The Prix Joseph Kessel is a prize in French language literature, given to "a book of a high literary value written in French".
The jury includes or has included among its members Tahar Ben Jelloun, Jean-Marie Drot, Michèle Kahn, Pierre Haski, Gilles Lapouge, Michel Le Bris, ÃÂrik Orsenna, Patrick Rambaud, Jean-Christophe Rufin, André Velter and Olivier Weber.