American Library in Paris Book Award

Given by American Library in Paris

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The American Library in Paris Book Award (est. 2010) is a book award established by the American Library in Paris. It is awarded each November with a remunerative prize of $5,000 for the "most mostrar más distinguished book of the year about France or the encounters between France and the United States." The first award was given in 2013. The library "was founded and originally run by American expatriates in Paris in 1920, with books that had been sent by American libraries to soldiers fighting in World War I." mostrar menos
Stages:
Todos, Winners (10), Shortlist (50), Longlist (5)
Years:
Todos, 2023 (10), 2022 (5), 2021 (5), 2020 (6), 2019 (6), 2018 (5), 2017 (6), 2016 (6), 2015 (5), 2014 (6), 2013 (5)

Winners 10

ObraAño
France: An Adventure History por Graham Robb2022
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture por Sudhir Hazareesingh2021
The Plateau por Maggie Paxson2020
Hate: the rising tide of anti-semitism in France (and what It means for us) por Marc Weitzmann2019
De Gaulle por Julian Jackson2018
The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables por David Bellos2017
The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France por Ethan B. Katz2016
The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered por Laura Auricchio2015
An Officer and a Spy por Robert Harris2014
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam por Fredrik Logevall2013

Shortlist 50

ObraAño
Juana de Arco por Katherine J. Chen2023
Americans in Paris : artists working in postwar France, 1946-1962 por Lynn Gumpert2023
France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain por Julian Jackson2023
#You Know You're Black in France When: The Fact of Everyday Antiblackness por Trica Keaton2023
The Curse of the Marquis de Sade: A Notorious Scoundrel, a Mythical Manuscript, and the Biggest Scandal in Literary History por Joel Warner2023
The Caretakers por Amanda Bestor-Siegal2022
City of Incurable Women por Maud Casey2022
In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism por J. P. Daughton2022
The French Mind: 400 Years of Romance, Revolution and Renewal por Peter Watson2022
Leonora in the Morning Light por Michaela Carter2021
Letters to Camondo por Edmund De Waal2021
An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries por Emma Rothschild2021
Perestroika in Paris por Jane Smiley2021
Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking por Bill Buford2020
The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum por James Gardner2020
The Vexations por Caitlin Horrocks2020
Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from Nineteenth-Century France por Rachel Mesch2020
The Betrayal of the Duchess: The Scandal That Unmade the Bourbon Monarchy and Made France Modern por Maurice Samuels2020
Little por Edward Carey2019
Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely por Andrew S. Curran2019
Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc por David Elliott2019
A Bite-Sized History of France: Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment por Stéphane Hénaut2019
The Flight Portfolio por Julie Orringer2019
The Great Nadar: The Man Behind the Camera por Adam Begley2018
Caesar's Footprints: A Cultural Excursion to Ancient France: Journeys Through Roman Gaul por Bijan Omrani2018
Never Anyone But You por Rupert Thomson2018
Proust's Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siècle Paris por Caroline Weber2018
The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog por Adam Gidwitz2017
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies por Ross King2017
Duck Season por David McAninch2017
I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This: A Memoir por Nadja Spiegelman2017
The Némirovsky Question: The Life, Death, and Legacy of a Jewish Writer in Twentieth-Century France por Susan Rubin Suleiman2017
A Country Road, A Tree por Jo Baker2016
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others por Sarah Bakewell2016
The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed por Julie Barlow2016
Paris at War: 1939-1944 por David Drake2016
The Other Paris por Lucy Sante2016
The Other Americans in Paris: Businessmen, Countesses, Wayward Youth, 1880-1941 por Nancy L. Green2015
Fatal Isolation: The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003 por Richard C. Keller2015
In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art por Sue Roe2015
When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944 por Ronald C. Rosbottom2015
How to Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette and the Diamond Necklace Affair por Jonathan Beckman2014
The Embrace of Unreason: France, 1914-1940 por Frederick Brown2014
Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize por Sean B. Carroll2014
Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power por Philip Dwyer2014
Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932: A Novel por Francine Prose2014
Cezanne: A Life por Alex Danchev2013
El conde negro : gloria, revolución, traición y el verdadero conde de Montecristo por Tom Reiss2013
The Illusion of Separateness por Simon Van Booy2013
How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance por Marilyn Yalom2013

Longlist 5

ObraAño
Paris and Her Cathedrals por R. Howard Bloch2023
Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris por Mark Braude2023
Barnave: The Revolutionary who Lost his Head for Marie Antoinette por John Hardman2023
The French Resistance and its Legacy por Rod Kedward2023
Unmaking Sex: The Gender Outlaws of Nineteenth-Century France por Anne E. Linton2023

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