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Candide Preis (originally called Stadtschreiber Stipendium later Candide Preis) is the only one German-French Literary award named for its French satire Candide (first published in 1759 by Voltaire).Since 1995 it’s prize every year awarded by the Foundation Genshagen the Literary Association Minden the Villa Gillet (Lyon) and the Minister of Culture (France) to French and German contemporary authors.