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== Awards and recognitions ==

* Winner of the [[Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française]] (Grand Prize for Fiction from the French Academy), 1939, one of France's oldest and most prestigious literary awards.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Antoine de SAINT-EXUPÉRY {{!}} Académie française |url=https://www.academie-francaise.fr/antoine-de-saint-exupery |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=www.academie-francaise.fr}}</ref>
* Winner of the U.S. [[National Book Award]] for 1939 Nonfiction.<ref name=nyt1940>{{cite news |title=1939 Book Awards Given by Critics: Elgin Groseclose's 'Ararat' is Picked as Work Which Failed to Get Due Recognition |work=The New York Times |date=February 14, 1940 |page=25 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1940/02/14/archives/1939-book-awards-given-by-critics-elgin-grosecloses-ararat-is.html }}</ref> Saint-Exupéry only received the prize in early 1942, as he had been flying as a reconnaissance pilot during the [[Battle of France]] when the award was announced earlier.<ref name="Miller-Fay-1946a">{{cite journal |last1=Miller |first1=John R. |last2=Fay |first2=Eliot G. |jstor=381288 |title=Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: A Bibliography |journal=The French Review |publisher=[[American Association of Teachers of French]] |volume=19 |issue=5 |date=1946 |pages=299–309 [p. 300] }}</ref>{{#tag:ref|

Non-American authors were eligible for the [[List of winners of the National Book Award#1935 to 1941|U.S. "national" awards before the war]] and authors from France and the British Isles won five of twelve awards in the general nonfiction and fiction categories. |group="N"|

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* The [[National Geographic Magazine|''National Geographic ADVENTURE'']] voted the book No. 3 in its all-time list of 100 best adventure-exploration books.
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* ''[[Outside (magazine)|Outside]]'' magazine voted the book No. 1 in its all-time list of 25 adventure-explorer books.