Émile Guimet Prize for Asian Literature

The jury is made up of staff from the Musée Guimet, with writers, publishers and others in the book world. Between five and ten works from the previous year are selected on the basis of four criteria

• the winning work is a translation into French,
• the author is from one of the geographical areas of expertise of the museum,
• the translation was published in France during the previous calendar year,
• the original text was published in its country of origin less than ten years earlier.