American Library in Paris Book Award

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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 toon meer 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." toon minder
Stages:
Alle, Winners (10), Shortlist (50), Longlist (5)
Jaren:
Alle, 2023 (10), 2022 (5), 2021 (5), 2020 (6), 2019 (6), 2018 (5), 2017 (6), 2016 (6), 2015 (5), 2014 (6), 2013 (5)

Winners 10

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

Shortlist 50

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

Longlist 5

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

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