Servais Prize for Literature
2 appearances
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Edition 3 (1994) Winner
Jean Portante
ジャン・ポルタント
Jan Porutanto
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1950-12-19 （Differdange）
- Nationality
- Luxembourg
- Languages
- French
- Residence History
- Differdange, Luxembourg → Nancy, France → Paris, France
Career
- Occupations
- novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, translator, magazine editor
- Active Years
- 1983-2024
- Affiliations
- Académie Mallarmé, Société des Gens de Lettres, Prix Guillaume Apollinaire
- Memberships
- Académie Mallarmé
- Influenced By
- Juan Gelman, Gonzalo Rojas
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Rutebeuf Prize | Horizon, vertige & italie intercalaire | poetry | — | winner |
| 1993 | Tony Bourg Prize | Ouvert fermé | — | — | winner |
| 1994 | Servais Prize | Mrs Haroy ou la mémoire de la baleine | — | — | winner |
| 2003 | Louis Montalto Poetry Award of the Society of Men of Letters | — | poetry | Société des Gens de Lettres | winner |
| 2003 | Prix Mallarmé | L’étrange langue | — | Académie Mallarmé | winner |
| 2011 | Batty Weber Prize | — | — | — | winner |
Rutebeuf Prize
1986
Work:
Horizon, vertige & italie intercalaire
Category:
poetry
Result:
winner
Tony Bourg Prize
1993
Work:
Ouvert fermé
Result:
winner
Servais Prize
1994
Work:
Mrs Haroy ou la mémoire de la baleine
Result:
winner
Louis Montalto Poetry Award of the Society of Men of Letters
2003
Category:
poetry
Organization:
Société des Gens de Lettres
Result:
winner
Prix Mallarmé
2003
Work:
L’étrange langue
Organization:
Académie Mallarmé
Result:
winner
Batty Weber Prize
2011
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Batty Weber Prize (Prix Batty Weber)
1 appearances
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Edition 9 (2011) Winner
Works
Major Works
Mrs Haroy ou la mémoire de la baleine
1997 novelA novel about the memory of a whale, exploring themes of identity and world citizenship from early age.
memoryidentityforgetfulness
Adaptations
- [film] Mrs Haroy (2010)
Translations
- translated into many languages
Translations by Author
- Poetry by Juan Gelman, Gonzalo Rojas, etc.
Translations of Works
- Point/Erasing (English, tr. Anne Marie Glasheen)
- In Reality (English, tr. Zoë Skoulding)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- strong intertextualityevolving style
- Recurring Motifs
- identitymemory to forgetfulness
Legacy
Since early 1980s, explores identity from memory to forgetfulness in poetry, novels, drama, essays. Promotes Luxembourg literature at home and abroad.
Trivia
- Began writing at age 33
- Calls French a 'strange language'
- Heads literary magazine Transkrit and Phi editions
- Co-founded French poetry magazine Inuits dans la jungle