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 näytä lisää 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." näytä vähemmän
Stages:
Kaikki, Winners (10), Shortlist (50), Longlist (5)
Vuodet:
Kaikki, 2023 (10), 2022 (5), 2021 (5), 2020 (6), 2019 (6), 2018 (5), 2017 (6), 2016 (6), 2015 (5), 2014 (6), 2013 (5)

Winners 10

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France: An Adventure History (tekijä: Graham Robb)2022
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture (tekijä: Sudhir Hazareesingh)2021
The Plateau (tekijä: Maggie Paxson)2020
Hate: the rising tide of anti-semitism in France (and what It means for us) (tekijä: Marc Weitzmann)2019
De Gaulle (tekijä: Julian Jackson)2018
The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables (tekijä: David Bellos)2017
The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France (tekijä: Ethan B. Katz)2016
The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered (tekijä: Laura Auricchio)2015
Upseeri ja vakooja (tekijä: Robert Harris)2014
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam (tekijä: Fredrik Logevall)2013

Shortlist 50

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Joan: A Novel of Joan of Arc (tekijä: Katherine J. Chen)2023
Americans in Paris : artists working in postwar France, 1946-1962 (tekijä: Lynn Gumpert)2023
France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain (tekijä: Julian Jackson)2023
#You Know You're Black in France When: The Fact of Everyday Antiblackness (tekijä: Trica Keaton)2023
The Curse of the Marquis de Sade: A Notorious Scoundrel, a Mythical Manuscript, and the Biggest Scandal in Literary History (tekijä: Joel Warner)2023
The Caretakers (tekijä: Amanda Bestor-Siegal)2022
City of Incurable Women (tekijä: Maud Casey)2022
In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism (tekijä: J. P. Daughton)2022
The French Mind: 400 Years of Romance, Revolution and Renewal (tekijä: Peter Watson)2022
Leonora in the Morning Light (tekijä: Michaela Carter)2021
Letters to Camondo (tekijä: Edmund De Waal)2021
An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries (tekijä: Emma Rothschild)2021
Perestroika in Paris (tekijä: Jane Smiley)2021
Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking (tekijä: Bill Buford)2020
The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum (tekijä: James Gardner)2020
The Vexations (tekijä: Caitlin Horrocks)2020
Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from Nineteenth-Century France (tekijä: Rachel Mesch)2020
The Betrayal of the Duchess: The Scandal That Unmade the Bourbon Monarchy and Made France Modern (tekijä: Maurice Samuels)2020
Little (tekijä: Edward Carey)2019
Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely (tekijä: Andrew S. Curran)2019
Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc (tekijä: David Elliott)2019
A Bite-Sized History of France: Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment (tekijä: Stéphane Hénaut)2019
The Flight Portfolio (tekijä: Julie Orringer)2019
The Great Nadar: The Man Behind the Camera (tekijä: Adam Begley)2018
Caesar's Footprints: A Cultural Excursion to Ancient France: Journeys Through Roman Gaul (tekijä: Bijan Omrani)2018
Never Anyone But You (tekijä: Rupert Thomson)2018
Proust's Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siècle Paris (tekijä: Caroline Weber)2018
The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog (tekijä: Adam Gidwitz)2017
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies (tekijä: Ross King)2017
Duck Season (tekijä: David McAninch)2017
I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This: A Memoir (tekijä: Nadja Spiegelman)2017
The Némirovsky Question: The Life, Death, and Legacy of a Jewish Writer in Twentieth-Century France (tekijä: Susan Rubin Suleiman)2017
A Country Road, A Tree (tekijä: Jo Baker)2016
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 (tekijä: Sarah Bakewell)2016
The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed (tekijä: Julie Barlow)2016
Paris at War: 1939-1944 (tekijä: David Drake)2016
The Other Paris (tekijä: Lucy Sante)2016
The Other Americans in Paris: Businessmen, Countesses, Wayward Youth, 1880-1941 (tekijä: Nancy L. Green)2015
Fatal Isolation: The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003 (tekijä: Richard C. Keller)2015
In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art (tekijä: Sue Roe)2015
When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944 (tekijä: Ronald C. Rosbottom)2015
How to Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette and the Diamond Necklace Affair (tekijä: Jonathan Beckman)2014
The Embrace of Unreason: France, 1914-1940 (tekijä: Frederick Brown)2014
Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize (tekijä: Sean B. Carroll)2014
Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power (tekijä: Philip Dwyer)2014
Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932: A Novel (tekijä: Francine Prose)2014
Cezanne: A Life (tekijä: Alex Danchev)2013
The Black Count: Napoleon's Rival and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas (tekijä: Tom Reiss)2013
The Illusion of Separateness (tekijä: Simon Van Booy)2013
How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance (tekijä: Marilyn Yalom)2013

Longlist 5

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Paris and Her Cathedrals (tekijä: R. Howard Bloch)2023
Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris (tekijä: Mark Braude)2023
Barnave: The Revolutionary who Lost his Head for Marie Antoinette (tekijä: John Hardman)2023
The French Resistance and its Legacy (tekijä: Rod Kedward)2023
Unmaking Sex: The Gender Outlaws of Nineteenth-Century France (tekijä: Anne E. Linton)2023

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