Prix Laure Bataillon

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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]

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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, Laure Guille-Bataillon, 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]

YearAuthorTitleOriginal LanguageTranslatorPublisher
1986 Hugo Claus Le Chagrin des BelgesDutch Alain Van Crugten Julliard
1987 Giorgio Manganelli AmourItalian Jean-Baptiste Para Denoël
1988 Juan José Saer L'AncêtreSpanish Laure Bataillon Flammarion
1989 Hartmut Lange Le Récital suivi de La Sonate WaldsteinGerman Bernard Kreiss Fayard
1990 Bohumil Hrabal Vends maison où je ne veux plus vivreCzech Claudia Ancelot Laffont
1991 Bo Carpelan AxelSwedish C.G. Bjurström et Lucie Albertini Gallimard
1992 Josef Hiršal Bohème, bohèmeCzech Erika Abrams Albin Michel
1993 Gert Jonke L'École du virtuoseGerman Uta Müller et Denis Denjean Verdier
1994 John Updike Rabbit en paixEnglish Maurice Rambaud Gallimard
1995 Hans Magnus Enzensberger Requiem pour une femme romantiqueGerman Georges Arès Gallimard
1996 Giuseppe Longo L'AcrobateItalian Jean Pastureau et Marie-Noëlle Pastureau Éditions L'Arpenteur  [ fr ]
1997 Bernhard Schlink Le LiseurGerman Bernard Lortholary Gallimard
1998 Sergio Ramírez Le Bal des masquesSpanish Claude Fell Éditions Rivages  [ fr ]
1999 W.G. Sebald Les ÉmigrantsGerman Patrick Charbonneau Actes Sud
2000 Mo Yan The Republic of Wine Chinese Noël Dutrait et Liliane Dutrait Seuil
2001 Erri De Luca Trois chevauxItalian Danièle Valin Gallimard
2002 Derek Walcott Une autre vieEnglish Claire Malroux Gallimard
2004 Vanghélis Hadziyannidis Le Miel des angesModern Greek Michel Volkovitch Albin Michel
2005 Gamal Ghitany Le Livre des illuminationsArabic Khaled Osman Seuil
2006 Russell Banks The Darling English Pierre Furlan Actes Sud
2007 Cynthia Ozick Les Papiers de PuttermesserEnglish Agnès Desarthe L'Olivier
2008 Vassili Golovanov Éloges des voyages insensésRussian Hélène Châtelain Verdier
2009 Duong Thu Huong Au zénithVietnamese Phuong Dang Tran Sabine Wespieser
2010 Julián Ríos Le Pont de l'AlmaSpanish Geneviève Duchêne et Albert Bensoussan Tristram
2011 Reinhard Jirgl Renégat, roman du temps nerveuxGerman Martine Remon Quidam
2012 Peter Esterhazy Pas question d'artHungarian Agnès Jarfas Gallimard
2013 Chrístos Chryssópoulos Une lampe entre les dents, chronique athénienneModern Greek Anne-Laure Brisac Actes Sud
2014 Nii Ayikwei Parkes Notre quelque partEnglish Sika Fakambi Zulma
2015 Rick Bass Toute la terre qui nous possèdeEnglish Aurélie Tronchet Bourgois
2016 Gabriel Josipovici Infini : L'histoire d'un momentEnglish Bernard Hœpffner Quidam
2017 José Carlos Llop SolsticeSpanish Edmond Raillard Jacqueline Chambon
2018 Allan Moore JerusalemEnglish Christophe Claro Inculte
2019 Olga Tokarczuk Les livres de JacobPolish Maryla Laurent Noir sur blanc

Winners of the Prix Laure-Bataillon Classique

YearAuthorTitleOriginal LanguageTranslatorPublisher
2003 Ovid Les Écrits érotiques Latin Danièle Robert Actes Sud
2004 Thomas Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica English Bernard Hoepffner José Corti
2005 Daniil Harms Œuvres en prose et en versRussian Yvan Mignot Verdier
2006 Giacomo Leopardi Zibaldone Italian Bertrand Schefer Allia
2007 Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Le Guépard Italian Jean-Paul Manganaro Seuil
2008 Lucio Victorio Mansilla Une excursion au pays des RanquelesSpanish Odile Begué Bourgois
2009 Miguel de Cervantes Œuvres complètesSpanish Jean-Raymond Fanlo Le Livre de Poche
2010 Robert Walser Au bureau et Petite ProseGerman Marion Graf Zoé
2011 Ingeborg Bachmann La Trentième HeureGerman Marie-Simone Rollin Seuil
2012 Isaac Babel Œuvres complètesRussian Sophie Benech Le Bruit du Temps
2014 Franz Michael Felder Scènes de ma vieGerman Olivier Le Lay Verdier
2015 Ken Kesey Et quelquefois j'ai comme une grande idée English Antoine Cazé Monsieur Toussaint Louverture
2016 Bruno Schulz Récits du treizième moisPolishAlain Van CrugtenL'Âge d'homme
2017 Ovid Les métamorphoses Latin Maris Cosnay l'Ogre
2018 Laurence Sterne Voyage sentimental English Guy Jouvet Tristram
2019 Virgil Les Géorgiques de Virgile Latin Frédéric Boyer Gallimard

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