American Library in Paris Book Award was created in 2013 with a donation from the Florence Gould Foundation. It is awarded each November with a remunerative prize of $5,000 to "a work written originally in English that deepens and stimulates our understanding of France or the French.." The American Library in Paris "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 ."Honorees 2013 The shortlist was announced in September , and the winner in December 2013 .Winner : Fredrik Logevall , ' Shortlist:Simon van Booy, The Illusion of Separateness Alex Danchev, Cezanne: A Life Tom Reiss, '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.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, and the winner was announced 6 November 2015. 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 Logevall2016 The shortlist was announced in July, and the winner was announced on 3 November 2016.Winner : Ethan B. Katz, The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France Shortlist : Jury : Laura Auricchio, Robert Harris, Robert O. Paxton2017 The shortlist was announced in July, and the winner was announced on 3 November 2017 .Winner : David Bellos , The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les MisérablesShortlist : David McAninch, Duck Season: Eating, Drinking, and Other Misadventures in Gascony, France's Last Best Place Adam Gidwitz , The Inquisitor's Tale: or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog Ross King , Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies Nadja Spiegelman , I'm Supposed to Protect You From All This: A Memoir Susan Rubin Suleiman, The Némirovksy Question: The Life , Death, and Legacy of a Jewish Writer in Twentieth-Century France Jury : Adam Gopnik , Bruno Racine , Stacy Schiff 2018 The shortlist was announced in July, and the winner was announced on 8 November 2018 .Winner : Julian Jackson , A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle Shortlist Jury : Diane Johnson , David Bellos, and Pierre Assouline2019 The shortlist was announced in July, and the winner was announced on 7 November 2019 .Winner : Marc Weitzmann , Hate: The Rising Tide of Anti-Semitism in France Shortlist Edward Carey, Little: A Novel Andrew S. Curran, Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely David Elliott, Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc Stéphane Hénaut and Jeni Mitchell, A Bite-Sized History of France: Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment Julie Orringer, The Flight Portfolio: A Novel Jury : Alice Kaplan, Thomas Chatterton Williams , and Pamela Druckerman Coups de coeur In addition to the six shortlisted titles, the screening committee selected the following five books as worthy of special recognition:, The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba from Exile to Escape Peter Caddick-Adams, Sand and Steel: The D-Day Invasion and the Liberation of France , Impostors: Literary Hoaxes and Cultural Authenticity , The Age of Light: A Novel Christopher Tilghman, Thomas and Beal in the Midi
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