The five shortlisted titles for the 2019 Albertine Prize, co-presented by Van Cleef & Arpels and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and honoring American readers' favorite work of contemporary Francophone fiction, are:
Waiting for Tomorrow by Nathacha Appanah, translated by Geoffrey Strachan (Graywolf Press)
Disoriental by Négar Djavadi, translated by Tina Kover (Europa Editions)
Small Country by Gaël Faye, translated by Sarah Ardizzone (Hogarth)
The Perfect Nanny: A Novel by Leïla Slimani, translated by Sam Taylor (Penguin)
The Order of the Day by Éric Vuillard, translated by Mark Polizzotti (Other Press)
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The winners of the 2019 Minnesota Book Awards, sponsored by the Friends of the St. Paul Library, are:
Novel & short story: Laurentian Divide by Sarah Stonich (University of Minnesota Press)
Genre fiction: The Voice Inside by Brian Freeman (Thomas & Mercer)
Poetry: GeNtry!fication: or the scene of the crime by Chaun Webster (Noemi Press)
General nonfiction: Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick by Maya Dusenbery (HarperOne)
Memoir and creative nonfiction: Chinese-Ness: The Meanings of Identity and the Nature of Belonging by Wing Young Huie (Minnesota Historical Society Press)
Minnesota nonfiction: The Crusade for Forgotten Souls: Reforming Minnesota's Mental Institutions, 1946-1954 by Susan Bartlett Foote (University of Minnesota Press)
Children's literature: The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfeld (Dial Books for Young Readers)
Middle grade literature: The Key to Every Thing by Pat Schmatz (Candlewick)
Young adult literature: Dream Country by Shannon Gibney (Dutton Books for Young Readers)