Maria Stepanova awarded Prix du Meilleur livre étranger 2022

We are proud to announce that this year’s winner of the Prix du Meilleur livre étranger in the category »Non-Fiction« is Suhrkamp author Maria Stepanova with In Memory of Memory (original Russian title: Памяти памяти), »a beautiful meditation on the birth and becoming of memory … An existential quest. A monument to memory.« (Elena Balzamo, Le Monde des Livres) Having also been nominated for the Prix Médicis étranger, the Prix Femina étranger and the Prix Les Inrockuptibles, we congratulate our author on this prestigious prize.

The novel was translated from the Russian by Anne Coldefy-Faucart and published by Stock under the title En mémoire de la mémoire. Juan Gabriel Vasquez, winner in the fiction category, and Maria Stepanova will receive the prize on December 1, 2022, in Paris.
 

»Stepanova questions with finesse the role of memory as well as its deviations,
sometimes harmless, sometimes harmful when they emerge as a cult of the past.«
Laetitia Strauch-Bonart, L’Express, France

»[Stepanova’s] family story is one of commanding intelligence and breathtaking erudition.«
Didier Jacob, L’Obs, France, starred review

»A true literary phenomenon, this melancholic chronicle of a century of Russian history, seen through the prism of the own family past […] [this is] magnificent literary vagrancy, in which we meet, in turn, Pushkin, Boris Pasternak, or the great Russian poet, Ossip Mandelstam, author of The Noise of Time; Maria Stepanova’s novel has the semblance of a documentary, an essay between fiction and non-fiction. It wants to follow in the footsteps of the great German writer W.G. Sebald, whose entire oeuvre oscillates between autobiography, biographies and true fiction...«
Pierre de Gasquet, Les Echos Week-End, France

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