The prize, which has a value of €25,000, has been awarded in support of the Foundation's work on the complete works of Voltaire.

The annual prize was created in 2007 to reward individuals or institutions which promote French as an international language.

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The Voltaire Foundation

Académie Française

The Modern Language Association of America has awarded its twentieth annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies to Frédérique Aït-Touati, of the University of Oxford, Saint John’s College, for her book Fictions of the Cosmos: Science and Literature in the Seventeenth Century, published by the University of Chicago Press. The prize is awarded annually for an outstanding scholarly work that is written by a member of the association and that involves at least two literatures.

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