Milles félicitations à Carys Davies, the French edition of whose crystalline Clear has been awarded the Prix du meilleur livre étranger 2025 for fiction! Clear was published as Éclaircie by Éditions de la Table Ronde and translated by David Fauquemberg.
The prize was announced November 6th in a piece in Livres hebdo and awarded in a ceremony on December 4th at the Sofitel Paris which the author, currently a fellow at Columbia University’s Paris-based Institute for Ideas and Imagination, attended.
The Prix du meilleur livre étranger were founded in 1948 by a collective of publishers and editors. Every year a prize committee selects the best work of fiction and of non-fiction, respectively, from outside of the Francophone world that have been published in French that year.
See the official prize announcement here and discover the exquisite Clear in its US edition (Scribner, 2024) here.
