; Thank you for being with us in these times of tension, confusing time, which is the word barbarism that seems necessary. Here during the time of the ceremony, what are other words you'll hear the word freedom and the word women, and this is not an angelic, and folklore. We believe that this is perhaps the best way to make that culture is an intelligent civilization that is synonymous with the rights of men and for women. It in this spirit that we are here and thank you for supporting us by your presence in this fight.
Ludmila Ulitskaya Coffee Les Deux Magots in Paris
January 10, 2011, photo Sophie Zhang
In presenting this award, I am pleased and honored all years in the famous Café Les Deux Magots she attended with Sartre - a prestigious venue for which I thank the hospitality and the team in the person of Mr. Jacques Mativa, Catherine and Francis Dupin Mativa of recall some thoughts Beauvoir herself on the freedom of women and which guide our choices: support still hope for many women who love freedom, and resistance to economic terrorism, politics and religion in all its forms and on all continents
"The end Supreme that man must aim is freedom, one can found the value end. Freedom is never given, but still to conquer. ( For moral ambiguity).
"We are free transcend all transcendence, we can always escape "elsewhere", but this also is still somewhere in our human condition we do it échappons ever and we have no way to consider it from the outside to judge. It alone makes possible the floor. "(Pyrrhus and Cineas) ;
" There was no God to love me, but I would burn in millions of hearts. Nourished by writing a work of my story, I'll create myself anew and I would justify my existence " ( Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter ).
And this year I add these words you read in balance (1972): "WRITING IS STILL THE GREAT CASE OF MY LIFE."
is the writer Simone de Beauvoir as we thought before, while awarding the Simone de Beauvoir for the year 2011.
During the first three years of its existence, the Prix Simone de Beauvoir for the freedom of women "has distinguished women or organizations who demonstrate exemplary commitment in the fight for rights women.
2008: Taslima Nasreen and Ayan Hirsi Ali, threatened with fatwas by Islamic fundamentalists. 2009: The Collective Iranian "One million signatures" for his fight for the repeal of discriminatory laws against women in Iran, what came to welcome here the great Iranian poet Simin Behbahani, 2910: two Chinese women who struggle for women's rights in China, and the lawyer Guo Jianmei videographer and literature professor Ai Xiaoming.
For 2011, the Jury felt it was important to encourage creativity women , which is manifested and affirmed their emancipation, facing crippling economic crises and social threats of commoditization and minds cultures. The Prize "Simone de Beauvoir on Freedom of Women" 2011 welcomes in this spirit, the literary work of Ms. Ludmila Ulitskaya, whose exceptional quality, coupled with a keen sense of justice and democracy, has recalled all this fundamental dimension which has made freedom of Simone de Beauvoir herself. By honoring a Russian writer, the Prize is designed specifically for women and views of so-called emerging powers (the BRIC countries including Russia is a part), for which the freedom of women remains a major challenge, to win the respect diversity Cultural and without yielding to the change of civilization heralds freedom for the "second sex" by Simone de Beauvoir.
Ludmila Ulitskaya, Café Les Deux Magots in Paris
January 10, 2011, photo GK Galabov
Dear LUDMILA Yevgenyevna Ulitskaya,
You are the author of numerous novels and short stories (Sold over 2 million copies), and several screenplays. But your first book, The poor parents, is a collection of short stories which first appears before Gallimard published in Russian. While Editions Gallimard celebrate their 100 th anniversary is a sign of the vitality of this house, but also of the French language, to have published for the first time a writer like you, whose existential courage and literary talent are only reveal themselves and assert themselves over time. You've published a dozen books Gallimard: Sonechka, Medea and her children, The Funeral, A love so beautiful and Other Stories, The Case of Dr. Kousotski, Shurik Sincerely, Lies women, Daniel Stein, performer, and the last ;: topics our Tsar.
Still, women are central characters in your work: whether the Russian family, immigration, abortion or death, mythology ( including Greek, with Ulysses, Penelope, and Medea) or the imagination - to lie in innovation - makes women unsinkable within hours of traditions, religions, persecution and other corporate transformations and manners: your heroine through the loves and often coexist with death, still inhabited ; an elusive irony that in fact guards at the heart of the unlivable. You define yourself as a practitioner in your novels "applied anthropology" always "limited Eros and Thanatos" (I quote).
Writer lighthouse of your generation, you echo the revival of Russian literature. You hope it will be better known and read when the world has been so saturated with a certain taste for literature only "Coca Cola" you say, it will turn to ;-style bitter, caustic, funny texts Russian ... of your text. Dealing with universal problems and does not refrain about: not the religious problems (Example, Daniel Stein, Translator ) or political passions ( The subjects of our Tsar ). The French public you know little, Simone de Beauvoir Prize will allow it, I'm sure you explore and discover.
born during the Second World War in Azerbaijan where your parents had been evacuated during the war, you have expanded in Moscow and studied biology and genetics at the University Lomonosov. You mention what has been the identity for a Jewish girl in the fifties by Russian Communists: The character of your story " On 2 March this year "a lot like you. "I would have liked to be like everyone else, you say by referring to this situation. But there was something irreducible / in the attitude of others towards you /. Then I stopped wanting to be like everyone else. "Antisemitism has given you the desire not to be" like everyone else! And it's possible! Through reading and writing, you create an inner world and produce a therapeutic effect. Share with everyone how it would be possible not to be like everyone else: Is not this the freedom that comes from writing!
The little girl grew up. Collaborator when you started the Jewish musical theater, you were part now legendary show by Lev Dodin. You participated actively in the movement of dissidents and samizdat, with Brodsky and Solzhenitsyn. You wrote many plays and screenplays. Since the early 80s, you devote exclusively to literature, and had won numerous literary prizes in Italy, Russia, Germany and France. You're married to the sculptor Andrei Krassouline mother of two son, you spend a lot of multicultural education of children.
You manage a project, under the auspices of Unesco, which creates children's books, to tell them the world's cultural diversity and intercultural tolerance. You are also engaged in the fight against AIDS, and your freedom of thought leads you to say what is still a taboo for many: there are two sexes, woman and men, and even three, go up, for homosexuals rights which you agree. Similarly, in modern Russia, complex, tortured, and who difficult to learn out of totalitarianism, you are at the forefront of those who speak the language of human rights and democracy without fear of defying the authorities.
Feminist, Ulitskaya? Certainly not the stereotypical sense of the word and tell us how you, reader and admirer of Simone de Beauvoir, you hear: 1. Do not give in on women's rights to freedom and creativity, anywhere in the world 2. Carry this commitment with the finesse and art appropriate to each historical period and in each specific culture.
But since the writer is sensitive to women's freedom and the meeting of cultures that we celebrate, I give you this award Beauvoir 2011 with unfamiliar words that I- I found in a writer you know that you love, who loved women and that Beauvoir regarded as one of the few men who understand women: I want to quote Stendhal:
" ; Admission Women to perfect equality is the surest mark of civilization. It would double the intellectual powers of mankind, and his chances of happiness. "In Russia it gives this:
Потому что вы писатель который sensitive to female freedom and to meetings cultures , I wanted would you hand this award Simon de Beauvoir 2011 with little known words , one writer , which you course know , which loved women and which Beauvoir believed as one of rare men , who understood women : I quote Stendhal :
" Achievement women to perfect equality beat would this sign civilization . It doubled would mental force human kind , and it chances happiness . "
Can beat these words Stendhal sound first times on Russian language , on occasion your award Simon de Beauvoir , expensive Ludmila Ulitskaya : your e creativity favors e m implementation desire Stendhal .
is perhaps the first time that these words will be heard in Russian Stendhal, on the occasion of your Prize Simone de Beauvoir, dear Ludmila Ulitskaya: your work contributes to this goal is also ours.
With congratulations.
Сердечно поздравляю вас с наградой Симон де Бовуар 2011.
Julia Kristeva
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