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American Library In Paris Book Award
American Library in Paris Book Award was created in 2013 with a donation from the Florence Gould Foundation. It is awarded each November with a remunerative prize of $5,000 to "a work written originally in English that deepens and stimulates our understanding of France or the French.." The American Library in Paris "was founded and originally run by American expatriates in Paris in 1920, with books that had been sent by American libraries to soldiers fighting in World War I." Honorees 2013 The shortlist was announced in September, and the winner in December 2013. Winner: Fredrik Logevall, '' Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam'' Shortlist: * Simon van Booy, ''The Illusion of Separateness'' *Alex Danchev, ''Cezanne: A Life'' (about Paul Cézanne) * Tom Reiss, '' The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo'' *Marilyn Yalom, ''How the French Invented Love'' Jury: Diane Johnson, Adam Gopnik and Julian Barnes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Library In Paris
The American Library in Paris is the largest English-language lending library on the European mainland. It operates as an independent, non-profit cultural association in France incorporated under the laws of Delaware. Library members have access to more than 100,000 books and periodicals (of which 20,000 books, magazines, and CDs are for children and teens), plus reference and research resources in paper and electronic form. The library currently serves nearly 5000 members from more than 60 countries. The library was established in 1920 under the auspices of the American Library Association's Library War Service with a core collection of books and periodicals donated by American libraries to United States armed forces personnel serving their allies in World War I. History Founding Toward the end of World War I, when the United States entered the conflict, hundreds of American libraries launched the Library War Service, a massive project to send books to the troops fightin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastian Faulks
Sebastian Charles Faulks (born 20 April 1953) is a British novelist, journalist and broadcaster. He is best known for his historical novels set in France – '' The Girl at the Lion d'Or'', ''Birdsong'' and '' Charlotte Gray''. He has also published novels with a contemporary setting, most recently '' A Week in December'' (2009) and ''Paris Echo'', (2018) and a James Bond continuation novel, '' Devil May Care'' (2008), as well as a continuation of P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves series, ''Jeeves and the Wedding Bells'' (2013). He was a team captain on BBC Radio 4 literary quiz '' The Write Stuff''. Biography Early life Faulks was born on 20 April 1953 in Donnington, Berkshire, to Peter Faulks and Pamela (née Lawless). His father was a decorated soldier (he won the Military Cross), who later became a solicitor and circuit judge. His brother Edward Faulks, Baron Faulks QC, a barrister, became a Conservative Government Minister in January 2014 in the Ministry of Justice. His uncle was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Gidwitz
Adam Gidwitz (born February 14, 1982) is the author of the best selling children's books ''A Tale Dark and Grimm'' (2010), ''In a Glass Grimmly'' (2012), and ''The Grimm Conclusion'' (2013), all published by Dutton Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House. He received a 2017 Newbery Honor for '' The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog'' (2016). In 2021, his book ''A Tale Dark and Grimm'' was adapted into an animated miniseries on Netflix. Early life He was born in San Francisco in 1982 but grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. His grandfather, Willard Gidwitz, was a president at Helene Curtis. Through his father's family, he is also related to Illinois GOP gubernatorial candidate and Trump appointee Ronald Gidwitz. He attended Columbia University, where he majored in English literature and spent his junior year abroad in the university's Oxford/Cambridge Scholars program. After college he became a teacher at Saint Ann's School in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Bellos
David Bellos (born 1945) is an English-born translator and biographer. Bellos is Meredith Howland Pyne Professor of French Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University in the United States. He was director of Princeton's Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication from its inception in 2007 until July 1, 2019. Biography Bellos' research topics have included Honoré de Balzac and Georges Perec. Bellos published a translation of Perec's most famous novel, ''Life A User's Manual'', in 1987. He won the first Man Booker International Prize for translation in 2005 for his translations of works by Albanian author Ismail Kadare, despite not speaking Albanian. His translations were done from previous French translations."The Englishing of Ismail Kadare" by David Bellos, '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Google Drive
Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service developed by Google. Launched on April 24, 2012, Google Drive allows users to store files in the cloud (on Google's servers), synchronize files across devices, and share files. In addition to a web interface, Google Drive offers apps with offline capabilities for Windows and macOS computers, and Android and iOS smartphones and tablets. Google Drive encompasses Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides, which are a part of the Google Docs Editors office suite that permits collaborative editing of documents, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, forms, and more. Files created and edited through the Google Docs suite are saved in Google Drive. Google Drive offers users 15 GB of free storage through Google One. Google One also offers 100 GB, 200 GB, 2 TB, offered through optional paid plans. Files uploaded can be up to 750 GB in size. Users can change privacy settings for individual files and f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert O
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Sante
Lucy Sante (formerly Luc Sante; born May 25, 1954) is a Belgium-born American writer, critic, and artist. She is a frequent contributor to ''The New York Review of Books''. Her books include '' Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York'' (1991). She lived as a male until announcing in September 2021 that she was transitioning to female. She wrote on her Instagram account: "Yes, this is me, and yes, I am transitioning.... You can call me Lucy ...and my pronoun, thankyouverymuch, is she." Biography Born in Verviers, Belgium, Sante migrated to the United States in the early 1960s. She attended school in New York City, first at Regis High School in Manhattan and later at Columbia University from 1972 to 1976; due to several incompletes and outstanding library fines, she did not take a degree. Since 1984 she has been a full-time writer. Sante worked in the mailroom and then as assistant to editor Barbara Epstein at ''The New York Review of Books''. She became a regular contributor t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Drake
David A. Drake (born September 24, 1945) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy literature. A Vietnam War veteran who has worked as a lawyer, he is now a writer in the military science fiction genre. Biography Drake graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Iowa, majoring in history (with honors) and Latin. His studies at Duke University School of Law were interrupted for two years when he was drafted into the U.S. Army, where he served as an enlisted interrogator with the 11th Armored Cavalry (the Black Horse Regiment) in Vietnam and Cambodia. After the war, from 1972 to 1980 he worked as the Assistant Town Attorney in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Since 1981 he transitioned to full time writing of science fiction literature. With Karl Edward Wagner and Jim Groce, he was one of the initiators of Carcosa, a small press company. He now lives in Pittsboro, North Carolina. On 17 November 2021 he announced he is retiring from writing novels, due to unspecified ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Benoît Nadeau
Jean-Benoît Nadeau (born in 1964) is a Canadian author, journalist, and lecturer, and a Fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs. He is the author of ''The Bonjour Effect'' and '' Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong'' which he co-wrote with his wife, Julie Barlow. Biography Born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Jean-Benoît Nadeau received a bachelor's degree from McGill University in 1992 where he majored in Political Science and History. He began his journalism career in 1987, as a theatre critic for the Montreal cultural weekly ''Voir''. He is best known as a regular contributor to Canada's national French-language magazine ''L’actualité''. Since September 2014, he also writes a column for the French language Montreal daily ''Le Devoir''. In all, he has published more than 1000 feature stories and columns. In 1993, he began writing in English for English Canadian magazines like '' Saturday Night'', ''Profit'', and ''Report on Business Magazine.'' Over the years, his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Barlow
Julie Barlow (March 1968 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian journalist, author and conference speaker who writes and publishes both in English and French and is based in Montreal, Quebec. As an author, she has written four books on language and culture, among which are '' Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong'' and ''The Bonjour Effect''. Originally from Hamilton, Ontario, she has written features for a wide variety of magazines and newspapers including ''USA Today'', '' L’actualité'', ''The New York Times'' and ''The Christian Science Monitor''. Biography Julie Barlow received a bachelor's degree from McGill University where she majored in political science. She received a master's degree in English literature from Concordia University. After living in Paris, France from 1999 to 2001, she co-wrote ''Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong'' (St. Martin's Press, 2003) with her husband Jean-Benoît Nadeau, a book about France and French culture. The book was translated into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Bakewell
Sarah Bakewell (born 1963) is a British author and professor. She currently lives in London. She received the Windham–Campbell Literature Prize in Non-Fiction. Early life Bakewell was born in the seaside town of Bournemouth, England, where her parents ran a small hotel. When she was five, the family began travelling through India in a camper and continued to do so for two years before settling in Sydney, Australia. There, her father worked as a bookseller and her mother worked as a librarian. As a child, she often wrote, and spent some of her young adulthood working in bookstores. Bakewell studied philosophy at the University of Essex in England. She embarked on a PhD on philosopher Martin Heidegger, but gave it up to move to London, where she initially found work at a tea-bag factory. Bakewell later completed a post-graduate degree on Artificial Intelligence. Career Bakewell began writing again during her job at the Wellcome Library in London as a curator of early printe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Baker (novelist)
Jo Baker is a British writer. She is the author of six novels, including the bestselling '' Longbourn'', a ''New York Times'' Notable Book, in development as a feature film with Random House Films and StudioCanal. She has also written short stories for BBC Radio 4 and reviews for ''The Guardian'' and ''The New York Times Book Review''. In 2018, she was awarded a Visiting Fellowship at the Queen's University Belfast, and she is currently an Honorary Fellow at Lancaster University. Early life and education Baker was born and grew up in the village of Arkholme, in Lancashire, England. She was educated at Queen Elizabeth School, Kirkby Lonsdale, and Somerville College, Oxford. She moved to Belfast in 1995 to study for an MA in Irish literature at Queen's University, where she went on to complete a PhD on the Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen. Novels * ''Offcomer'' (2002). Baker's debut novel is set in Belfast in the wake of the Good Friday Agreement, and follows the life o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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