Laure Bataillon
The Laure-Bataillon Prize (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.
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.[2] 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.[3]
Winners of the Prix Laure-Bataillon
The past winners of the Prix Laure-Bataillon include Nobel Prize laureates, Derek Walcott and Mo Yan.[4]
| Year | Author | Title | Original Language | Translator | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Hugo Claus | Le Chagrin des Belges | Dutch | Alain Van Crugten | Julliard |
| 1987 | Giorgio Manganelli | Amour | Italian | Jean-Baptiste Para | Denoël |
| 1988 | Juan José Saer | L'Ancêtre | Spanish | Laure Bataillon | Flammarion |
| 1989 | Hartmut Lange | Le Récital suivi de La Sonate Waldstein | German | Bernard Kreiss | Fayard |
| 1990 | Bohumil Hrabal | Vends maison où je ne veux plus vivre | Czech | Claudia Ancelot | Laffont |
| 1991 | Bo Carpelan | Axel | Swedish | C.G. Bjurström et Lucie Albertini | Gallimard |
| 1992 | Josef Hiršal | Bohème, bohème | Czech | Erika Abrams | Albin Michel |
| 1993 | Gert Jonke | L'École du virtuose | German | Uta Müller et Denis Denjean | Verdier |
| 1994 | John Updike | Rabbit en paix | English | Maurice Rambaud | Gallimard |
| 1995 | Hans Magnus Enzensberger | Requiem pour une femme romantique | German | Georges Arès | Gallimard |
| 1996 | Giuseppe Longo | L'Acrobate | Italian | Jean et Marie-Noëlle Pastureau | L'Arpenteur |
| 1997 | Bernhard Schlink | Le Liseur | German | Bernard Lortholary | Gallimard |
| 1998 | Sergio Ramírez | Le Bal des masques | Spanish | Claude Fell | Rivages |
| 1999 | W.G. Sebald | Les Émigrants | German | Patrick Charbonneau | Actes Sud |
| 2000 | Mo Yan | Le Pays de l'alcool | Chinese | Noël et Liliane Dutrait | Seuil |
| 2001 | Erri De Luca | Trois chevaux | Italian | Danièle Valin | Gallimard |
| 2002 | Derek Walcott | Une autre vie | English | Claire Malroux | Gallimard |
| 2003 | Ovide | Les Écrits érotiques | Latin | Danièle Robert | Actes Sud |
| 2004 | Vanghélis Hadziyannidis | Le Miel des anges | Modern Greek | Michel Volkovitch | Albin Michel |
| 2004 | Thomas Browne | Pseudodoxia epidemica | English | Bernard Hoepffner | José Corti |
| 2005 | Gamal Ghitany | Le Livre des illuminations | Arabic | Khaled Osman | Seuil |
| 2005 | Daniil Harms | Œuvres en prose et en vers | Russian | Yvan Mignot | Verdier |
| 2006 | Russell Banks | American Darling | English | Pierre Furlan | Actes Sud |
| 2006 | Giacomo Leopardi | Zibaldone | Italian | Bertrand Schefer | Allia |
| 2007 | Cynthia Ozick | Les Papiers de Puttermesser | English | Agnès Desarthe | L'Olivier |
| 2007 | Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa | Le Guépard | Italian | Jean-Paul Manganaro | Seuil |
| 2008 | Vassili Golovanov | Éloges des voyages insensés | Russian | Hélène Châtelain | Verdier |
| 2008 | Lucio Victorio Mansilla | Une excursion au pays des Ranqueles | Spanish | Odile Begué | Bourgois |
| 2009 | Duong Thu Huong | Au zénith | Vietnamese | Phuong Dang Tran | Sabine Wespieser |
| 2009 | Cervantès | Œuvres complètes | Spanish | Jean-Raymond Fanlo | Le Livre de poche |
| 2010 | Julián Ríos | Le Pont de l'Alma | Spanish | Geneviève Duchêne et Albert Bensoussan | Tristram |
| 2010 | Robert Walser | Au bureau et Petite Prose | German | Marion Graf | Zoé |
| 2011 | Reinhard Jirgl | Renégat, roman du temps nerveux | German | Martine Remon | Quidam |
| 2011 | Ingeborg Bachmann | La Trentième Heure | German | Marie-Simone Rollin | Seuil |
| 2012 | Peter Esterhazy | Pas question d'art | Hungarian | Agnès Jarfas | Gallimard |
| 2012 | Isaac Babel | Œuvres complètes | Russian | Sophie Benech | Le Bruit du Temps |
| 2013 | Christos Chryssopoulos | Une lampe entre les dents, chronique athénienne | Modern Greek | Anne-Laure Brisac | Actes Sud |
| 2014 | Nii Ayikwei Parkes | Notre quelque part | English | Sika Fakambi | Zulma |
| 2014 | Franz Michael Felder | Scènes de ma vie | German | Olivier Le Lay | Verdier |