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  • 2018 In December 2018 the Royal Irish Academy awarded the inaugural non-fiction prize to historian Breandán MacSuibhne for his book ‘The End of Outrage: Post-Famine Adjustment in Rural Ireland’ and he delivered his Michel Déon Lecture in Paris on 10 December 2019.
  • 2019 On 12 December 2019 the Académie française officially awarded their prize to fiction writer Stéphane Hoffmann for “Les Belles Ambitieuses”.
  • 2020 On 29 September 2020 the Royal Irish Academy awarded the 2020 prize to Conor O’Clery for his book The Shoemaker and his Daughter (Penguin Randomhouse).
  • 2021 The 2021 winner of the Académie française prize was Mr. François Cérésa.
  • 2022 The 2022 winner of the Prize was Sally Hayden for her book My Fourth Time, We Drowned (Harper Collins, 4th Estate). We welcomed Mr. Cérésa to the Royal Irish Academy on 20 April 2023 for a conversation with Mary Gallagher MRIA.
  • 2023 On 28 November 2023 the Académie française officially awarded their prize to Pierre Adrian for his extraordinary body of work. The RIA will welcome Mr Adrian to the Royal Irish Academy in 2024.
  • 2024 On 23 October, at an award ceremony in the Royal Irish Academy, Vona Groarke was announced as the winner of the 2024 Michel Déon Prize for non-fiction for her book ‘Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O’Hara’, (New York University Press). At this event the Academy welcomed 2023 Académie française Michel Déon Prize-winner, Pierre Adrian, who spoke in conversation with Professor Clíona Ní Ríordáin of the University of Notre Dame.