• 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...
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  • The American Library in Paris is the largest English-language lending library on the European mainland. It operates as an independent, non-profit cultural...
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    Bijan Omrani (section Awards)
    its UK launch in June 2017. The book was shortlisted in 2018 for the American Library in Paris Book Award, for "the most distinguished book of the year...
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  • library membership required.) "The 2017 American Library in Paris Book Award goes to The Novel of the Century" (Press release). American Library in Paris...
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  • Marilyn Yalom (category 20th-century American historians)
    2019-12-05. "The American Library in Paris Book Award Shortlist" Archived 2013-12-04 at the Wayback Machine. The American Library in Paris Book Award Archived...
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  • the inaugural American Library in Paris Book Award, and the 2013 Arthur Ross Book Award and was a runner-up for the Cundill Prize. The book covers the Vietnam...
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    American in Paris is a 1951 American musical romantic comedy film inspired by the 1928 jazz-influenced symphonic poem (or tone poem) An American in Paris...
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  • Walter Scott Prize (2014), and the American Library in Paris Book Award (2014). Anna Franco praised the book highly in a review for The Objective Standard...
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  • December 4, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. The American Library in Paris Book Award. The American Library in Paris. September 2013. Official website "Behind...
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    An American in Paris is a jazz-influenced symphonic poem (or tone poem) for orchestra by American composer George Gershwin first performed in 1928. It...
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    irresistible". A Country Road, A Tree was shortlisted for the American Library in Paris Book Award, The James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Sir Walter Scott...
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  • National Jewish Book Award. The book was also awarded the J. Russell Major Prize and the American Library in Paris Book Award. The book traces Jewish-Muslim...
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  • satirizes American politics and worldview. It has won several awards, and generated some controversy. An updated trade paperback edition was published in 2006...
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    the 2018 American Library in Paris Book Award Barcelona Dreaming: Shortlisted for the 2022 Edward Stanford Fiction with a Sense of Place Award 2001 – Rupert...
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  • The Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards is a yearly photography book award that is given jointly by Paris Photo and Aperture Foundation. It...
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  • National Book Awards, awarded to American authors by the National Book Foundation based in the United States. The National Book Awards were first awarded to...
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  • book's plot. Factors such as being set in Paris and being written during World War II impact how Madeline is read and received. Setting the book in Paris...
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    American poet John Ashbery (1927–2017) received numerous awards, nominations, grants, fellowships, and other honors in his lifetime. He was generally regarded...
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    A. B. Yehoshua (category Israel Prize in literature recipients)
    Book Award in the U.S. Yehoshua was shortlisted in 2005 for the first Man Booker International Prize. In 2006, "A Woman in Jerusalem" was awarded the Los...
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  • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (category American Book Award–winning works)
    Vietnamese American son to his illiterate mother. It was a finalist for the 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and was longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award...
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  • Times bestseller. It is a 2020 American Library Association Notable Book, and has won The 2019 National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature...
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    Winner of the 2013 American Library in Paris Book Award • Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations 2013 Gold Medal Arthur Ross Book Award • Finalist for...
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  • Review of Books. Retrieved March 16, 2021. "The American Library in Paris Book Awards, 2020". The American Library in Paris. Retrieved March 16, 2021....
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  • Poetry American Book Awards Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction Arab American Book Award Arthur Rense...
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    Toni Morrison (category American Book Award winners)
    National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved (1987); she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. Born...
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  • Paris Is Burning is a 1990 American documentary film directed by Jennie Livingston. Filmed in the mid-to-late 1980s, it chronicles the ball culture of...
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  • Leon Edel (category National Book Award winners)
    His work on James won him both a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize. Edel was born on 9 September 1907 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Fannie...
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  • The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally...
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  • Julie Orringer (category 21st-century American novelists)
    received the Association of Jewish Libraries Award (2020), and was named a finalist for the American Library in Paris Book Award (2019). The novel also inspired...
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  • The Last Nude (category Stonewall Book Award–winning works)
    Riverhead in the US in 2012. Set primarily in 1927 Paris, the book is largely inspired by events in the life of artist Tamara de Lempicka. Set primarily in 1920s...
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