Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger

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The Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger is a prestigious French literary prize awarded annually to outstanding foreign-language books translated into French.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf French literary award
book award
alsoKnownAs Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
surface form: Prize for the Best Foreign Book
awardFor foreign-language books translated into French
literary merit
awardGivenTo French translator of the work
author of the original work
awardingBodyType booksellers association
country France
eligibility foreign authors
works originally written in a foreign language
field literary translation
frequency annual
genre literature
hasAwardType foreign literature prize
hasCategory essay
novel
inception 1948
languageOfAwardedEdition French
location Paris
notableLaureate Gabriel García Márquez
Mario Vargas Llosa
Orhan Pamuk
Philip Roth
Umberto Eco
originalLanguage any non-French language
scope international
selectionCriterion quality of the French translation
quality of the work
selectionProcess jury deliberation
significance one of the major French prizes for foreign literature
sponsor Syndicat de la Librairie Française
translationRequired true

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Yaşar Kemal awardReceived Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
My Name Is Red awardReceived Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
1991 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book) – France isPartOf Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
subject surface form: 1991 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
Kemal Sadık Gökçeli awardReceived Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger alsoKnownAs Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
this entity surface form: Prize for the Best Foreign Book
Gonçalo M. Tavares awardReceived Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger