Actress Scarlett Johansson has won her defamation lawsuit against French author Grégoire Delacourt, with the court awarding her $3,400.

Johansson was initially suing for $68,000, but her main goal was to block the novel from being translated from French into English, while stopping any film deals. Although Johansson technically won the suit, the books author and publisher are more than happy with the result.

Delacourt's novel, La Première Chose Qu'on Regard (The First Thing You Look At), has yet to be published in English.

The novel features a mechanic who is nervous around women and has relationship troubles. One day the mechanic is surprised to find that Scarlett Johansson has walked into his garage.

As the novel unfolds, the mechanic learns that the women is not Scarlett Johansson, but a lookalike model who has a penchant for claiming she hates being viewed by men as a sexual object.

The character is a bit controversial, and has various affairs throughout the book. Ultimately, she meets an untimely end in the book's conclusion.

To Delacourt's surprise, Johansson was offended instead of being flattered by the authors mirror character of herself.

"I thought she'd get in contact to ask me to go for a coffee with her," Delacourt told the Guardian. "I didn't write a novel about a celebrity.... I wrote a real love story and a homage to feminine beauty, especially interior beauty."

Delacourt claims that the lawsuit is probably just a misunderstanding because of the language barrier.

"It's stupefying, especially as I'm not sure she's even read the novel since it hasn't been translated yet," he said.

Emmanuelle Allibert, a representative for the book's publisher, JC Lattès, told reporters that they too were astounded by the suit.

"We have never known anything like it. It is all the more surprising for the fact that the novel is not even about Scarlett Johansson. It is about a woman who is Scarlet Johansson's double," he said.

Allibert said that the author and publisher were taking the decision in stride, and were happy about the outcome of the case.

"All her other demands, including damages of €50,000, were rejected, notably that there should be a ban on the book being translated or made into a film. We just have to cut out the bit about the affairs, which is just four lines," Allibert said.