Albanian
Basque
Bulgarian
Catalan
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Esperanto
Estonian
French
Finnish
German
Greek
Hindi
Hungarian
Icelandic
Indonesian
Irish
Italian
Latin
Latvian
Lithuanian
Norwegian
Piratical
Polish
Portuguese (Brazil)
Portuguese (Portugal)
Romanian
Slovak
Spanish
Swedish
Tagalog
Turkish
Welsh
Sign in / Join
|
English
|
Help
Home
Zeitgeist
Talk
Groups
Local
map
clouds
3,318,179 facts, woo hoo!
|
All Fields
---------------
Agent
Alternate titles
Awards and honors
Birthdate
Birthplace
Blurbers
Burial location
Canonical name
Canonical title
Connections
Country (for map)
Date
Date of death
Dedication
Description
Disambiguation notice
Education
Epigraph
First words
Gender
Important events
Important places
Inventory Source
Last words
Legacy Book Value
Legacy Category
Legacy Inventory Value
Legacy Library Size (Titles)
Legacy Size (volumes)
Legal name
Media reviews
Modern wording
Nationality
Notes
Occupations
Organizations
Original publication date
Original title
Other names
People/Characters
Place of death
Places of residence
Publisher Series
Publisher's editor
Quotations
Related movies
Relationships
Series
Short biography
Wording
---------------
Username
Common Knowledge
›
Book awards
›
Meilleur livre étranger
Book awards: Meilleur livre étranger
Book awards by cover
(show all 86 covers)
Works (86)
Titles
Order
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
by
James Hogg
Roman, 1948
Auto-da-Fé
by
Elias Canetti
Roman, 1949
The President
by
Miguel Ángel Asturias
Roman, 1950
Barabbas
by
Pär Lagerkvist
Roman, 1951
A Tale of Poor Lovers
by
Vasco Pratolini
Roman, 1952
All the King's Men
by
Robert Penn Warren
Roman, 1953
Zorba the Greek
by
Nikos Kazantzakis
Roman, 1954
Tomorrow and Yesterday
by
Heinrich Böll
Roman, 1955
The Lost Steps
by
Alejo Carpentier
Roman, 1956
The Man Without Qualities
by
Robert Musil
Roman, 1958
Balthazar
by
Lawrence Durrell
Roman, 1959
Justine
by
Lawrence Durrell
Roman, 1959
The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot
by
Angus Wilson
Roman, 1960
Snow Country
by
Yasunari Kawabata
Roman, 1961
The Tin Drum
by
Günter Grass
Roman, 1962
Children of Sanchez
by
Oscar Lewis
Roman, 1963
The Magician of Lublin
by
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Roman, 1964
Autobiography
by
John Cowper Powys
Essai, 1965
The Centaur
by
John Updike
Roman, 1965
The Painted Bird
by
Jerzy Kosinski
Essai, 1966
The Woman in the Dunes
by
Kōbō Abe
Roman, 1967
The First Circle
by
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Roman, 1968
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by
Gabriel García Márquez
Roman, 1969
Three Trapped Tigers
by
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Roman, 1970
Drifting cities
by
Stratis Tsirkas
Roman, 1971
The Lord of the Rings
by
J. R. R. Tolkien
Roman, 1972
The Blood Oranges
by
John Hawkes
Roman, 1973
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
by
Bruno Schulz
Roman, 1974
The Street of Crocodiles
by
Bruno Schulz
Roman, 1974
A Voice from the Chorus
by
Abram Terts
Essai, 1974
Todo modo
by
Leonardo Sciascia
Roman, 1975
The Angel of Darkness
by
Ernesto Sábato
Roman, 1976
Il quinto evangelio
by
Mario Pomilio
Roman, 1977
The Romantic Agony (Oxford Paperbacks)
by
Mario Praz
Essai, 1977
Memed, My Hawk
by
Yashar Kemal
Roman, 1978
A Plan for Escape (Palabra Sur Book)
by
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Roman, 1979
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
by
Mario Vargas Llosa
Roman, 1980
God's Grandeur and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
by
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Roman, 1980
Earthly Powers
by
Anthony Burgess
Roman, 1981
L'amour n'est pas aimé
by
Hector Bianciotti
Roman, 1982
Il Malaparte illustrato
by
Giordano Bruno Guerri
Roman, 1983
Life and Fate
by
Vasily Grossman
Roman, 1984
Shame
by
Salman Rushdie
Roman, 1985
Milena
by
Margarete Buber-Neumann
Essai, 1986
Palinuro of Mexico
by
Fernando del Paso
Roman, 1986
Madame Du Deffand and Her World
by
Benedetta Craveri
Essai, 1987
A Maggot
by
John Fowles
Roman, 1987
De slaapwandelaar
by
Margarita Karapanou
Roman, 1988
Pushkin House
by
Andrei Bitov
Roman, 1989
The Czar's Madman
by
Jaan Kross
Roman, 1990
Danube
by
Claudio Magris
Essai, 1990
La saga de Youza
by
Youozas Baltouchis
Roman, 1991
The Whirlpool
by
Jane Urquhart
Roman, 1992
Mediterranean: A Cultural Landscape
by
Predrag Matvejevic
Essai, 1993
The Things They Carried
by
Tim O'Brien
Roman, 1993
Ever After
by
Graham Swift
Roman, 1994
Theory of War
by
Joan Brady
Roman, 1995
Lytton Strachey
by
Michael Holroyd
Essai, 1996
What a Carve Up!
by
Jonathan Coe
Roman, 1996
The Inquisitors' Manual
by
António Lobo Antunes
Roman, 1997
Il cardillo addolorato
by
Anna Maria Ortese
Roman, 1998
A Light Comedy
by
Eduardo Mendoza
Roman, 1998
Pushkin's Button
by
Serena Vitale
Essai, 1998
Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832
by
Stella Tillyard
Essai, 1999
A Book of Memories
by
Péter Nádas
Roman, 1999
The Rings of Saturn
by
W. G. Sebald
Essai, 1999
American pastoral
by
Philip Roth
Roman, 2000
Bartleby & Co.
by
Enrique Vila-Matas
Essai, 2000
Thine is the Kingdom
by
Abilio Estevez
Roman, 2000
The Royal Physician's Visit: A Novel
by
P. O. Enquist
Roman, 2001
My Name is Red
by
Orhan Pamuk
Roman, 2002
Mevrouw Bentinck : Onverenigbaarheid van karakter & De groten der aarde
by
Hella S. Haasse
Essai, 2003
True History of the Kelly Gang
by
Peter Carey
Roman, 2003
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by
Azar Nafisi
Essai, 2004
The Shadow of the Wind
by
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Roman, 2004
Dans les pas de Byron et Tolstoï : Du lac Léman à l'Oberland bernois
by
Mikhaïl Chichkine
Essai, 2005
The Master
by
Colm Tóibín
Roman, 2005
Her Husband: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath--A Marriage
by
Diane Middlebrook
Essai, 2006
The History of Love
by
Nicole Krauss
Roman, 2006
Searching for John Ford
by
Joseph McBride
Roman, 2007
Melnitz
by
Charles Lewinsky
Roman, 2008
Poor People
by
William T. Vollmann
Essai, 2008
From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey
by
Pascal Khoo Thwe
Essai, 2009
Hierdie lewe
by
Karel Schoeman
Roman, 2009
Aprender a rezar na era da técnica
by
Gonçalo M. Tavares
Roman, 2010
Must You Go?: My Life with Harold Pinter
by
Antonia Fraser
Essai, 2010
(
show numbers
)
Related tags
1001
(372)
20th century
(1,368)
American literature
(360)
Barcelona
(655)
biography
(624)
books
(603)
British
(335)
classic
(971)
classics
(620)
epic
(355)
fantasy
(5,039)
fiction
(15,880)
historical fiction
(932)
history
(685)
Iran
(778)
Latin America
(457)
latin american literature
(368)
literature
(2,590)
Lord of the Rings
(530)
magical realism
(1,467)
memoir
(1,205)
Middle Earth
(614)
mystery
(812)
Nobel Prize
(545)
non-fiction
(1,107)
novel
(3,306)
own
(586)
paperback
(366)
politics
(379)
read
(1,430)
Roman
(769)
Spain
(727)
Spanish
(605)
tbr
(664)
Tolkien
(1,001)
translation
(498)
unread
(1,068)
war
(463)
wwii
(431)
Recommendations
The Radetzky March
by
Joseph Roth
Oscar and Lucinda
by
Peter Carey
The Death of Virgil
by
Hermann Broch
Love in The Time of Cholera
by
Gabriel García Márquez
The Confusions of Young Törless
by
Robert Musil
Ferdydurke
by
Witold Gombrowicz
The Emigrants
by
W. G. Sebald
Hopscotch
by
Julio Cortázar
The Magic Mountain
by
Thomas Mann
Buddenbrooks
by
Thomas Mann
Berlin Alexanderplatz
by
Alfred Döblin
The Sleepwalkers
by
Hermann Broch
Mountolive
by
Lawrence Durrell
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by
Milan Kundera
The Black Book
by
Orhan Pamuk
Book awards authors (84)
Kōbō Abe
António Lobo Antunes
Miguel Ángel Asturias
Youozas Baltouchis
Hector Bianciotti
Andrei Bitov
Heinrich Böll
Joan Brady
Margarete Buber-Neumann
Anthony Burgess
Elias Canetti
Peter Carey
Alejo Carpentier
Jonathan Coe
Benedetta Craveri
Lawrence Durrell
P. O. Enquist
Abilio Estevez
John Fowles
Antonia Fraser
Günter Grass
Vasily Grossman
Giordano Bruno Guerri
Hella S. Haasse
John Hawkes
James Hogg
Michael Holroyd
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margarita Karapanou
Yasunari Kawabata
Nikos Kazantzakis
Jerzy Kosinski
Nicole Krauss
Jaan Kross
Pär Lagerkvist
Charles Lewinsky
Oscar Lewis
Mario Vargas Llosa
Claudio Magris
Gabriel García Márquez
Predrag Matvejevic
Joseph McBride
Eduardo Mendoza
Diane Middlebrook
Robert Musil
Péter Nádas
Azar Nafisi
Tim O'Brien
Anna Maria Ortese
Orhan Pamuk
Fernando del Paso
Mario Pomilio
John Cowper Powys
Vasco Pratolini
Mario Praz
Philip Roth
Salman Rushdie
Ernesto Sábato
Karel Schoeman
Bruno Schulz
Leonardo Sciascia
W. G. Sebald
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Graham Swift
Pascal Khoo Thwe
Stella Tillyard
Colm Tóibín
J. R. R. Tolkien
Stratis Tsirkas
John Updike
Jane Urquhart
Enrique Vila-Matas
Serena Vitale
William T. Vollmann
Robert Penn Warren
Angus Wilson
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Mikhail Shishkin
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Yaşar Kemal
Gonçalo M. Tavares
Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky
Works (Title/Author/ISBN)
Award description
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 for books translated in to French.
Related book awards
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
Guardian 1000
Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher
New York Times bestseller
New York Times Best Books of the Year
501 Must-Read Books
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Winner
Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time
Unsere Besten – Die Lieblingsbücher der Deutschen
Daniel S. Burt's Novel 100
(show all 119 items)
Waterstones Books of the Century
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Shortlist
The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time
Time's All-Time 100 Novels selection
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist
The Telegraph's 100 novels everyone should read
Århundrets bibliotek
Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List
Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year
SWR-Bestenliste
Rómulo Gallegos
Booker Prize Shortlist
The Modern Library: the 200 best novels in English since 1950
Varlik
ALA Notable Books for Adults
Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century
Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay Nominee
Pulitzer Prize
The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library
Viareggio
PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize
Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Horror: The 100 Best Books
The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books
BBC's Big Read
Lectrices de Elle
Magnesia Litera
Amazon.com Best Books
ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound
Borders Original Voices
ISFDB Top 100 Books - Popular List
Napoli
The List 100 Best Scottish Books
Whitcoulls top 100, 2010
David Pringle's Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels
Whitbread Book of the Year
Whitbread
Edward Lewis Wallant Award
Today Show Book Club selection
Newsweek 50 Books for Our Times
Globe and Mail Top 100 Book
A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan
125 Great Southern Books
Oxford American Best Southern Books of All Time
PEN Center USA Literary Award
The Morning News Tournament of Books
Orange Prize Shortlist
Fantasy: The 100 Best Books
Fawcett Society Book Prize
Martinus Nijhoff
Locus 1987 Poll, All-Time Best Fantasy Novel
Locus 1975 Poll, All-Time Best Novel
International Fantasy Award
BILBY
Whitcoulls top 100, 2008
Prometheus Award
National Book Award
HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century
Longman/History Today Book of the Year
The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels: The Reader's List
Image: 100 Writers of Faith
Locus 1998 Poll, All-Time Best Fantasy Novel Before 1990
Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger
Kiriyama Prize
thisrecording.com 100 Greatest Science Fiction or Fantasy Novels of All Time
Waterstones The Nation's Favourite Children's Books
Augustpriset
Barry Award
Waterstones top 25 books of the last 25 years
Prix des libraires du Québec
Lecteurs du Livre de Poche
Gumshoe Award nominee
Libraires du Québec
Oprah's Book Club selection
NPR Top 100 Killer Thrillers
Book Sense Book of the Year Honor Book
Frederic W. Ness Book Award
Book Sense Book of the Year
National Book Critics Circle Award finalist
Pulitzer Prize finalist
Prix du Meilleur livre étranger
Village Voice 25 Favorite Books
New York Times: Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years
ALA Best Books for Young Adults
NEA Big Read
ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults
Heartland Prize
New York Public Library's Books of the Century
The Globe & Mail 50 Greatest Books
Colin Roderick Award
Queensland Premier's Award for Fiction
The Age Book of the Year Award
Commonwealth Writers' Prize
Christian Science Monitor Best Book
Yorkshire Post Book Award
John Florio Prize for Italian Translation
Guardian Essential Library
Bagutta
Booker Prize
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
Lambda Literary Award
ALA Stonewall Book Award Winner
Yomiuri
Der Kanon: Romane
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Winner
Mondello
National Book Award finalist
The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels: The Board's List
Related series
アレクサンドリア四重奏
Danziger Trilogie
The Lord of the Rings
ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΙΝΟ ΚΟΥΑΡΤΕΤΟ
El cuarteto de Alejandría
Alexandria Quartet
Trilogia americana
Der Herr der Ringe
The American Trilogy
In de Ban van de Ring
(show all 22 items)
Tierra Media
Le Seigneur des Anneaux
O Senhor dos Anéis
Memed-Zyklus
Le Quatuor d'Alexandrie
ゼーバルト・コレクション
Danzig Trilogy
The Man Without Qualities
Writers from the Other Europe
Collected Works of Jaan Kross
Holroyd's Lytton Strachey
El señor de los anillos
Related publisher series
Keltainen kirjasto
Delfinserien
New York Review Books Classics
A tot vent
Writers from the Other Europe
Everyman's Library New Series
Gli Elefanti Garzanti
Atlas - De twintigste eeuw
Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
Universale Economica Feltrinelli
(show all 18 items)
Literaire Reuzenpocket
Ave Fénix Bolsillo
Keltainen pokkari
Limited Editions Club
角川文庫
Fabula Adelphi
新潮文庫
Letras Hispánicas
Related people/characters
Miquel Moliner
Beatriz Aguilar
Daniel Sempere
José Arcadio Buendía
Samwise Gamgee
Oskar Matzerath
Nuria Monfort
Frodo Baggins
Jacinta Coronado
Gandalf
(show all 631 items)
Jorge Aldaya
Fernando Ramos
Legolas
Penelope Aldaya
Galadriel
Bilbo Baggins
Francisco Javier Fumero
Peter Kien
Julian Carax
Clara Barcelo
Antoni Fortuny
Meriadoc Brandybuck
Úrsula Iguarán
José Arcadio
Fermin Romero de Torres
Francisco Franco
Lain Coubert
Gustavo Barcelo
Peregrin Took
Mordecai Mortiz
Sophie Carax
David Singer
Aureliano Buendía
Melquíades
Tomas Aguilar
Remedios Moscote
Amaranta
Arcadio
Aureliano José
Dorothy Winshaw
Santa Sofía de la Piedad
Iskander Harappa
Raza Hyder
Golde Meijer
Janki
Salomon Meijer
Issac Moritz
Mr. Sempere
Chanele
Bernard Mortiz
Tim O'Brien
Éowyn
Théoden
Master Osman
Kiowa
Jimmy Cross
Aragorn
Rat Kiley
Norman Bowker
Hasan
Shevket
Butterfly
Olive
Gimli
Stork
Elegant Effendi
Orhan
Shekure
Enishte Effendi
Henry Dobbins
Gollum
Alma Singer
Zvi Litvinoff
Alma Mereminksi
Leopold Gurksy
Mitchell Sanders
Nathan Zuckerman
Sauron
Charlotte Singer
Elendil
Durin
Elfhelm
Damrod
Ecthelion
Derufin
Déorwine
Varda Elentári
Déor
Eärendil
Déagol
Rose "Rosie" Gardner
Duinhir
Duilin
Dori
Dwalin
Tolman "Young Tom" Cotton
Dior
Bowman "Nick" Cotton
Eärnur
Dáin II Ironfoot
Daeron
Dúnhere
Dervorin
Fang
Finglas
Finduilas
Fimbrethil
Fengel
Bill Ferny
Felaróf
Findegil
Finrod Felagund
Forlong the Fat
Forgoil
Folcwine
Folca
Firefoot
Fladrif
Fëanor
Fatty Lumpkin
Eorl
Éothain
Éomund
Éomer
Elrohir
Elwing
Erkenbrand
Erestor
Blanco Fallohide
Carl "Nibs" Cotton
Marcho Fallohide
Fastred
Fangorn
Elladan