Prix Laure Bataillon
The Prix Laure Bataillon is a French literary award established in 1986 by the cities of Nantes and Saint-Nazaire to be given for the best work of fiction translated each year.[1] It is awarded jointly to a foreign writer and their French language translator. [2][3][4]
History[]
Created in 1986 to recognise the "best work of fiction translated into French each year," the award was renamed for the Hispanic translator and literary critic, , translator of Julio Cortázar and a 1988 laureate of the prize, following her death in 1990.[5] The International Writers and Translators Residence at Saint Nazaire has been the administrator of the prize since 1993. In 2003, another prize, the Laure-Bataillon Classic Prize (Prix Laure Bataillon Classique) — given to the translator of a deceased author or a classic work of literature — was introduced and has been awarded alongside the original Laure-Bataillon Prize since 2004.[6] In 2017, the Prix Classique was renamed the Prix Bernard Hoepffner.
Winners of the Prix Laure-Bataillon[]
The past winners of the Prix Laure-Bataillon include Nobel Prize laureates, Derek Walcott, Mo Yan, and Olga Tokarczuk.[7]
Year | Author | Title | Original Language | Translator | Publisher |
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1986 | Hugo Claus | Le Chagrin des Belges | Dutch | Julliard | |
1987 | Giorgio Manganelli | Amour | Italian | Denoël | |
1988 | Juan José Saer | L'Ancêtre | Spanish | Laure Bataillon | Flammarion |
1989 | Le Récital suivi de La Sonate Waldstein | German | Fayard | ||
1990 | Bohumil Hrabal | Vends maison où je ne veux plus vivre | Czech | Laffont | |
1991 | Bo Carpelan | Axel | Swedish | et | Gallimard |
1992 | Josef Hiršal | Bohème, bohème | Czech | Albin Michel | |
1993 | Gert Jonke | L'École du virtuose | German | et | |
1994 | John Updike | Rabbit en paix | English | Gallimard | |
1995 | Hans Magnus Enzensberger | Requiem pour une femme romantique | German | Gallimard | |
1996 | L'Acrobate | Italian | et | ||
1997 | Bernhard Schlink | Le Liseur | German | Gallimard | |
1998 | Sergio Ramírez | Le Bal des masques | Spanish | Claude Fell | |
1999 | W.G. Sebald | Les Émigrants | German | Patrick Charbonneau | Actes Sud |
2000 | Mo Yan | The Republic of Wine | Chinese | et | Seuil |
2001 | Erri De Luca | Trois chevaux | Italian | Gallimard | |
2002 | Derek Walcott | Une autre vie | English | Gallimard | |
2004 | Le Miel des anges | Modern Greek | Albin Michel | ||
2005 | Gamal Ghitany | Le Livre des illuminations | Arabic | Seuil | |
2006 | Russell Banks | The Darling | English | Actes Sud | |
2007 | Cynthia Ozick | Les Papiers de Puttermesser | English | Agnès Desarthe | L'Olivier |
2008 | Éloges des voyages insensés | Russian | Hélène Châtelain | ||
2009 | Duong Thu Huong | Au zénith | Vietnamese | ||
2010 | Julián Ríos | Le Pont de l'Alma | Spanish | et | |
2011 | Reinhard Jirgl | Renégat, roman du temps nerveux | German | ||
2012 | Peter Esterhazy | Pas question d'art | Hungarian | Gallimard | |
2013 | Une lampe entre les dents, chronique athénienne | Modern Greek | Actes Sud | ||
2014 | Nii Ayikwei Parkes | Notre quelque part | English | ||
2015 | Rick Bass | Toute la terre qui nous possède | English | Bourgois | |
2016 | Gabriel Josipovici | Infini : L'histoire d'un moment | English | Quidam | |
2017 | José Carlos Llop | Solstice | Spanish | Jacqueline Chambon | |
2018 | Allan Moore | Jerusalem | English | Christophe Claro | Inculte |
2019 | Olga Tokarczuk | Les livres de Jacob | Polish | Noir sur blanc |
Winners of the Prix Laure-Bataillon Classique[]
Year | Author | Title | Original Language | Translator | Publisher |
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2003 | Ovid | Les Écrits érotiques | Latin | Actes Sud | |
2004 | Thomas Browne | Pseudodoxia Epidemica | English | ||
2005 | Daniil Harms | Œuvres en prose et en vers | Russian | ||
2006 | Giacomo Leopardi | Zibaldone | Italian | ||
2007 | Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa | Le Guépard | Italian | Seuil | |
2008 | Lucio Victorio Mansilla | Une excursion au pays des Ranqueles | Spanish | ||
2009 | Miguel de Cervantes | Œuvres complètes | Spanish | Le Livre de Poche | |
2010 | Robert Walser | Au bureau et Petite Prose | German | ||
2011 | Ingeborg Bachmann | La Trentième Heure | German | Seuil | |
2012 | Isaac Babel | Œuvres complètes | Russian | ||
2014 | Franz Michael Felder | Scènes de ma vie | German | ||
2015 | Ken Kesey | Et quelquefois j'ai comme une grande idée | English | Monsieur Toussaint Louverture | |
2016 | Bruno Schulz | Récits du treizième mois | Polish | Alain Van Crugten | L'Âge d'homme |
2017 | Ovid | Les métamorphoses | Latin | l'Ogre | |
2018 | Laurence Sterne | Voyage sentimental | English | Tristram | |
2019 | Virgil | Les Géorgiques de Virgile | Latin | Frédéric Boyer | Gallimard |
References[]
- ^ http://www.meetingsaintnazaire.com%7CMaison des Ecrivains and Translators of Saint-Nazaire
- ^ Le Prix Laure Bataillon
- ^ Prix Laure Bataillon, Centre national du livre
- ^ Prix littéraire
- ^ http://www.idref.fr/02690893X
- ^ http://www.meetingsaintnazaire.com/-LE-PRIX-LAURE-BATAILLON-.html
- ^ http://www.meetingsaintnazaire.com/-LES-LAUREATS-207-.html
- Awards established in 1986
- French fiction awards