Jan Michalski Prize

!Year

!Author

!Original title

!English, French or German translation

!Result

!Ref.

! rowspan="10" |2010

|{{flagicon|United States}}{{flagicon|Bosnia and Herzegovina}} {{sortname|last=Hemon|first= Aleksandar}}

| colspan=2|{{sortname|last=Lazarus Project|first= The|link=The Lazarus Project (novel)}}

|Winner

|{{Cite web |title=2010 |url=https://fondation-janmichalski.com/en/prix/2010 |access-date=2022-10-03 |website=Fondation Jan Michalski |language=en}}

|{{flagicon|Saudi Arabia}}{{flagicon|Lebanon}} {{sortname|last=Al-Mohaimeed|first=Yousef}}

|{{lang|ar|فخاخ الرائحة}}

|Wolves of the Crescent Moon

| rowspan="2" |Finalists

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|{{flagicon|Australia}} {{sortname|last=Flannery|first=Tim}}

| colspan=2|{{sortname|last=Weather Makers |first= The}}

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| colspan=2|HHhH

| rowspan="7" |Nominee

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|Harmonia cælestis

|Celestial Harmonies

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|Im Sitzen läuft es sich besser davon

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|Уязвимость любви

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|Claude Monet, une vie au fil de l’eau

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|{{sortname|last=Argentinier |first= Der|nolink=1}}

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|Похороните меня за плинтусом

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! rowspan="7" |2011

|{{flagicon|Hungary}} {{sortname|last=Dragomán|first= György}}

|{{sortname|last=fehér király |first= A|nolink=1}}

|{{sortname|last=White King|first=The}}

|Winner

|{{Cite web |title=2011 |url=https://fondation-janmichalski.com/en/prix/2011 |access-date=2022-10-03 |website=Fondation Jan Michalski |language=en}}

|{{flagicon|Philippines}} {{sortname|last=Syjuco|first=Miguel}}

| colspan="2" |Ilustrado

| rowspan="2" |Finalists

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|{{flagicon|Iceland}} Sjón

|Skugga-Baldur

|{{sortname|last=Blue Fox|first=The|link=The Blue Fox (novel)}}

|

| —

|No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems

| rowspan="4" |Nominee

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|Pol Pots leende

|Pol Pot’s Smile

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|Проект Одиночество

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|Godot i jego cień

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! rowspan="9" |2012

|{{flagicon|United Kingdom}} {{sortname|last=Lovell|first= Julia}}

| colspan=2| {{sortname|last=Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China |first= The|nolink=1}}

|Winner

|{{Cite web |title=2012 |url=https://fondation-janmichalski.com/en/prix/2012 |access-date=2022-10-03 |website=Fondation Jan Michalski |language=en}}

|{{flagicon|Austria}} {{sortname|last=Pollack |first=Martin}}

|Kaiser von Amerika: Die große Flucht aus Galizien

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| rowspan="2" |Finalists

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|{{flagicon|United States}} {{sortname|last=Snyder|first=Timothy}}

|colspan=2| Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

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|Franz Schubert

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| rowspan="6" |Nominee

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|Kampuchéa

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| colspan=2| Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred

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| colspan=2| {{sortname|last=Devil All the Time |first= The|nolink=1}}

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|Острый нож для мягкого сердца

|Couteau tranchant pour un cœur tendre

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|Hokusaï aux doigts d’encre

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! rowspan="11" |2013

|{{flagicon|Iran}} {{sortname|last=Dowlatabadi|first=Mahmoud}}

|{{lang|fa|زوال کلنل}}

|{{sortname|last=Colonel |first= The|nolink=1}}

|Winner

|{{cite web |author=Sal Robinson |date=November 14, 2013 |title=Mahmoud Dowlatabadi wins the 2013 Jan Michalski Prize |url=http://www.mhpbooks.com/mahmoud-dowlatabadi-wins-the-2013-jan-michalski-prize/ |accessdate=November 13, 2013 |publisher=Melville House Publishing |archive-date=December 7, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207160136/http://www.mhpbooks.com/mahmoud-dowlatabadi-wins-the-2013-jan-michalski-prize/ |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |title=2013 |url=https://fondation-janmichalski.com/en/prix/2013 |access-date=2022-10-03 |website=Fondation Jan Michalski |language=en}}

|{{flagicon|France}} {{sortname|last=Gruzinski|first=Serge}}

|L’aigle et le Dragon: Démesure européenne et mondialisation au XVIe siècle

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| rowspan="2" |Finalists

| rowspan="2" |{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=August 6, 2013 |title=Awards: Jan Michalski Prize for Literature |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2056 |access-date=2022-10-03 |website=Shelf Awareness}}

|{{flagicon|Sweden}} {{sortname|last=Sem-Sandberg|first=Steve}}

|De fattiga i Łódź

|{{sortname|last=Emperor of Lies |first= The|nolink=1}}

| colspan=2 |{{sortname|last=Old Ways: A Journey on Foot |first= The|nolink=1}}

| rowspan="2" |Second selection

| —

|{{sortname|last=Walls of Delhi |first= The|nolink=1}}

|Good night, Dżerzi

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| rowspan="6" |First selection

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|盛世：中國，2013年

|{{sortname|last=Fat Years |first= The|nolink=1}}

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|ஸீரோ டிகிரி

|Zero Degree

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|Bête de cirque

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|Chet Baker piensa en su arte

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|colspan=2|Building Stories

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! rowspan="12" |2014

|{{flagicon|Ukraine}} {{sortname|last=Zhadan|first=Serhiy}}

|Ворошиловград

|Voroshylovhrad

|Winner

|{{Cite web |last=Brack |first=Joëlle |date=28 November 2014 |title=Prix Jan Michalski 2014ImprimerPartager par e-mail avec un ami |url=https://www.payot.ch/fr/dossiers-d'actualite/actualit-eacute-du-livre/2014/prix-jan-michalski-2014 |access-date=2022-10-02 |website=Payot Libraire |language=French}}{{Cite web |title=2014 |url=https://fondation-janmichalski.com/en/prix/2014 |access-date=2022-10-03 |website=Fondation Jan Michalski |language=en}}

|{{flagicon|South Africa}} {{sortname|last=Gevisser|first=Mark}}

| colspan=2|Dispatcher: Lost and Found in Johannesburg

| rowspan="2" |Finalists

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|{{flagicon|United States}} {{sortname|last=Shore|first=Marci}}

| colspan=2|{{sortname|last=Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe|first=The|nolink=1}}

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| colspan=2|China’s War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival

| rowspan="2" |Second selection

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|Confiteor

|Confessions

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|Atavismes

|Atavisms

| rowspan="7" |First selection

|Oublier, trahir puis disparaître

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| colspan=2|Enon

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| colspan=2|Second Childhood

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|Salki

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|Bonavia

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|{{lang|ar|ملائكة الجنوب}}

|Engel des Südens

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! rowspan="12" |2015

|{{flagicon|United Kingdom}} {{sortname|last=Thompson|first=Mark|link=Mark Thompson (historian)}}

| colspan=2|Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kiš

|Winner

|{{Cite web |title=2015 |url=https://fondation-janmichalski.com/en/prix/2015 |access-date=2022-10-03 |website=Fondation Jan Michalski |language=en}}

|{{flagicon|Germany}}{{flagicon|Iran}} {{sortname|last=Kermani|first=Navid}}

|Zwischen Koran und Kafka: West-östliche Erkundungen

|Between Quran and Kafka: West-Eastern Inquiries

| rowspan="2" |Finalists

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|{{flagicon|Iraq}}{{flagicon|Germany}} {{sortname|last=Wali|first=Najem}}

|{{lang|ar|بغداد مالبورو، من أجل برادلي مانينك}}

|Bagdad Marlboro: Ein Roman für Bradley Manning

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|{{sortname|last=Fleur du Capital|first=La|nolink=1}}

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| rowspan="2" |Second selection

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| colspan=2|My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel

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|{{sortname|last=neue Ordnung auf dem alten Kontinent: Eine Geschichte des neoliberalen Europa|first=Die|nolink=1}}

|Europe since 1989: A History

| rowspan="7" |First selection

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|Matei Brunul

|L’histoire de Bruno Matei

|{{sortname|last=grande santé|first=La|nolink=1}}

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|Noir parfait

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| colspan=2|Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life

| colspan=2|Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus: A Biography

|Traduire comme transhumer

|Translation as Transhumance

! rowspan="14" |2016

|{{flagicon|Bulgaria}} {{sortname|last=Gospodinov|first=Georgi}}

|Физика на тъгата

|Physics of Sorrow

|Winner

|{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=May 18, 2022 |title=Reading with... Georgi Gospodinov |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4235 |access-date=2022-10-03 |website=Shelf Awareness}}{{Cite web |title=2016 |url=https://fondation-janmichalski.com/en/prix/2016 |access-date=2022-10-03 |website=Fondation Jan Michalski |language=en}}

|{{flagicon|Bosnia and Herzegovina}} {{sortname|last=Karahasan|first=Dževad}}

|Što pepeo priča

|{{sortname|last=Solace of the Night Sky|first=The|nolink=1}}

| rowspan="2" |Finalists

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|{{flagicon|United Kingdom}}{{flagicon|United States}} {{sortname|last=Taseer|first=Aatish}}

| colspan=2|{{sortname|last=Way Things Were|first=The|nolink=1}}

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| colspan=2|Levels of Life

| rowspan="2" |Second selection

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|Ungläubiges Staunen: Über das Christentum

|Wonder Beyond Belief: On Christianity

| colspan=2|Bright Dead Things

| rowspan="9" |First selection

|colspan=2| Curiosity

|{{sortname|last=éjszaka mélyén, 1914|first=Az|nolink=1}}

|Husar in der Hölle, 1914

|''{{sortname|last=vita non è in ordine alfabetico|first=La|nolink=1}}

|

|{{sortname|last=colonel et l’appât 455|first=Le|nolink=1}}

|{{sortname|last=Man Who Snapped His Fingers|first=The|nolink=1}}

| colspan=2| Louis Michel Eilshemius: Peer of Poet-Painters

| colspan=2| Poetry and Radical Politics in fin de siècle France: From Anarchism to Action française

|{{sortname|last=millón de gotas|first=Un|nolink=1}}

|{{sortname|last=Million Drops|first=A|nolink=1}}

|Warum Europa eine Republik werden muss! Eine politische Utopie

|Why Europe Should Become a Republic! A Political Utopia

! rowspan="9" |2017

|{{flagicon|France}} {{sortname|last=Wolton|first=Thierry}}

|{{sortname|last=histoire mondiale du communisme|first=Une|nolink=1}}

|

|Winner

|{{Cite web |title=2017 |url=https://fondation-janmichalski.com/en/prix/2017 |access-date=2022-10-03 |website=Fondation Jan Michalski |language=en}}

|{{flagicon|India}} {{sortname|last=Liang|first=Lawrence}} et al.

| colspan=2|Invisible Libraries

| rowspan="2" |Finalists

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|{{flagicon|China}}{{flagicon|Germany}} {{sortname|last=Yiwu|first=Liao}}

|輪迴的螞蟻

|{{sortname|last=Wiedergeburt der Ameisen|first=Die|nolink=1}}

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| colspan=2|When Breath Becomes Air

| rowspan="2" |Second selection

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|Guguły

|Swallowing Mercury

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|Танґо смерті

|Tango of Death

| rowspan="4" |First selection

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|L’état actuel des choses

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|Solo ombre: Silhouettes storiche, letterarie e mondane

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| colspan=2| {{sortname|last=Silk Roads: A New History of the World|first=The|link=The Silk Roads}}

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! rowspan="9" |2018

|{{flagicon|Poland}} {{sortname|last=Tokarczuk|first=Olga}}

|Księgi Jakubowe

|{{sortname|last=Books of Jacob|first=The}}

|Winner

|{{Cite web |title=2018 |url=https://fondation-janmichalski.com/en/prix/2018 |access-date=2022-10-03 |website=Fondation Jan Michalski |language=en}}

|{{flagicon|Israel}} {{sortname|last=Harari|first=Yuval Noah}}

|ההיסטוריה של המחר

|Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

| rowspan="2" |Finalists

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|{{flagicon|France}} {{sortname|last=Rolin|first=Jean|link=Jean Rolin (writer)}}

|{{sortname|last=traquet kurde|first=Le|nolink=1}}

|

|

|{{sortname|last=totale Rausch: Drogen im Dritten Reich|first=Der|nolink=1}}

|Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich

| rowspan="2" |Second selection

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| colspan=2|Other People’s Countries: A Journey into Memory

|

| colspan=2| {{sortname|last=Argonauts|first=The}}

| rowspan="4" |First selection

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| colspan=2|Vernon Subutex

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| colspan=2|Bad Machine

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| colspan=2|We That Are Young

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! rowspan="6" |2019

|{{flagicon|Israel}} {{sortname|last=Shalev|first=Zeruya}}

|כאב

|Pain

|Winner

|{{Cite web |title=2019 |url=https://fondation-janmichalski.com/en/prix/2019 |access-date=2022-10-03 |website=Fondation Jan Michalski |language=en}}

|{{flagicon|Italy}} {{sortname|last=Melandri|first=Francesca}}

|Sangue giusto

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| rowspan="2" |Finalists

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|{{flagicon|Czechia}}{{flagicon|France}} {{sortname|last=Ouředník|first=Patrik}}

|{{sortname|last=fin du monde n’aurait pas eu lieu|first=La|nolink=1}}

|{{sortname|last=End of the World Might Not Have Taken Place|first=The|nolink=1}}

|

|{{sortname|last=bibliotecaria de Auschwitz|first=La|nolink=1}}

|{{sortname|last=Librarian of Auschwitz|first=The|nolink=1}}

|Second selection

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|{{sortname|last=ciel ne parle pas|first=Le|nolink=1}}

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| rowspan="2" |First selection

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|Stien tilbake til livet: Om sopp og sorg

|{{sortname|last=Way Through the Woods: Of Mushrooms and Mourning|first=The|nolink=1}}

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! rowspan="16" |2020

|{{flagicon|Mozambique}} {{sortname|last=Couto|first=Mia}} with David Brookshaw (trans.)

|{{sortname|last=Areias do Imperador|first=As|nolink=1}}

|Sands of the Emperor

|Winner

|{{Cite web |last=Anderson |first=Porter |date=2020-12-11 |title=Switzerland's 2020 Jan Michalski Prize Goes to Mia Couto |url=https://publishingperspectives.com/2020/12/switzerland-2020-jan-michalski-foundation-prize-goes-to-mia-couto-covid19/ |access-date=2022-10-03 |website=Publishing Perspectives |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=2020 |url=https://fondation-janmichalski.com/en/prix/2020 |access-date=2022-10-03 |website=Fondation Jan Michalski |language=en}}

|{{flagicon|United States}} {{sortname|last=Ross|first=Fran}}

| colspan=2|Oreo

| rowspan="2" |Finalists

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|{{flagicon|United Kingdom}}{{flagicon|France}} {{sortname|last=Sands|first=Philippe}}

| colspan=2|East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity

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|Briser en nous la mer gelée

|

| rowspan="2" |Second selection

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|Vies conjugales

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|An einem klaren, eiskalten Januarmorgen zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts

|One Clear, Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century

| rowspan="11" |First selection

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|Arv og miljø

|Will and Testament

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|Cieśniny

|

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|Croire aux fauves

|In the Eye of the Wild

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|Коханці юстиції

|{{sortname|last=Lieblinge der Justiz|first=Die|nolink=1}}

|

|colspan=2| {{sortname|last=Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures|first=The|nolink=1}}

|

|{{sortname|last=Légèreté|first=La|nolink=1}}

|Lightness

|

|Предел забвения

|Oblivion

|

|{{sortname|last=jour d’avant|first=Le|nolink=1}}

|

|

| colspan=2|{{sortname|last=Sympathizer|first=The}}

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|209 rue Saint-Maur, Paris X^e: Autobiographie d’un immeuble

|{{sortname|last=Department of Missing Persons|first=The|nolink=1}}

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! rowspan="16" |2021

|{{flagicon|Russia}} Memorial International (Alena Kozlova, Nikolai Mikhailov, Irina Ostrovskaya, and Irina Scherbakova) with Georgia Thomson (trans.)

|Знак не сотрется: Судьбы остарбайтеров в письмах, воспоминаниях и устных рассказах

|OST: Letters, Memoirs and Stories from Ostarbeiter in Nazi Germany

|Winner

|{{Cite web |title=2021 |url=https://fondation-janmichalski.com/en/prix/2021 |access-date=2022-10-03 |website=Fondation Jan Michalski |language=en}}

|{{flagicon|United States}} {{sortname|last=Huyler|first=Frank}}

| colspan=2|White Hot Light: Twenty-five Years in Emergency Medicine

| rowspan="2" |Finalists

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|{{flagicon|Guatemala}} {{sortname|last=Halfon|first=Eduardo}} with Lisa Dillman and Daniel Hahn (trans.)

|Duelo

|Mourning

|

|colspan=2|{{sortname|first=The|last=Lost Pianos of Siberia|nolink=1}}

| rowspan="2" |Second selection

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|Дебютант

|Untraceable

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|colspan=2|Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate

| rowspan="11" |First selection

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|Tríptico da Salvação

|

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|Открывается внутрь

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|Памяти памяти

|In Memory of Memory

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|Verzeichnis einiger Verluste

|{{sortname|last=Inventory of Losses|first=An}}

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|Qui a tué mon père

|Who Killed My Father

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|Gérard: Cinq années dans les pattes de Depardieu

|Gérard: Five Years with Depardieu

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|{{sortname|last=année exemplaire|first=Une|nolink=1}}

|

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|L’homme surnuméraire

|

|

|{{sortname|last=grands cerfs|first=Les|nolink=1}}

|

|

|{{sortname|last=libro de Ana|first=El|nolink=1}}

|{{sortname|last=Book of Anna|first=The|nolink=1}}

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! rowspan="11" |2022

|{{flagicon|Finland}}{{flagicon|France}} {{sortname|last=Tervonen|first=Taina}}

|Les fossoyeuses

|

|Winner

|{{Cite web |title=2022 |url=https://fondation-janmichalski.com/en/prix/pjm2022 |access-date=2023-06-26 |website=Fondation Jan Michalski |language=en}}

|{{flagicon|Brazil}} {{sortname|last=Brum|first=Eliane}} with Diane Grosklaus Whitty (trans.)

|{{sortname|last=vida que ninguém vê|first=A|nolink=1}}

|The Collector of Leftover Souls: Dispatches from Brazil

| rowspan="2" |Finalists

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|{{flagicon|Afghanistan|2013}}{{flagicon|United Kingdom}} Untold Narratives

| —

|My Pen is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women

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|Dans leur nuit

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| rowspan="2" |Second selection

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|colspan=2| Civilizations

|

|{{sortname|last=ciel par-dessus le toit|first=Le|nolink=1}}

|{{sortname|last=Sky Above the Roof|first=The|nolink=1}}

| rowspan="6" |First selection

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|colspan=2|{{sortname|last=Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again|first=The|nolink=1}}

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|Времеубежище

|Time Shelter

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|colspan=2| River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads

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|{{sortname|last=fille qu’on appelle|first=La|nolink=1}}

|{{sortname|last=Girl You Call|first=The|nolink=1}}

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|{{sortname|last=passeur|first=Le|nolink=1}}

|

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! rowspan="14" |2023

|{{flagicon|Venezuela}}{{flagicon|Spain}} {{sortname|last=Sainz Borgo|first=Karina}}

|{{sortname|last=Tercer País|first=El|nolink=1}}

|

|Winner

|{{Cite web |title=Literature Prize |url=https://fondation-janmichalski.com/en/prix |access-date=2023-06-26 |website=Fondation Jan Michalski |language=en}}

|{{flagicon|Canada}} {{sortname|last=Simard|first=Suzanne}}

|colspan=2|Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest

| rowspan="2" |Finalists

|{{flagicon|Uzbekistan}}{{flagicon|United Kingdom}} {{sortname|last=Ismailov|first=Hamid}} with Donald Rayfield (trans.)

|

|Manaschi

|Due vite

|

| rowspan="2" |Second selection

|{{sortname|last=opgang|first=De|nolink=1}}

|{{sortname|last=Ascent|first=The|nolink=1}}

|

|Trois femmes disparaissent

|

| rowspan="9" |First selection

|Anéantir

|Annihilation

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| colspan=2| Boulder

|

| colspan=2| Bright Unbearable Reality

|

|{{sortname|last=libro de todos los amores|first=El|nolink=1}}

|{{sortname|last=Book of All Loves|first=The|nolink=1}}

|

|Kärlekens Antarktis

|{{sortname|last=Antarctica of Love|first=The|nolink=1}}

|

|Havets kirkegård

|{{sortname|last=Sea Cemetery|first=The|nolink=1}}

|

| colspan=2|My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route

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|colspan=2|What Are You Going Through?

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! rowspan="14" |2024

|{{flagicon|Canada}} {{sortname|last=Beaton|first=Kate}}

|colspan=2|Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

|Winner

|{{Cite web |title=Literature Prize |url=https://fondation-janmichalski.com/en/prix |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=Fondation Jan Michalski |language=en}}

|{{flagicon|France}} {{sortname|last=Belazi|first=Mathieu}}

|Attaquer la terre et le soleil

|

| rowspan="2" |Finalists

|{{flagicon|Spain}} {{sortname|last=Solà|first=Irene}}

|Canto jo i la muntanya balla

|When I Sing, Mountains Dance

|{{lang|ar|في أثر عنايات الزيات}}

|Traces of Enayat

| rowspan="2" |Second selection

|{{sortname|last=autobiographie de Nina Childress|first=Une|nolink=1}}

|

|

|colspan=2|Austral

| rowspan="9" |First selection

|Avec les fées

|

|

|Infokratie: Digitalisierung und die Krise der Demokratie

|Infocracy: Digitization and the Crisis of Democracy

|

|James Brown mettait des bigoudis

|

|

|colspan=2|Wandering Souls

|

|colspan=2|My Friends

|

|Páradais

|Paradais

|

|Sans valeur

|

|

|colspan=2|{{sortname|last=Future Future|first=The|nolink=1}}

|