Aurélie Filippetti, Minister of Culture and Communication, congratulates François Morel, winner of the 2013 Raymond Devos French Language Award.
Created in 2003 at the initiative of Raymond Devos, this award recognizes each year “an artist whose work or action contributes to the advancement of the French language, its influence and its promotion”. He generally distinguishes a humorist whose writing and interpretation skills are part of the posterity of the great actor, who died in 2006. Besides Fellag, its first laureate, it has been awarded in the last three years to François Rollin (2010), Vincent Roca (2011) and Guillaume Gallienne (2012).
Groom in the television series Palace of Jean-Michel Ribes, François Morel joins the troupe of Jérôme Deschamps and Macha Makeïeff, with whom he participates in the television series Les Deschiens. After having been author and singer of his show Private collection, he writes for many singers like Juliette, Maurane or Juliette Gréco. Since 2009, he has been writing a weekly column on France Inter. He has written and directed several shows: The Sunday Clothes, Many things, Private collection, Evening, lions… He currently performs at the Théâtre La Pépinière in Paris, The end of the world is for Sunday. He has just published Raymond Devos, the craziest reason (Editions Le Cherche Midi).
Raymond Devos Award will be delivered on behalf of the Minister by Xavier North, Delegate General for the French Language and Languages of France, on Sunday, June 2 at 12:00 pm at the “Festival du mot” in La Charité-sur-Loire.
The ninth edition of the Festival du Mot » (festivaldumot.fr) will host from May 29 to June 2, 2013, a large number of artists (writers, singers, comedians, etc. ) that illustrate in their own way the extraordinary vitality of our language.