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The Simone de Beauvoir Prize (French: Prix Simone de Beauvoir pour la liberté des femmes) is an international human rights prize for women's freedom, awarded since 2008 to individuals or groups fighting for gender equality and opposing breaches of human rights. It is named after the French author and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, known for her 1949 women's rights treatise The Second Sex.

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The prize was founded by Julia Kristeva on January 9, 2008, the 100th anniversary of de Beauvoir's birth. It amounts to €20,000 and is funded by Éditions Gallimard and Culturesfrance. Julia Kristeva, philosopher, is the head of the Simone de Beauvoir prize committee.

According to the organizers:

The prize is awarded every year to a remarkable personality whose courage and thoughts are examples for everybody, in the spirit of Simone de Beauvoir who wrote: "The ultimate end, for which human beings should aim, is liberty, the only capable [thing], to establish every end on."

Recipients

  • 2013 - Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani student, blogger and activist.
  • 2011 – Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Russian novelist and civil rights activist
  • 2010 – Ai Xiaoming, Chinese videographer and professor at Sun Yat-sen University, and Jianmei Guo, Chinese lawyer and founder of the Women's Law Studies and Legal Aid Center at the Peking University School of Law.
  • 2009 – One Million Signatures, a campaign by the Women's rights movement in Iran, demanding changes to discriminatory laws in Iran.
  • 2008 – Taslima Nasreen, Bangladeshi writer, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Dutch feminist, writer and politician.

    • Prize committee

    The current prize committee is composed of approximately 20 internationally known figures, including several writers, sociologists, philosophers, journalists and politicians.

    Julia Kristeva is the founder and head of the Simone de Beauvoir prize committee.

    List of committee members

    The committee members for 2009 award were, in alphabetical order, as follows:

    1. Elisabeth Badinter, author, professor of Philosophy
    2. Gerard Bonal, author
    3. Annie Ernaux, author
    4. Claire Etcherelli, author
    5. Elizabeth Fallaize, professor of French at Oxford University
    6. Madeleine Gobeil-Noel, former director of arts at UNESCO
    7. Michel Kail, publisher
    8. Liliane Kandel, sociologist
    9. Ayse Kiran, physician at Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
    10. Claude Lanzmann, filmmaker
    11. Bjorn Larsson, author
    12. Liliane Lazar, author, Simone de Beauvoir institute in the USA
    13. Annette Levy-Willard, journalist
    14. Anne-Marie Lizin, politician, former Belgian Senate president
    15. Kate Millett , American feminist
    16. Yvette Roudy, former women's rights minister in France
    17. Danièle Sallenave, author, Journalist
    18. Josyane Savigneau, journalist for Le Monde.
    19. Alice Schwarzer, German feminist
    20. Annie Sugier, president of the feminist association (association féministe)
    21. Linda Weil-Curiel, lawyer
    22. Anne Zelensky, president of the League of Women Law (la Ligue du Droit des femmes)

    References

    Simone de Beauvoir Prize Wikipedia
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