The jury highlights its contribution “to configure the feminine awareness and its emancipation of the blind inertia of history”
The writer, playwright and philosopher Franco-Argelina Hélène Cixous has been awarded the Formentor Award for Letters 2025as the jury of the awards has announced Monday. This year’s winner has an extensive work translated into multiple languages, with more than 80 published books, including fictions, theater and essay, of great influence in the field of postmodernism and feminist criticism.
As they detail in her act, the author has been recognized “by the personality of her style and her intrepid sense of creative sovereignty, for the amplitude of the intellectual disciplines that it has integrated into its numerous and protein workand for the composition of a literary work that has expanded the most illustrious inheritance of European culture. ”
The jury-reached in Valencia and constituted by Claudia Casanova, Víctor Gómez Pin, Marta Rebón, Marta Segarra, and its President Basilio Baltasar- argues that Cixous is “ready for permanent interrogation and the inquisitive look that wants to narrate everything“And he emphasizes that he has written” through philosophy, psychoanalysis, linguistics, history, intimate memory and dreamlike reverie one of the most unique literary works “of the current era.
At this point, they emphasize that it has been “more than sixty years of meticulous and tenacious writing, with their essays, novels, plays and academic activity” and consider that “It has contributed in a decisive way to configure the feminine awareness, its place in the transformations of the current century and its emancipation of the blind inertia of history“.
The act adds that the writer “has realized the wounds open by exile, misfortune and enigma of adversity.” “His sensitivity and narrative expertise has allowed him to reveal the most hidden hardships of human experience“, Apostille, without forgetting that” he has forged the artistic commitment of a literature capable of challenging a language vitiated by indolence and imitation. ”
“His tense and energized pulse with the word has allowed himincisive invention of a new literary genre“And” the trust placed in the power of the word. ”
On the occasion of the fifteenth edition of the Formentor Award, whose call was recovered in 2011, the ceremony for the delivery of this award will be held next October at the Teatro Real in Madrid.
Extensive trajectory
The writer Franco-Argelina was born in Oran in 1937. Daughter of a Jewish Jewish Jewish Jewish Jewish father, he moved to live in Paris in 1955, graduated in 1959 and obtained his doctorate in letters in 1968. He specialized in English literature and, especially, in the works of James Joyce.
In 1968, he published ‘The exile of James Joyce or the art of replacement’ and, the following year, his first novel ‘Dedans’, a work of autobiographical evocations that won the Medicis Prize. In 1969, she was appointed Professor of English Literature at the University of Paris 8 and five years later, she would found the center of the Féminines et
He has been part of the scenic projects of Théâtre du Soleil, has more than 80 published books and is part of the generation of French intellectuals and writers who have developed the most renewing currents of contemporary thinking, with links of friendship and philosophical complicity with authors such as Derrida, Foucault, Bataille and Deleuze, among others.
In Spain, he has published works such as ‘The Laughter of Medusa’ (Anthropos, 1995); ‘The reveries of the wild woman’ (hours and hours, 2003); ‘Gold. My father’s letters’ (University of Alicante, 2004); ‘Desire for writing’ (B., Reverse, 2004); ‘The city perjura’ (Ellago, 2010); ‘The love of the wolf and other regrets’ (Arena, 2009); ‘Poets in painting: writings about art, from Rembrandt to Nancy Spero’ (Ellago, 2010); ‘The perjura city or the awakening of the Erinias’ (shego, 2010); ‘The neighbor of Zero, Samuel Becket’ (Shangrila, 2018); and the compilations’ tongue to come / languish to come. Barcelona Seminar with Jacques Derrida ‘(Icaria, 2004); ‘See with Hélène Cixous’ (Icaria, 2006); and the ‘interviews with Helene Cixous. We do not write without body ‘(Icaria, 2010).
He has received numerous awards and has been recognized as Dr. Honoris Causa in many universities around the world. It has honorary degrees granted by the Queen’s University and the University of Alberta in Canada; College Dublin University in Ireland; the University of York and College London University in the United Kingdom; and the Georgetown University, the Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States.
Between Otros Premios, Ganó in 2010 El Prize for the 2009 criticism union, the shipwreckedness of the mad hope; In 2014, El Prix Marguerite Duras, El Prix de la langue française, there in 2021 the Prize of the National Library of France.