American Library in Paris Book Award
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 distinguished book of the year about France or the encounters between France and the United States."[1] 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."[1]
Honorees
2013
The shortlist was announced in September,[2] and the winner in December 2013.[1]
Winner: Fredrik Logevall, Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
Shortlist:
- Simon van Booy, The Illusion of Separateness
- Alex Danchev, Cezanne: A Life (about Paul Cézanne)
- Tom Reiss, The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
- Marilyn Yalom, How the French Invented Love
Jury: Diane Johnson, Adam Gopnik and Julian Barnes
2014
The shortlist was announced in July, and the winner in November 2014.[3]
Winner: Robert Harris, An Officer and a Spy
Shortlist:
- Jonathan Beckman, How to Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette, the Stolen Diamonds and the Scandal that Shook the French Throne
- Frederick Brown, The Embrace of Unreason: France 1914 - 1940
- Sean B. Carroll, Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize
- Philip Dwyer, Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power 1799 - 1815
- Francine Prose, Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932
Jury: Alice Kaplan, Sebastian Faulks, and Pierre Assouline
2015
The shortlist was announced in July 2015,[4] and the winner was announced 6 November.
Winner: Laura Auricchio, The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered
Shortlist:
- Nancy L. Green, The Other Americans in Paris: Businessmen, Countesses, Wayward Youth 1880-1941
- Richard C. Keller, Fatal Isolation: The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003
- Sue Roe, In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse, and Modernism in Paris, 1900-1910
- Ronald Rosbottom, When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation 1940-1944
Jury: Laura Furman, Lily Tuck, Fredrik Logevall
References
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