Jane Rogoyska wins in Paris with the story of the Hôtel Lutetia
The American Library in Paris announced the award for Hotel Exile at the setting of the book on 5 November.
On 5 November the American Library in Paris awarded its Book Award to Jane Rogoyska for Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War, published by Allen Lane. The ceremony took place at the Hôtel Lutetia in Paris, France, the building whose transformations the book follows between 1933 and 1945. A meeting place for intellectuals and exiles in the 1930s, it became the headquarters of German military intelligence during the occupation and received deportees returning from the camps at the end of the war. The prize is worth $5,000. The Library commissioned two hand-bound copies: one for Rogoyska, the other for its Special Collections.