The François Sommer 2025 prize goes to Franck Maubert for his work With Pierre de Ronsard (Mercury of France). The winner will be presented with their reward as a preamble to the Lire la Nature fair which will take place on 1is and February 2, 2025 at the Museum of Hunting and Nature.
Franck Maubert will speak in particular during the round table “Nature: changing perspective”, on Saturday 1is February at 5:45 p.m., alongside Thibault de Meyer (Who saw the zebra? The Links that Free) and Jacques Tassin (The gardener of RonsardOdile Jacob).
Endowment of 15,000 euros
Created in 1980, the François Sommer Prize each year honors a work – novel or essay – which explores man's relationship with nature and living things. Endowed with 15,000 euros, it promotes literary creations and scientific works which approach the theme of nature in an original way, opening new ways of thinking about contemporary ecological issues.
The jury is composed of Xavier Patierwriter, president of the jury; Vincent Munierphotographer and honorary president 2025; Sara Buekensprofessor of French and Francophone literature at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and editor-in-chief of the Critical review of contemporary French fiction ; Jean-Luc Chapinphotographer; Nicolas Chaudunwriter; Sibylle Grimbertwriter and editor; Dorian Judehead of the bookstore at the Museum of Hunting and Nature; Leon Mazzellawriter; Eric Neuhoffjournalist, essayist and writer; Catherine Pégardformer president of the public establishment of the castle, museum and national domain of Versailles; Fanny Wallendorfwriter and 2024 winner of the Prize; the Master in Transition Governance, Ecology and Societies (AgroParisTech/Paris Saclay) represented by two students, Irina Loiseau et Abel Masson.
Born in 1955, Franck Maubert is an author, journalist and art critic specializing in 20th century painting.e century. Essayist and novelist, he won the Renaudot Essay Prize in 2012 for The latest model (Ed. of the Thousand and One Nights), portrait of Caroline, Giacometti's last model and last love.
He is also the author of numerous art Books and interviews, notably with Francis Bacon to whom he devoted several works, translated into several languages. In With Pierre de Ronsard (published in August 2024 by Editions du Mercure de France), Franck Maubert follows in the poet's footsteps in Loir-et-Cher and signs a declaration of love for the Loir valley: land of rivers, hills and birds.
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