Adam Shatz Wins American Library in Paris Book Award
L–R: Adam Shatz and his book, The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon.
Adam Shatz, visiting professor of the humanities at Bard College, has been named the recipient of the 2024 American Library in Paris Book Award for his book The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon, a biography about the activist whose writings about race, revolution, and the psychology of power have shaped radical movements across the world. Now in its 12th year, the American Library in Paris award honors a title that best realizes new and intellectually significant ideas about France, the French people, or encounters with French culture. “The personal story Shatz brings to life is remarkable but the book’s real accomplishment is to illuminate the development of Fanon’s ideology, political, intellectual and profoundly personal, even emotional,” the jury wrote of the book. “Shatz has given us a Fanon for all thinkers and readers, captured with freshness and clarity and vitality—a Fanon for our present moment.”
Post Date: 12-02-2024
Post Date: 12-02-2024