Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
The Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book Prize) is a French literary prize created in 1948. It is awarded yearly in two categories: Novel and Essay for books translated in to French.
Prix du Meilleur livre étranger — Novel
- 2010: Gonçalo M. Tavares, for "Aprender a Rezar na Era da Técnica" (Learning to Pray in the Age of Technique), as Apprendre à prier à l’ère de la technique, Viviane Hamy[1]
- 2009: Karel Schoeman for "Hierdie Lewe" (This Life), as "Cette Vie", Phébus, Paris
- 2008: Charles Lewinsky, for Melnitz
- 2007: Joseph McBride, for Searching for John Ford (as À la recherche de John Ford)
- 2006: Nicole Krauss, for The History of Love (as L'Histoire de l'amour)
- 2005: Colm Tóibín, for The Master (as Le Maître)
- 2004: Carlos Ruiz Zafón, for The Shadow of the Wind (as L'Ombre du vent)
- 2003: Peter Carey, for True History of the Kelly Gang
- 2002: Orhan Pamuk, for My Name is Red (as Mon nom est Rouge)
- 2000: Philip Roth, for American Pastoral (as Pastorale américaine)
- 1998: Péter Nádas, for A Book of Memories (as Le Livre des mémoires)
- 1995: Jonathan Coe, for What a Carve Up! [2]
- 1995: Joan Brady for Theory of War (as L’Enfant Loué)[3]
- 1992: Jane Urquhart, for The Whirlpool[4]
- 1990: Tim O'Brien, for The Things They Carried
- 1984: Salman Rushdie, for Shame[5]
- 1983: Hector Bianciotti, for L'amour n'est pas aimé[6]
- 1973: John Hawkes, for The Blood Oranges[7]
- 1969: Gabriel García Márquez, for One Hundred Years of Solitude [8]
- 1966: Peter Härtling, for Niembsch
- 1965: John Updike, for The Centaur [9]
- 1956: Alejo Carpentier, for Los pasos perdidos
- 1952: Miguel Ángel Asturias, for El Señor Presidente
Prix du Meilleur livre étranger — Essay
References
- ^ Le prix du Meilleur livre étranger à Gonçalo M. Tavares : le courrier des récompenses littéraires (in french)
- ^ Jonathan Coe
- ^ http://www.joanbrady.co.uk/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=93 A very French ceremony: Winning the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étrange
- ^ The Writers' Union of Canada - Jane Urquhart
- ^ PORTRAIT SALMAN RUSHDIE - Actualité Celebre - EVENE
- ^ Hector Bianciotti - EVENE
- ^ ISBN 0-8122-3341-7
- ^ ISBN 1-57806-784-7
- ^ ISBN 0-313-29904-8