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 mais 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

Shortlist 50

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

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