Émile Guimet Prize for Asian Literature

The Émile Guimet Prize for Asian Literature (Le Prix Émile Guimet de littérature asiatique) is a French literary prize awarded for the first time in 2017, and annually thereafter.

About the prize

The jury is made up of staff from the Musée Guimet, with writers, publishers and others in the book world. Between five and ten works from the previous year are selected on the basis of four criteria

  • the winning work is a translation into French,
  • the author is from one of the geographical areas of expertise of the museum,
  • the translation was published in France during the previous calendar year,
  • the original text was published in its country of origin less than ten years earlier.

Winners and honorees

Year Author Work (English & French titles) Original language & title Translator(s)
2017 (1st)
Judging panel:
  • Jean-Claude Carrière (chair)
  • Sophie Makariou
  • Valérie Vesque-Jeancard
  • Emmanuel Lozerand
  • Danielle Elisseeff
  • Elisabeth Lesne
  • Xavier Monthéard
  • Hélène Salat[1]
Rana Dasgupta Capital
(Delhi Capitale) 		English Bernard Turle
Park Hyoung-su Nana at Dawn
(Nana à l’aube) 		Korean
새벽의 나나 		Fabien Bartkowiak
Jeong Hyun-joo
Hideo Okuda Lala Pipo Japanese
ララピポ 		Patrick Honnoré
Maeda Yukari
Gong Ji-young Tall Blue Ladder
(L’échelle de Jacob) 		Korean
높고 푸른 사다리 		Lim Yeong-hee
Mélanie Basnel
Ch'ǒn Myǒnggwan Modern Family
(Une famille à l’ancienne) 		Korean
고령화 가족 		Patrick Maurus
Han Kang Human Acts
(Celui qui revient) 		Korean
소년이 온다 		Jeong Eun-jin
Jacques Batilliot
Su Tong Shadow of the Hunter
(Le Dit du Loriot) 		Chinese
黄雀记 		François Sastourné
Tan Twan Eng The Garden of Evening Mists
(Le jardin des brumes du soir) 		English Philippe Giraudon
2018 (2nd)
Judging panel:
Hwang Sok-yong At Dusk
(Au soleil couchant) 		Korean
해질 무렵 		Chol Mikyung
Jean-Noël Juttet
A Yi A Perfect Crime
(Le Jeu du chat et de la souris) 		Chinese
下面，我该干些什么 		Mélie Chen
Omar Shahid Hamid The Prisoner
(Le Prisonnier) 		English Laurent Barucq
Meena Kandasamy The Gypsy Goddess
(La Colère de Kurathi Amman) 		English Carine Chichereau
Wu Ming-yi The Magician on the Skywalk
(Le Magicien sur la passerelle) 		Chinese
天橋上的魔術師 		Gwennaël Gaffric
Nashiki Kaho The Lies of the Sea
(Les Mensonges de la mer) 		Japanese
海うそ 		Corinne Quentin
2019 (3rd)
Judging panel:
Natsu Miyashita The Forest of Wool and Steel
(Une forêt de laine et d’acier) 		Japanese
羊と鋼の森 		Mathilde Tamae-Bouhon
Eun Hee-kyung Comfort the Boy
(Encouragez donc les garçons) 		Korean
소년을 위로해줘 		Hélène Lebrun
Yun Yennie
Shih-Li Kow The Sum of Our Follies
(La somme de nos folies) 		English Frédéric Grellier
Ashok Ferrey The Ceaseless Chatter of Demons
(L’incessant bavardage des demons) 		English Alice Seelow
Jia Pingwa The Lantern Bearer
(Portée-la-Lumière) 		Chinese
带灯 		Geneviève Imbot-Bichet
2020 (4th)
Judging panel:
Fang Fang A Soft Burial
(Funérailles molles) 		Chinese
软埋 		Brigitte Duzan
Zhang Xiaoqiu
Shion Miura The Great Passage
(La grande traverse) 		Japanese
舟を編む 		Sophie Refle
Cho Nam-joo Kim Ji-young, Born 1982
(Kim Jiyoung née en 1982) 		Korean
82년생 김지영 		Pierre Bisiou
Kyungran Choi
Shiga Izumi The Heartless God Descends
(Quand le ciel pleut d’indifférence) 		Japanese
無情の神が舞い降りる 		Elisabeth Suetsugu
Prajwal Parajuly Land Where I Flee
(Fuir et revenir) 		English Benoîte Dauvergne
Tsering Döndrup The Red Howling Wind
(Tempête rouge) 		Tibetan
རླུང་དམར་འུར་འུར། 		Françoise Robin
Fatima Bhutto The Runaways
(Comme des lions) 		English Sophie Bastide-Foltz
Manu Joseph Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous
(Miss Laila armée jusqu’aux dents) 		English Bernard Turle
Hye-young Pyun The Hole
(Le jardin) 		Korean
홀 		Lim Yeong-Hee
Lucie Modde
Liu Zhenyun Children of the Melon Eating Age
(Un parfum de corruption) 		Chinese
吃瓜时代的儿女们 		Geneviève Imbot-Bichet
2021 (5th)
Judging panel:
  • Régine Hatchondo (chair)
  • Pascal Bruckner
  • Olivier Rolin
  • Guillaume Husson
  • Jean-Claude Pastor
  • Sophie Makariou[6][7]
Ng Kim Chew Rain
(Pluie) 		Chinese
雨 		Pierre-Mong Lim
Mitsuyo Kakuta Pale Moon
(Lune de papier) 		Japanese
紙の月 		Sophie Refle
Hideo Yakuda Three Days in The Life of a Yakuza
(Trois jours dans la vie d’un yakuza) 		Japanese
純平、考え直せ 		Mathilde Tamae-Bouhon
Geetanjali Shree Tomb of Sand
(Ret Samadhi, au-delà de la frontière) 		Hindi
रेत समाधि 		Annie Montaut
Deepa Anappara Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
(Les Disparus de la Purple Line) 		English Élisabeth Peellaert
Chi Ta-wei Pearls
(Perles) 		Chinese
珍珠 		Gwennaël Gaffric
Ren Xiaowen On the Balcony
(Sur le balcon) 		Chinese
阳台上 		Brigitte Duzan
Areno Inoue Stir Fried Cabbage on the Sidewalk
(L'Ode aux choux sautés) 		Japanese
キャベツ炒めに捧ぐ 		Patrick Honnoré
Jung Jae-Han Investigative Notebooks of a Necromantic Handsome
(Le carnet d'enquête d'un beau gosse nécromant) 		Korean
미남당 사건수첩 		Han Yumi
Hervé Péjaudier
Hiroko Oyamada The Factory
(L'Usine) 		Japanese
工場 		Silvain Chupin
2022 (6th)[8]

Judging Panel:

Zabou Breitman (chair)

Yannick Lintz

Line Papin

Guillaume Husson

Olivier Roellinger

Maria Lund

Shubhangi Swarup Dérive des âmes et des continentsLatitudes of Longing English Céline Schwaller
Zhang Yueran L'hôtel du Cygne

The Hotel Du Cygne

Chinese Pierre-Mong Lim
Anthonythasan Jesuthasan La sterne rougeThe Red Tern Tamil Léticia Ibanez
Shookofeh Azar Quand s’illumine le prunier sauvageThe Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree Farsi Muriel Sapati

References

  1. ^ "Selection de l'édition 2017".
  2. ^ "Selection de l'édition 2018".
  3. ^ "Selection de l'édition 2019".
  4. ^ "Fang Fang, lauréate du Prix Émile Guimet de littérature asiatique 2020".
  5. ^ "Selection de l'édition 2020".
  6. ^ "Le prix Émile Guimet de littérature asiatique 2021 est décerné à Ng Kim Chew pour son roman « Pluie »".
  7. ^ "Selection de l'édition 2021".
  8. ^ "Quatre finalistes pour le prix Émile-Guimet 2022". Livres Hebdo (in French). Retrieved 2023-01-27.