{"id":4698,"date":"2017-01-12T22:16:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T06:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietnguyen.info\/?p=4698"},"modified":"2018-07-02T15:20:05","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T22:20:05","slug":"viet-thanh-nguyen-frances-best-foreign-book-award-prize-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietnguyen.info\/2017\/viet-thanh-nguyen-frances-best-foreign-book-award-prize-2017","title":{"rendered":"Viet Thanh Nguyen, France’s Best Foreign Book Award Prize 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer wins the 2017 Le Prix du Meilleur Livre \u00c9tranger (Best Foreign Book Prize) in the novel category. Original article by Antoine Oury published by ActuaLitte<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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De gauche \u00e0 droite : les laur\u00e9ats Philippe Sands et Viet Thanh Nguyen dans la biblioth\u00e8que du Sofitel Paris Le Faubourg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sous l’\u00e9gide des Escales Litt\u00e9raires Sofitel, le Prix du Meilleur Livre \u00c9tranger Sofitel a \u00e9t\u00e9 attribu\u00e9, dans la cat\u00e9gorie roman, \u00e0 l\u2019Am\u00e9ricain Viet Thanh Nguyen pour\u00a0Le sympathisant<\/i>\u00a0(Belfond), traduit par\u00a0Cl\u00e9ment Baude,\u00a0et, dans la cat\u00e9gorie essai, au Franco-Britannique Philippe Sands pour\u00a0Retour \u00e0 Lemberg<\/i>(Albin Michel), traduit par Astrid von Busekist.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cr\u00e9\u00e9 en 1948 par un groupe de directeurs litt\u00e9raires de maisons d\u2019\u00e9dition, le Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger a \u00e9t\u00e9 l\u2019un des premiers \u00e0 distinguer des ouvrages de litt\u00e9rature \u00e9trang\u00e8re. Depuis 2011, il est soutenu par Sofitel et d\u00e9cern\u00e9 au Sofitel Paris Le Faubourg. Ce Prix Litt\u00e9raire consacre chaque ann\u00e9e un roman et un essai publi\u00e9s \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9tranger et traduits en fran\u00e7ais.<\/p>\n

De nombreux critiques ou \u00e9diteurs prestigieux ont fait partie du jury tels que Maurice Nadeau et Raymond Queneau. Dans cette continuit\u00e9, le jury a compt\u00e9 cette ann\u00e9e onze personnalit\u00e9s du milieu litt\u00e9raire : Catherine Enjolet, Daniel Arsand, G\u00e9rard de Cortanze, Jo\u00ebl Schmidt, Christine Jordis, Jean-Claude Lebrun, Anne Freyer, Jo\u00eblle Losfeld, Alexis Liebaert, Nathalie Crom, ainsi que l\u2019\u00e9diteur et directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral des \u00c9ditions Stock, Manuel Carcassonne.<\/p>\n

Le r\u00e9sum\u00e9 de l’\u00e9diteur pour\u00a0Le sympathisant<\/em>\u00a0:<\/p>\n

Au Vietnam et en Californie, de 1975 \u00e0 1980 Avril 1975, Sa\u00efgon est en plein chaos. A l’abri d’une villa, entre deux whiskies, un g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l’arm\u00e9e du Sud Vietnam et son capitaine dressent la liste de ceux \u00e0 qui ils vont d\u00e9livrer le plus pr\u00e9cieux des s\u00e9sames : une place dans les derniers avions qui d\u00e9collent encore de la ville. Mais ce que le g\u00e9n\u00e9ral ignore, c’est que son capitaine est un agent double au service des communistes. Arriv\u00e9 en Californie, tandis que le g\u00e9n\u00e9ral et ses compatriotes exil\u00e9s tentent de recr\u00e9er un petit bout de Vietnam sous le soleil de L.A., notre homme observe et rend des comptes dans des lettres cod\u00e9es \u00e0 son meilleur ami rest\u00e9 au pays. Dans ce microcosme o\u00f9 chacun soup\u00e7onne l’autre, notre homme lutte pour ne pas d\u00e9voiler sa v\u00e9ritable identit\u00e9, parfois au prix de d\u00e9cisions aux cons\u00e9quences dramatiques. Et face \u00e0 cette femme dont il pourrait bien \u00eatre amoureux, sa loyaut\u00e9 vacille…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Le r\u00e9sum\u00e9 de l’\u00e9diteur pour\u00a0Retour \u00e0 Lemberg<\/em>\u00a0:<\/p>\n

Invit\u00e9 \u00e0 donner une conf\u00e9rence en Ukraine dans la ville de Lviv, autrefois Lemberg, Philippe Sands, avocat international r\u00e9put\u00e9, d\u00e9couvre une s\u00e9rie de co\u00efncidences historiques qui le conduiront de Lemberg \u00e0 Nuremberg, des secrets de sa famille \u00e0 l’histoire universelle. C’est \u00e0 Lemberg que Leon Buchholz, son grand-p\u00e8re, passe son enfance avant de fuir, \u00e9chappant ainsi \u00e0 l’Holocauste qui d\u00e9cima sa famille ; c’est l\u00e0 que Hersch Lauterpacht et Raphael Lemkin, deux juristes juifs qui jou\u00e8rent un r\u00f4le d\u00e9terminant lors du proc\u00e8s de Nuremberg et auxquels nous devons les concepts de ” crime contre l’humanit\u00e9 ” et de ” g\u00e9nocide “, \u00e9tudient le droit dans l’entre-deux guerres. C’est l\u00e0 enfin que Hans Frank, haut dignitaire nazi, annonce, en 1942, alors qu’il est Gouverneur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de Pologne, la mise en place de la ” Solution finale ” qui condamna \u00e0 la mort des millions de Juifs. Parmi eux, les familles Lauterpacht, Lemkin et Buchholz. Philippe Sands transcende les genres dans cet extraordinaire t\u00e9moignage o\u00f9 s’entrecroisent enqu\u00eate palpitante et m\u00e9ditation profonde sur le pouvoir de la m\u00e9moire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer wins the 2017 Le Prix du Meilleur Livre \u00c9tranger (Best Foreign Book Prize) in the novel category. Original article by Antoine Oury published by ActuaLitte. Sous l’\u00e9gide des Escales Litt\u00e9raires Sofitel, le Prix du Meilleur Livre \u00c9tranger Sofitel a \u00e9t\u00e9 attribu\u00e9, dans la cat\u00e9gorie roman, \u00e0 l\u2019Am\u00e9ricain Viet Thanh Nguyen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[925,924,140,923,177,922,123,9,10,281,120],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nViet Thanh Nguyen, France's Best Foreign Book Award Prize 2017 - Viet Thanh Nguyen<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/vietnguyen.info\/2017\/viet-thanh-nguyen-frances-best-foreign-book-award-prize-2017\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Viet\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/vietnguyen.info\/2017\/viet-thanh-nguyen-frances-best-foreign-book-award-prize-2017\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/vietnguyen.info\/2017\/viet-thanh-nguyen-frances-best-foreign-book-award-prize-2017\",\"name\":\"Viet Thanh Nguyen, France's Best Foreign Book Award Prize 2017 - 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