Jan Michalski Prize for Literature (French: Prix Jan Michalski) is a Swiss literary prize for any work of fiction or non-fiction published anywhere in the world in any language.
The jury is multicultural and multilingual in composition.
The award was launched October 2009[1] and the first winner was announced November 2010.
The authors of finalists are invited for a three-month period of residence in the Maison de l'écriture.
[3] The prize was created by the Jan Michalski Foundation for Writing and Literature (Fondation Jan Michalski pour l’Ecriture et la Littérature), founded in 2004 at the initiative of Vera Michalski-Hoffmann in memory of her husband Jan Michalski.