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Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger

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Prix du Meilleur livre étranger — Novel

  • 2022: Juan Gabriel Vásquez, for Volver la vista atrás as Une rétrospective (Le Seuil)
  • 2021: Guzel Yakhina, for Дети мои as Les enfants de la Volga (Noir sur Blanc).
  • 2020: Colum McCann, for Apeirogon (Belfond)
  • 2019ː Christoph Hein, for Glückskind mit Vater as L'ombre d'un père (Metaillié)
  • 2018ː Eduardo Halfon, for Duelo as Deuils (Quai Voltaire)
  • 2017: Viet Thanh Nguyen, for The Sympathizer as Le Sympathisant (Belfond)
  • 2016: Helen MacDonald, for H is for Hawk as M pour Mabel (Fleuve éditions)
  • 2015: Martin Amis, for The Zone of Interest as La Zone d'intérêt (Calmann-Lévy)
  • 2014: Drago Jancar, for To noč sem jo viel (I Saw Her That Night) as Cette nuit, je l’ai vue (Éditions Phébus)
  • 2013: Alan Hollinghurst, for The Stranger's Child as L'Enfant de l'étranger (Albin Michel)
  • 2012: A. B. Yehoshua, for The Retrospective as Rétrospective
  • 2011: Alessandro Piperno, for Persecuzione. Il fuoco amico dei ricordi as Persécution
  • 2010: Gonçalo M. Tavares, for Aprender a Rezar na Era da Técnica (Learning to Pray in the Age of Technique), as Apprendre à prier à l’ère de la technique, Viviane Hamy
  • 2009: Karel Schoeman for Hierdie Lewe (This Life), as Cette vie, Phébus, Paris
  • 2008: Charles Lewinsky, for Melnitz
  • 2007: Joseph McBride, for Searching for John Ford (as À la recherche de John Ford)
  • 2006: Nicole Krauss, for The History of Love (as L'Histoire de l'amour)
  • 2005: Colm Tóibín, for The Master (as Le Maître)
  • 2004: Carlos Ruiz Zafón, for The Shadow of the Wind (as L'Ombre du vent)
  • 2003: Peter Carey, for True History of the Kelly Gang (as La Véritable Histoire du gang Kelly)
  • 2002: Orhan Pamuk, for My Name is Red (as Mon nom est Rouge)
  • 2001: Per Olov Enquist, for The Visit of the Royal Physician (as Le Médecin personnel du roi)
  • 2000: Philip Roth, for American Pastoral (as Pastorale américaine)
  • 1999: Péter Nádas, for A Book of Memories (as Le Livre des mémoires)
  • 1998: Anna Maria Ortese, for The Lament of the Linnet (as La Douleur du chardonneret)
  • 1997: António Lobo Antunes, for The Inquisitors' Manual (as Le Manuel des inquisiteurs)
  • 1996: Jonathan Coe, for What a Carve Up! as Testament à l'anglaise
  • 1995: Joan Brady for Theory of War (as L’Enfant Loué)
  • 1994: Graham Swift, for Ever After (as À tout jamais)
  • 1992: Jane Urquhart, for The Whirlpool as Niagara
  • 1990: Tim O'Brien, for The Things They Carried as À propos du courage
  • 1988: Margarita Karapanou, for The sleepwalker (as Le Somnambule)
  • 1985: Salman Rushdie, for Shame as La Honte
  • 1984: Vasily Grossman for Life and Fate (as Vie et Destin)
  • 1983: Hector Bianciotti, for L'amour n'est pas aimé
  • 1973: John Hawkes, for The Blood Oranges as Les Oranges de sang
  • 1972: Fred Chappell, for Dagon as Dagon le dieu-poisson
  • 1969: Gabriel García Márquez, for One Hundred Years of Solitude as Cent ans de solitude
  • 1966: Peter Härtling, for Niembsch as Niembsch ou l'Immobilité
  • 1965: John Updike, for The Centaur as Le Centaure
  • 1956: Alejo Carpentier, for The Lost Steps/Los pasos perdidos as Le Partage des eaux (Galimard)
  • 1950: Miguel Ángel Asturias, for El Señor Presidente as Monsieur le Président

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