Award Winning Books by
CLAIRE MESSUD

The Burning Girl by Claire Messud 163 reviews (2017) (256p) (LATimes) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

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The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud 788 reviews (2013) (272p) (Amazon Top100) (NYT100) (WP Top10) (LATimes) (ALA) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Emperor’s Children, a masterly new novel: the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed and betrayed by a desire for a world beyond her own. Nora Eldridge, an elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, long ago compromised her dream to be a successful artist, mother and lover. She has instead b... more >>

The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud 347 reviews (2006) (288p) (NYTimes) (Amazon) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Emperor's Children is a richly drawn, brilliantly observed novel of fate and fortune—about the intersections in the lives of three friends, now on the cusp of their thirties, making their way--and not-- in New York City. In this tour de force, the celebrated author Claire Messud brings to life a city, a generation, and the way we live in this moment.... more >>

The Hunters by Claire Messud 9 reviews (2001) (192p) (PF) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

A Simple Tale is the moving account of Maria Poniatowski, a woman born in the Ukraine between the two World Wars, taken by the Germans for slave labor, and eventually relocated as a displaced person to Canada. She and her husband settle in Toronto. They struggle to build a new life there and provide their son Radek with every opportunity. But a gulf widens between mother and son. What of th... more >>

The Last Life by Claire Messud 54 reviews (1999) (403p) (Amazon) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Narrated by a fifteen-year-old girl with a ruthless regard for truth, The Last Life is a beautifully told novel of lies and ghosts, love and honor. Set in colonial Algeria, and in the south of France and New England, it is the tale of the LaBasse family, whose quiet integrity is shattered by the shots from a grandfather's rifle. As their world suddenly begins to crumble, long-hidden shame emerges:... more >>

When the World Was Steady by Claire Messud 9 reviews (1995) (270p) (PF) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

In this highly acclaimed novel by the author of The Emperor's Children, life isn't all Emmy and Virginia Simpson might have hoped. When Emmy's marriage to an Australian man ends, she flees her home in Sydney for the tropical paradise of Bali to "find herself"—only to become embroiled with an eclectic crew of international misfits and smugglers. Her sister Virginia, meanwhile, has neve... more >>

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Claire Messud Award Stats

Major Prize* Nominations 3   Unique Books Nominated for a Major Prize* 3   Pulitzer Prize Wins 0   Pulitzer Prize Nominations 0   National Book Critics Circle Award Wins 0   National Book Critics Circle Award Nominations 0   National Book Award Wins 0   National Book Award Nominations 0   Man Booker Prize Wins 0   Man Booker Prize Nominations 0   PEN/Faulkner Award Wins 0   PEN/Faulkner Award Nominations 2 The Hunters · When the World Was Steady ·

*Major Prize = Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Award, Man Booker Prize, and PEN/Faulkner Award

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