Serge Gruzinski, winner of the 2024 Martine Aublet Foundation Prize

The historian Serge Gruzinski won the Martine Aublet Foundation 2024 prize for his work When the Indians spoke Latin (Fayard). He succeeds Before writingof Silvia Ferrara (Éditions du Seuil), winner of the 2023 edition.

Internationally renowned historian

Specialist in Iberian globalization in the 16th century^e century, Serge Gruzinski teaches history at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in France, at Princeton University in the United States and at the Federal University of Pará in Belem, Brazil. He is the author of numerous works, including Métis Thought (Fayard,1999), The Eagle and the Dragon (Fayard, 2012) or even Conversation with a mestizo from New Spain (Fayard). His latest book When the Indians spoke Latin (Fayard) is an investigation into the questions of integration and crossbreeding in the 16th^e century.

Since 2012, the Martine Aublet Foundation prize has rewarded a non-fiction book linked to scientific disciplines developed by the Quai Branly museum.

This year, the jury was composed of Xavier Darcosof the French Academy and president of the jury, Dominique Bourgois editor, Emmanuel Kasarhéroupresident of the musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, Benoît de L’Estoiledirector of the research and teaching department at the musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, Alain Minc, Malcy Ozannateditor, Bruno Rogerpresident of the Martine Aublet Foundation, Baptiste Roger-Lacan, Mathieu Roger-Lacan, Carlo Severidirector of studies at EHESS and research director at CNRS, member of the social anthropology laboratory of the Collège de France and Alina Gurdielcoordinator of the Martine Aublet Foundation Prize.