Book awards: Meilleur livre étrangerWorks (98)| 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 Kosiński | 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 Garcia Marquez | 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 Andrei Sinyavsky | Essai, 1974 | | One Way or Another 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 by Mario Praz | Essai, 1977 | | Memed, My Hawk by Yashar Kemal | Roman, 1978 | | A Plan for Escape 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 e il suo mondo by Benedetta Craveri | Essai, 1987 | | A Maggot by John Fowles | Roman, 1987 | | The Sleepwalker 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 Matvejević | 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: A Biography by Michael Holroyd | Essai, 1996 | | The Winshaw Legacy or 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 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 Estévez | Roman, 2000 | | The Royal Physician's Visit: A Novel by Per Olov 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 | | The Master: A Novel by Colm Tóibín | Roman, 2005 | | Montreux - Missolunghi - Astapowo by Michail Schischkin | Essai, 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 | | Poor People by William T. Vollmann | Essai, 2008 | | From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey by Pascal Khoo Thwe | Essai, 2009 | | This Life: A Novel by Karel Schoeman | Roman, 2009 | | Learning to Pray in the Age of Technique (Portuguese Literature Series) by Gonçalo M. Tavares | Roman, 2010 | | Must You Go?: My Life with Harold Pinter by Antonia Fraser | Essai, 2010 | | Oeuvres : Tome 2, Récits et essais by Marina T︠S︡vetaeva | Essais, 2011 | | Persecution by Alessandro Piperno | Roman, 2011 | | Congo: The Epic History of a People by David Van Reybrouck | Essai, 2012 | | The Retrospective by A. B. Yehoshua | Roman, 2012 | | The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst | Roman, 2013 | | A Brief Stop On the Road From Auschwitz by Göran Rosenberg | Essai, 2014 | | I Saw Her That Night by Drago Jancar | Roman, 2014 | | Atlas of an Anxious Man by Christoph Ransmayr | Essai, 2015 | | The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis | Roman, 2015 | | H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald | Roman, 2016 | | Les portes du néant by Samar Yazbek | Essai, 2016 | | East West Street: on the origins of genocide and crimes against humanity by Philippe Sands | Essai, 2017 | | The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen | Roman, 2017 |
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Award descriptionThe 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.
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