Literary prize of Cotentin

The Literary prize of Cotentin is decreed every year with a book written by a writer originating in the Cotentin or whose action takes place in this area or whose topic celebrates it.

It was created in 1965 by the deputy and mayor of Valognes Pierre Godefroy and some scholars of the English Channel: Fernand Lechanteur, headmaster of the Malherbe college, Albert Postel, farmer, Jean Barbaroux, director of the Mail of the English Channel , Côtis-Capel, priest and poet, Jean Mabire, journalist, Andre Dupont and Marcel Lelégard, abbot. They summer

The jury is currently chaired by Roger-Jean Lebarbenchon.

Prizes winner

1964 : Côtis-Capel for With Gravage
1965: Jean Follain
1966: Charles of Morandière
1967: Frank Maistre for the Dictionary Jersey-French
1968: Hermann Quéru
1969: Jean Adigard of Gautries
1970: Andre Dupont for the Epopee Cotentine
1971: Andre Louis for Zabeth
1972: Louis Costel for the Last wizard of the Mount-Etenclin
1973: Nicole Bressy for Of wildfowl
1974: George F. Feuvre for Jerri formerly
1975: Lucien Lepoittevin for Jean-François Millet
1976: Joseph All Saints' day
1977: Rene Lepelley for Speech of the Valley of Saire
1978: Jean the Young person for Guillaume Fouace
1979: Jean Batch
1980: Roger-Jean Lebarbenchon
1981: Madeleine Foisil for Sir de Gouberville
1982: Albert Piquet for Perforated of Normandy
1983: Lucien Musset
1984: Hippolyte Gancel for Speech of the Saint-Laws and Plunderers and flowers
1985: Jean-Jacques Bertaux for People of Cotentin
1986: Yves Nedelec
1987: Jean of Varende, on a purely posthumous basis
1988: Popular university of North-Cotentin
1989: Andree Hirschi
1990: Jean Lemelletier for Of the English Channel towards England
1991: Edmond Thin
1992: Roger Lepelley
1993: Gift Whale of Jersey for the Bulletin of the assembly of Jersey
1994: Jean Quellien
1995: Michel Besnier
1996: Maurice Lecoeur
1997: Abbot Jean Canu
1998: Guy Deschamps
1999: Mgr Bernard Jacqueline
2000: Jean-Louis Benoit
2001: Patrick Avrane for Barbey d' Aurevilly, recluse and singular
2002: Jacques Rouil for Donadieu
2003: Celine Guénolé for Pierre the Tale, painter and imagier of the Navy
2004: Michel Pinel, for the War of the Hedges, summer 1994
2005: Didier Decoin for With sight on the sea
2006: Alexis Salatko for his book Horowitz and my father and Remi Mauger for his film Paul in his life
2007: Guillaume de Monfreid for extreme Normandy

Source

Matthieu All Saints' day, the Literary prize of Cotentin at 40 years. By love of this ground corner, the free English Channel, 12 October 16th, 2005

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