Simone de Beauvoir Prize
The Simone de Beauvoir Prize (
The prize was founded by Julia Kristeva on 9 January 2008, the 100th anniversary of de Beauvoir's birth. Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir and Pierre Bras are the head of the Simone de Beauvoir prize committee.[2]
According to the organizers:
The prize is awarded every year to a remarkable personality whose courage and thoughts are examples for everybody, in the spirit of Simone de Beauvoir who wrote: "The ultimate end, for which human beings should aim, is liberty, the only capable [thing], to establish every end on."[3]
Recipients
- 2008 – Taslima Nasreen, Bangladeshi writer, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Dutch feminist, writer and politician.[4][5]
- 2009 – One Million Signatures, a campaign by the Women's rights movement in Iran, demanding changes to discriminatory laws in Iran.[6]
- 2010 – Jianmei Guo, Chinese lawyer and founder of the Women's Law Studies and Legal Aid Center at the Peking University School of Law.[7]
- 2011 – Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Russian novelist and civil rights activist
- 2012 – Association tunisienne des femmes démocrates[8]
- 2013 – Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani student, blogger and activist.[9]
- 2014 – Michelle Perrot, French historian [10]
- 2015 – National Museum of Women in the Arts[11]
- 2016 – Mayor of Lampedusa Giusi Nicolini for her involvement with the integration of immigrants on the island.
- 2017 – Polish association 'Save Women'. Barbara Nowacka accepted the prize.[12]
- 2018 – Aslı Erdoğan, Turkish writer[13]
- 2019 – Sara García Gross, Salvadoran activist[14]
References
- ^ "One Million Signature Campaign Honored with Simone de Beauvoir Award". Campaign for Equality. 9 January 2009. Archived from the original on 1 February 2009.
- ^ "Simone de Beauvoir Prize 2009 goes to the One Million Signatures Campaign in Iran". Change for Equality. 10 January 2009. Archived from the original on 1 February 2009.
- ^ "Création du prix " Simone de Beauvoir pour la liberté des femmes "" (PDF). CulturesFrance. 14 January 2008.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Exiled writer Taslima Nasreen awarded Simone de Beauvoir prize". Radio France international. 21 May 2008.
- ^ "Presentation of Simone de Beauvoir prize to Taslima Nasreen (May 21, 2008)". France-Diplomatie (French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs).
- ^ "The Simone de Beauvoir prize for Women's freedom 2009 is awarded to the Iranian campaign "One Million Signatures"" (Press release). Prix Simone de Beauvoir official weblog. 9 January 2009. Retrieved 12 October 2009.
- ^ "Le Prix « Simone de Beauvoir pour la liberté des femmes » 2010," December 26, 2009
- ^ Interview des responsables de l'association, site de l'université Paris-Diderot.
- ^ "Le Prix Simone de Beauvoir 2013 décerné à Malala Yousafzai" (in French). 28 December 2013. Retrieved 7 January 2013.
- ^ Michelle Perrot - Prix Simone de Beauvoir 2014
- ^ "National Museum of Women in the arts - Prix Simone de Beauvoir (...) - Prix Simone de Beauvoir". www.prixsimonedebeauvoir.com (in French). Retrieved 21 December 2015.
- ^ Collectif "Sauvons les femmes" - Prix Beauvoir 2017
- ^ Cécilia Lacour (12 December 2017). "Asli Erdogan, lauréate du prix Simone-de-Beauvoir pour la liberté des femmes 2018". Livres Hebdo. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
- ^ Calderón, Beatriz (9 January 2019). "Salvadoreña Sara García Gross gana premio internacional Simone de Beauvoir" [Salvadoran Sara García Gross Wins International Simone de Beauvoir Prize]. La Prensa Gráfica (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 January 2020.
External links
- Official website (in French)