Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger

The Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book Prize) is a French literary prize created in 1948. It is awarded yearly in two categories: Novel and Essay.

Prix du Meilleur livre étranger — Novel

*2006: Nicole Krauss, for "The History of Love" (as "L'Histoire de l'amour")
*2005: Colm Tóibín, for "The Master" (as "Le Maître")
*2004: Carlos Ruiz Zafón, for "The Shadow of the Wind" (as" L'Ombre du vent")
*2003: Peter Carey, for "True History of the Kelly Gang"
*2002: Orhan Pamuk, for "My Name is Red" (as "Mon nom est Rouge")
*2000: Philip Roth, for "American Pastoral" (as "Pastorale américaine")
*1998: Péter Nádas, for "A Book of Memories" (as "Le Livre des mémoires")
*1995: Jonathan Coe, for "What a carve up!" [ [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/profile/?p=auth22 Jonathan Coe ] ]
*1992: Jane Urquhart, for "The Whirlpool" [ [http://www.writersunion.ca/ww_profile.asp?mem=219&L=U The Writers' Union of Canada - Jane Urquhart ] ]
*1984: Salman Rushdie, for "Shame" [ [http://www.evene.fr/celebre/actualite/portrait-salman-rushdie-221.php PORTRAIT SALMAN RUSHDIE - Actualité Celebre - EVENE ] ]
*1983: Hector Bianciotti, for "L'amour n'est pas aimé" [ [http://www.evene.fr/celebre/biographie/hector-bianciotti-4301.php Hector Bianciotti - EVENE ] ]
*1973: John Hawkes, for "The Blood Oranges" [ISBN 0-8122-3341-7]
*1969: Gabriel García Márquez, for "One Hundred Years of Solitude" [ISBN 1-57806-784-7]
*1966: Peter Härtling, for "Niembsch"
*1965: John Updike, for "The Centaur" [ISBN 0-313-29904-8]
*1952: Miguel Ángel Asturias, for "El Señor Presidente"

Prix du Meilleur livre étranger — Essay

*2005: Mikhaïl Chichkine, for "Dans les pas de Byron et Tolstoï"
*2004: Azar Nafisi, for "Lire Lolita à Téhéran"
*2003: Hella S. Haasse, for "La Récalcitrante"

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