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10-11 years old: Cloud Chaser by Anne-Fleur Drillon and Eric Puybaret (ed.

7-9 years old: The Tiger Prince by Chen Jiang Hong (ed.3-6 years old: The Lonely Little Ghost by Bénédicte Guettier (ed.The prize seeks to reinforce the practice and love of reading among children. This reader’s choice award invited children between 3 and 11 years of age to choose their favorite book from a selection of works of Francophone youth literature that are available in English translation. Négar Djavadi and translator of Disoriental, Tina Kover, received the award during a ceremony hosted by the Prize’s honorary chairs, American author and translator Lydia Davis and French literary journalist François Busnel.Īlong with the winner of the Albertine prize, the winners of the Prix Albertine Jeunesse were also announced. “Now in its third year, the prize received more votes than any other year, a testament to the growing appreciation and need for international literature in the United States.”Įuropa Editions was fêted tonight at a celebration at Albertine, the acclaimed bookshop of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York City. “By exploring the nuances between the intersection of eastern and western cultures in Disoriental, Négar Djavadi sheds light on one of the many facets of French culture” said Benedicte de Montlaur, cultural counselor of the French Embassy. Throughout the novel, moments of Iranian history, politics, and culture punctuate stories of family drama and triumph. While alone amid couples, family narratives and personal recollections mix as her thoughts wander from her grandmother’s birth in a late 19th-century harem in northern Iran through her childhood in Tehran to her present incarnation as a 25-year-old French-Iranian punk fan. during the previous year.ĭisoriental follows the family history of Kimiâ Sadr as she sits in the waiting room of a Parisian fertility clinic.

The $10,000 award honors the author and translator of a French-language novel published in the U.S. The annual reader’s-choice award recognizes US-based readers’ favorite work of contemporary French fiction translated and published in the US. Disoriental, Négar Djavadi’s novel that explores the epic journey of a family over three generations between Teheran and Paris was named winner of the Albertine Prize 2019, co-presented by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and Van Cleef & Arpels.

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