pour le Paradis, Albin Michel 2019: Géraldine Dalban-Moreynas, for On ne meurt pas d'amour, Plon 2020: Ketty Rouf, for On ne touche pas, Albin Michel 2021: Maud Ventura, for "Mon mari", L'iconoclaste 2022: Maria Larrea, for "Les gens de Bilbao naissent où ils veulent", Grasset Winners of Prix du Premier Roman Etranger 1998: Martin Suter, Small World (Switzerland) 1999: Boualem Sansal, Le Serment des barbares (Algeria) 2000: Jim Fergus, One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd (United States) 2001: Keith Ridgway, The Long Falling (Ireland) 2002: Gwen Edelman, War Story (United States) 2003: Lavinia Greenlaw, Mary George of Allnorthover (United Kingdom) 2004: Inderjit Badhwar, The Chamber of Perfumes (India) 2005: Samina Ali, Madras on Rainy Days (India) 2006: Benjamin Kunkel, Indecision (United States) 2007: Dinaw Mengestu, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (United States) 2008: James Cañón, Tales from the Town of Widows (Colombia) 2009: Chloe Aridjis, Book of Clouds (United States) 2010: Amanda Smyth, Black Rock (Ireland) 2011: Nic Pizzolatto, Galveston: A Novel (United States) 2012: Amy Waldman, The Submission (United States) 2013: Patrick McGuinness, The Last Hundred Days (United Kingdom) 2014: Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted: A Novel (United States) 2015: (ex-æquo) Vanessa Barbara, Noites de alface (Brazil) 2015: (ex-æquo) Maja Haderlap, Angel of Oblivion (Austria) 2016: Davide Enia, On Earth as It Is in Heaven: A Novel (Italy) 2017: Katharina Winkler, Blue Jewellery (Germany) 2018: Shih-Li Kow, The Sum of Our Follies (Malaysia) 2019: Sana Krasikov, The Patriots (United States) 2020: Olja Savičević, Adios Cow Boy (Croatia) 2021: Daniel Loedel, Hadès, Argentine (United States) 2022: Jarred McGinnis, The Coward (United States) References French fiction awards First book awards Awards established in 1977