Dominique Viart, Anthologie de la littérature contemporaine française, Romans et récits depuis 1980

What Do Book Awards Signal? An Analysis of Book Awards in Three Countries

“…The second prestigious list that was used was a survey by the New York Times conducted with 125 authors and critics asking them to identify ''the single best work of American fiction published in the last 25 years.'' For the French books, a recent anthology by Dominique Viart (2013) that collects the best French literature since 1980 and a list compiled by the prestigious newspaper LeMonde, which collects the most important literary book per year, from 1980 to 2009 were used. For the Dutch-language region, only one relevant source was available, a recent anthology collected by renowned literary critic Wim Brands (Brands, 2015).…”