French Voices Grand Prize for Black-Out

We are pleased to announce the winners of the second 2021 French Voices Awards session: six books in translation the French Voices Committee cannot wait to see in print.

Established in 2006 by the French Embassy and FACE Foundation, these awards recognize translators and publishers of outstanding works. Since its inception, the program has supported numerous talented writers, and this year’s winners join a fantastic roster of authors published in the collection.   

The French Voices Awards are bestowed upon titles with both an identified American Publisher or texts that are not yet under contract with an American publishing house. We are eagerly seeking an American publisher for two titles this session: Loo Hui Phang and Hugues Micol’s Black-out translated by Edward Gauvin and Sarah Manigne’s Quitter Madrid translated by Heather Green. For questions regarding these books, please email us so that we can share more information and a sample translation. For titles from previous session still seeking an American publisher, please go to the following page*. 

We want to express our most heartfelt congratulations to all the winners!