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Actes Sud
Actes Sud is a French publishing house based in Arles. It was founded in 1978 by author Hubert Nyssen. By 2013, the company, then headed by Nyssen's daughter, Françoise Nyssen, had an annual turnover of 60 million euros and 60 staff members. History ACTeS was situated in Paradou, a village in the Vallée des Baux. Here, founder Hubert Nyssen, his wife Christine Le Bœuf, (which was the granddaughter of Belgian banker and patron Henry Le Bœuf), his sister Françoise Nyssen, Bertrand Py and Jean-Paul Capitani met and founded Actes Sud. In 1983 Actes Sud moved to Arles. The publishing house was incorporated on May 2, 1987. The ''Actes Sud'' was a publication of the "Atelier de cartographie thématique et statistique" (ACTeS). Authors A selection of authors Actes Sud published: Prizes * 2004: the book '' The Scortas' Sun'' (''Le Soleil des Scorta'') by Laurent Gaudé, was the first book published by Actes Sud, receiving a Prix Goncourt (Prix Goncourt/Roman). The boo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubert Nyssen
Hubert Nyssen (born 11 April 1925 – 12 November 2011) was a Belgian-French writer, publisher and founder of the Éditions Actes Sud. Biography Hubert Nyssen grew up in Boitsfort (today a commune in Brussels) and settled in Provence in 1968. He became a naturalised French citizen in 1976. A novelist, diarist, essayist and poet, he was the author of numerous books. During his childhood in Brussels, under the German occupation, he was influenced by his grandfather who gave him a taste for intellectual culture. After his university studies at the Free University of Brussels, he founded an advertising company which became one of the most prosperous in Belgium. At the same time, he ran his own cultural center in Brussels, spoke on the radio and published his first literary works. In 1978, breaking up with his past as a French businessman, he founded in Arles the éditions Actes Sud with the help of his wife Christine Le Bœuf, a descendant of a rich family of Belgian businessmen, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Prix RTL-Lire
The grand prix RTL-''Lire'' is one of the main literary awards of the winter/spring literary season in France. Given in partnership with Lire magazine, it rewards a French-language novel chosen by a jury of readers. History In 1992, the grand prix RTL-''Lire'' took over the "prix RTL grand public" created in 1975. It is awarded in March of each year at the (Paris Book Fair) to a French-language novel by a jury composed of one hundred readers chosen by twenty booksellers in France. A long-list of ten authors followed by a short-list of five is selected in January by the editors of the RTL radio station and the magazine '' Lire''. The award-winning book benefits from a promotional campaign and extensive editorial coverage on RTL radio and in the magazine ''Lire'' List of laureates of the Grand prix RTL-''Lire'' File:Isabelle Carré janvier 2016.jpg External links Grand Prix RTL - "Lire"on the site of the Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμει� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Soleil Des Scorta
''The Scortas' Sun'' (french: Le Soleil des Scorta) is a novel by the French writer Laurent Gaudé. It is also known as ''The House of Scorta''. It received the Prix Goncourt. See also * 2004 in literature * Contemporary French literature This article is about French literature from the year 2000 to the present day. Overview The economic, political and social crises of contemporary France -terrorism, violence, immigration, unemployment, racism, etc.—and (for some) the notion ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Scortas Sun, The 2004 French novels French-language novels Prix Goncourt winning works Actes Sud books ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurent Gaudé
Laurent Gaudé (born demain, 6 July 1972) is a French writer. He studied theater and has written many dramatic works, among them ''Onysos le furieux, Cendres sur les mains, Médée Kali,'' and ''Le Tigre bleu de l'Euphrate''. Life Gaudé was born in Paris. After a master's in humanities at the Université Paris III,http://www.larousse.fr/encyclo/Data/print/PERSONNAGE/prt183982.htm for which he presented a dissertation entitled ''Le thème du combat dans la dramaturgie comptemporaine française'' (''The theme of combat in the French contemporary dramaturgy''), supervised by Michel Corvin (1994), then a post-graduate diploma at the same university, for which he presented a dissertation entitled ''Le conflit dans le théâtre contemporain'' (''The conflict in contemporary theater''), supervised by Jean-Pierre Sarrazac (1998), he wrote plays (1999). His first play, ''Combat de possédés'', was published in 1999. It has been performed in Germany and has been read at the Royal Natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sermon On The Fall Of Rome
''The Sermon on the Fall of Rome'' (french: Le Sermon sur la chute de Rome) is a novel by the French writer Jérôme Ferrari, published in 2012. The book received the Prix Goncourt in 2012. It was translated to English from the original French by Geoffrey Strachan. Summary The story begins with the manager of a village absconding, leaving behind a number of quarrelling would-be successors. As the story progresses, all of them fall prey to accusations of adultery and insolvency. The situation seems hopeless until Matthieu and Libero, natives of the village, rise to meet the challenge of succeeding the missing manager. Tragically, Matthieu and Libero are led astray by alcohol and women. The story encompasses themes of tragedy, human decadence, absurdity, romance, comedy, and wisdom. See also * 2012 in literature * Contemporary French literature This article is about French literature from the year 2000 to the present day. Overview The economic, political and social crises ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jérôme Ferrari
Jérôme Ferrari is a French writer and translator born in 1968 in Paris. He won the 2012 Prix Goncourt for his novel '' Le Sermon sur la chute de Rome'' ("The Sermon on the Fall of Rome"). Ferrari has lived in Corsica and taught philosophy at the '' Lycée international Alexandre-Dumas'' in Algiers for several years, then at the Lycée Fesch of Ajaccio. Currently, he is professor of philosophy at the French School of Abu Dhabi. Several of his novels have been translated into English, including ''Where I Left My Soul'' (2012), which is "set in the mid-1950s during the Algerian war, looking backwards to the second world war and the French defeat in Indochina, and forwards to the collapse in 1958 of the Fourth Republic." Most recently, his novel ''In His Own Image'' was published in English translation by Europa Editions. Works * * * 2018 ''A son image''(English translation: ''In His Own Image'', 2022) * 2015 ''Le Principe'' (English translation: ''The Principle'', 2016) * 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compass (novel)
'' Compass'' (french: Boussole ) is a novel by the French writer Mathias Énard, published in 2015. The book received the Prix Goncourt. Premise During a sleepless night in Vienna, the musicologist Franz Ritter looks back on his life, his university career, his stays in the Orient, and his love, Sarah. Reception Writing in ''Le Monde'', Raphaëlle Leyris remarked that if Énard's earlier novel ''Zone'' was a book of violence and hate, ''Compass'' may be the antidote with the taste of the unknown and curiosity for the other at its heart. described ''Compass'' as an ‘intimate and effusive encyclopedia disguised as a novel’. He went on to make reference to Enard's erudition and background as an orientalist. In a piece on Orientalism published in the ''New York Review of Books'', Adam Shatz argued that with ''Compass'' Enard had failed to ‘transcend the oppressive nature of Orientalism, via paradoxically, the Orientalist tradition itself’. The novel has also been descri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathias Énard
Mathias Énard (born 1972) is a French novelist. He studied Persian and Arabic and spent long periods in the Middle East. He has lived in Barcelona for about fifteen years, interrupted in 2013 by a writing residency in Berlin. He won several awards for ''Zone'', including the Prix du Livre Inter and the Prix Décembre, and won the Prix Goncourt/Le Choix de l’Orient, the , and the Prix du Roman-News for ''Rue des Voleurs'' (''Street of Thieves''). He won the 2015 Prix Goncourt for '' Boussole'' (''Compass''). In 2020 he was Friedrich Dürrenmatt Guest Professor for World Literature at the University of Bern. Awards and honours *2004 Prix des cinq continents de la francophonie for ''La Perfection du tir'' *2004 Prix Edmée-de-La-Rochefoucauld for ''La Perfection du tir'' *2008 Prix Décembre for ''Zone'' *2008 Prix Candide for ''Zone'' *2008 Bourse Thyde-Monnier SGDL for ''Zone'' *2008 Prix Cadmous for ''Zone'' *2009 Prix Initiales for ''Zone'' *2009 Inter Book Prize for '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Meursault Investigation
''The Meursault Investigation'' (french: Meursault, contre-enquête) is the first novel by Algerian writer and journalist Kamel Daoud. It is a retelling of Albert Camus' 1942 novel, '' The Stranger.'' First published in Algeria by Barzakh Editions in October 2013, it was reissued in France by Actes Sud (May 2014). Its publication in France was followed by nominations for many prizes and awards. Relationship to Camus' ''The Stranger'' Meursault, the protagonist of Albert Camus' novel '' The Stranger,'' murders a character known only as "the Arab", saying, in his trial, that the murder was a meaningless gesture caused by sunstroke or God's absence. Camus left Meursault's victim nameless, but Kamel Daoud gives him a name: Musa. ''The Meursault Investigation'' revisits these events, but from the point of view of Harun, Musa's brother. Giving a name to Meursault's nameless victim, for Daoud, is about more than just revisiting a minor character. In an interview with the ''Los Ange ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prix Goncourt For Debut Novel
Prix was an American power pop band formed in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1975 by Tommy Hoehn and Jon Tiven. The group ended up primarily as a studio project. Its recordings were produced by Tiven along with former Big Star member Chris Bell, who also played guitar and sang backup vocals. Prix is also famous of Banjo playing. Alex Chilton also participated in the recordings, along with session drummer Hilly Michaels. Although the group generated some major record label interest—notably from Mercury Records and Columbia/CBS Records—it ultimately only released a double A-side single on Ork Records in 1977 and a single on Miracle Records in 1978. Its only live performance came at a CBS Records showcase in 1976. In 1977, just as Ork Records released the first single and booked the group at CBGB, Prix broke up due both to Hoehn's unwillingness to remain in New York and to creative differences. In 1978, two of the songs recorded during the Prix sessions were included on ''Losing You t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamel Daoud
Kamel Daoud ( ar, كمال داود; born June 17, 1970) is a French-Algerian writer and journalist. He currently edits the French-language daily '' Le quotidien d’Oran,'' for which he writes a popular column, "Raïna Raïkoum" (Our Opinion, Your Opinion). The column often includes commentary on the news. Early life and education Daoud was born in Mostaganem, Algeria on June 17, 1970.Steven R. SerafinKamel Daoud ''Encyclopedia Britannica'' (March 11, 2016). The oldest of six children, he was raised in an Arabic-speaking Muslim family in Algeria. Daoud studied French literature at the University of Oran. Daoud was married but divorced in 2008, after the birth of his daughter as his wife had become increasingly religious (and started wearing the hijab). He is a father to two children (the eldest, a son, the youngest, a daughter) and dedicated his novel ''The Meursault Investigation'' to them. Journalistic career In 1994, he entered ''Le Quotidien d'Oran'', a French-language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
