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Grand Prix De La Francophonie
The Grand Prix de la francophonie is presented annually by the Académie française at the initiative of the Canadian Government to a personality who contributes to the development of the French language throughout the world. Laureates * 1986: Georges Schehadé * 1987: Yoichi Maeda * 1988: Jacques Rabemananjara * 1989: Hubert Reeves * 1990: Albert Cossery * 1991: Léon-Joseph Suenens * 1992: Khac Vien Nguyen and Maurice Métral and Stig Strömholm * 1993: Henri Lopes * 1994: Mohammed Dib * 1995: Salah Stétié * 1996: Abdou Diouf * 1997: Abdellatif Berbich * 1998: Jean Starobinski * 1999: Gunnar von Proschwitz * 2000: Giovanni Macchia * 2001: François Cheng * 2002: Bronislaw Geremek * 2003: Édouard J. Maunick * 2004: Albert Memmi * 2005: Jane Conroy * 2006: Roland Mortier * 2007: Élie Barnavi * 2008: Lide Tan * 2009: Thomas W. Gaehtgens * 2010: Jean Métellus * 2011: Abdellatif Laâbi and Dariush Shayegan * 2012: Dariush Shayegan and Michèle Rakotoson * 2013: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francophonie
Francophonie is the quality of speaking French. The term designates the ensemble of people, organisations and governments that share the use of French on a daily basis and as administrative language, teaching language or chosen language. The term was coined by Onésime Reclus in 1880 and became important as part of the conceptual rethinking of cultures and geography in the late 20th century. Denominations Francophonie, francophonie and francophone space are syntagmatic. This expression is relevant to countries which speak French as their national language, may it be as a mother language or a secondary language. These expressions are sometimes misunderstood or misused by English speakers. They can be synonymous but most of the time they are complementary. * "francophonie", with a small "f", refers to populations and people who speak French for communication or/and in their daily lives. * "Francophonie", with a capital "F", can be defined as referring to the governments, gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Cheng
François Cheng (; born 30 August 1929) is a Chinese-born French academician, writer, poet, and calligrapher. He is the author of essays, novels, collections of poetry and books on art written in the French language, and the translator of some of the great French poets into Chinese. Biography Born in Nanchang, Jiangxi in 1929, Cheng traveled to France in 1948 on a study grant at the age of nineteen. In his 2002 speech to the Académie française, Cheng said, "I became a Frenchman in law, mind and heart more than thirty years ago ..especially from that moment when I resolutely went over to the French language, making it the weapon, or the soul, of my creative work. This language, how can I say everything that I owe to it? It is so intimately bound up with the way I live and my inner life that it has proved to be the emblem of my destiny." Cheng's first works were academic studies about Chinese poetry and painting. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he worked with the psychoa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Banu
Georges Banu (22 June 1943 – 21 January 2023) was a Romanian-born French writer, theatre critic, and academic. Biography Born in Buzău on 22 June 1943, Banu studied at the Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film. He moved to France in 1973 and became a professor at Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris 3. He began writing essays on theatre and was notably the author of ''Théâtre sortie de secours'', ''L'Acteur qui ne revient pas'', ''Notre théâtre, La Cerisaie'', ''L'Homme de dos'', and ''Peter Brook. Vers un théâtre premier''. Banu subsequently became a professor of theatre at the Université catholique de Louvain and was president of the ''Association internationale des critiques de théâtre'' from 1994 to 2000. In 1990, he founded the ''Académie expérimentale des théâtres'', which ceased operations in 2001, alongside . He was co-director of the magazine ''Alternatives théâtrales'' and director of the Actes Sud Actes Sud is a French publishing house ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boualem Sansal
Boualem Sansal ( ar, بوعلام صنصال; born 15 October 1949) is an Algerian author. In 2012, he was named winner of the Prix du roman arabe, but the prize money was withdrawn due to Sansal's visit to Israel to speak at the Jerusalem Writers Festival. Biography Boualem Sansal was born in Théniet El Had, Tissemsilt. Trained as an engineer with a doctorate in economics, he began writing novels at the age of 50 after retiring from his job as a high-ranking official in the Algerian government. The assassination of President Mohamed Boudiaf in 1992 and the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Algeria inspired him to write about his country. Sansal continues to live with his wife and two daughters in Algeria despite the controversy his books have aroused in his homeland. At the 2007 International Festival of Literature in Berlin, he was introduced as a writer "exiled in his own country. " He claims that Algeria is becoming a bastion of Islamic extremism and the country is lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qiang Dong
__NOTOC__ Qiang may refer to: Culture *Qiang (name), a Chinese name, including a list of people with the name, or an alternate transliteration of Chinese surname Jiang (surname) (彊/强) *Qiang people, an ethnic group in China *Qiang (historical people) various non-Chinese groups referred to in Chinese historical literature *Qiangic languages, a subfamily of the Tibeto-Burman family spoken in Sichuan and Tibet Autonomous Region Geography * Qiang la, an Indian transliteration of Changla Military *Qiang (spear), a type of Chinese spear See also * Qian (other) * Jiang (other) * Chiang (other) Chiang may mean: * a Chinese surname (蔣), alternatively spelt Jiang ** Chiang Kai-shek, former leader of the Republic of China * Chi'ang, variant spelling of the ancient Qiang (historical people) (羌) * Chi'ang, variant spelling of the modern ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michèle Rakotoson
Michèle Rakotoson (born 1948) is a writer, journalist, and Film Maker from Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa .... Her novels include ''Dadabé''. Since 1983, she has lived mainly in France. Works *''Dadabe: et autres nouvelles'' (1984) *''Le bain des reliques: roman malgache'' (1988) *''La Maison morte'' (''The Dead House'') (play, 1991)Thérèse Migraine-George – African women and representation: from performance to politics 2008 "In her play, La Maison morte (The Dead House) (1991), the Madagascan writer Michele Rakotoson describes the end of the reign of a President-Dictator, Randriambe. Both his wife and daughter criticize him for his violent and deadly actions" *''Elle, au printemps: roman'' (1996) *''Henoÿ – Fragments en écorce'' (1998) *'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dariush Shayegan
Dariush Shayegan ( fa, داریوش شایگان; 24 January 1935 – 22 March 2018) was one of the most consequential thinkers of contemporary Iran and the Near East. Life and career He was born in Tabriz from an Shia Iranian Azeri father and a Georgian Sunni mother; his mother descended from an aristocratic family from Georgia. Shayegan studied at the Sorbonne University in Paris. He was a Professor of Sanskrit and Indian religions at the Tehran University. Besides Persian, Shayegan wrote in French and English, and spoke fluently Georgian, Russian, and Turkish (both Ottoman and Azeri).. Having spent his teens at boarding school in Great Britain, Shayegan subsequently lived, during his formative years, in Geneva, where he read at the Université de Genève French literature, philosophy, Sanskrit, and political science. Shayegan received his doctorate (''doctorat de troisième cycle'') at the Sorbonne under the tutelage of his Doktorvater Henry Corbin, with a thesis enti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdellatif Laâbi
Abdellatif Laâbi is a Moroccan poet, journalist, novelist, playwright, translator and political activist, born in 1942 in Fes, Morocco. Laâbi, then teaching French, founded with other poets the artistic journal Souffles, an important literary review in 1966. It was considered as a meeting point of some poets who felt the emergency of a poetic stand and revival, but which, very quickly, crystallized all Moroccan creative energies: painters, film-makers, men of theatre, researchers and thinkers. It was banned in 1972, but throughout its short life, it opened up to cultures from other countries of the Maghreb and those of the Third World. Abdellatif Laâbi was imprisoned, tortured and sentenced to ten years in prison for "crimes of opinion" (for his political beliefs and his writings) and served a sentence from 1972–1980. He was, in 1985, forced into exile in France. The political beliefs that were judged criminal are reflected in the following comment, for example: "Everythin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Métellus
Jean may refer to: People * Jean (female given name) * Jean (male given name) * Jean (surname) Fictional characters * Jean Grey, a Marvel Comics character * Jean Valjean, fictional character in novel ''Les Misérables'' and its adaptations * Jean Pierre Polnareff, a fictional character from ''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'' Places * Jean, Nevada, USA; a town * Jean, Oregon Jean is an unincorporated community in Clackamas County, Oregon Oregon () is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washingt ..., USA Entertainment * Jean (dog), a female collie in silent films * "Jean" (song) (1969), by Rod McKuen, also recorded by Oliver * ''Jean Seberg'' (musical), a 1983 musical by Marvin Hamlisch Other uses * JEAN (programming language) * USS ''Jean'' (ID-1308), American cargo ship c. 1918 * Sternwheeler Jean, a 1938 paddleboat of the Willamette River See als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas W
Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (other) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Apostle * Thomas (bishop of the East Angles) (fl. 640s–650s), medieval Bishop of the East Angles * Thomas (Archdeacon of Barnstaple) (fl. 1203), Archdeacon of Barnstaple * Thomas, Count of Perche (1195–1217), Count of Perche * Thomas (bishop of Finland) (1248), first known Bishop of Finland * Thomas, Earl of Mar (1330–1377), 14th-century Earl, Aberdeen, Scotland Geography Places in the United States * Thomas, Illinois * Thomas, Indiana * Thomas, Oklahoma * Thomas, Oregon * Thomas, South Dakota * Thomas, Virginia * Thomas, Washington * Thomas, West Virginia * Thomas County (other) * Thomas Township (other) Elsewhere * Thomas Glacier (Greenland) Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Thomas'' (Burton novel) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Élie Barnavi
Élie Barnavi (born 1946) is an Israeli historian and diplomat, who was the Israeli ambassador to France between 2000 and 2002. Born in Bucharest he moved as a child to Tel Aviv, Israel. He authored some fifteen books on France and Europe in the turmoil of the Religious Wars and on the contemporary history of Israel and of the Jewish people. He published numerous studies in professional journals in Europe, the US and Canada, as well as political articles in the Israeli and European press. Biography Born in Bucharest, Romania, Barnavi emigrated as a child to Tel Aviv and became an Israeli citizen. He has degrees in history, and in political science from Tel Aviv University (TAU), and received his PhD in modern history from the University of Paris in 1971, after which he was appointed professor of modern Western history at TAU, where he headed the Department of General History and the Center for International Studies. He became the science director of the Museum of Europe in Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roland Mortier
Roland Mortier (21 December 1920 – 31 March 2015) was a prominent Belgian scholar, philosopher and academic, known for his contributions to linguistics and literature. Mortier obtained his PhD in Philology, specialisting in 18th century literature and Franco-German reports, from the Université Libre de Bruxelles in 1946. He was a member of the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique and the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques. In 1965, he was awarded the Francqui Prize on Human Sciences. Background Mortier was born on the 21 December 1920 in Ghent, Belgium. His family spoke primarily French, and he studied in Dutch at the Royal Athenaeum in Antwerp. Mortier extended his language skills further, learning German, when holidaying with his maternal grandmother in Luxembourg. In 1938, he enrolled at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. However, in November 1941, the institution was forced to close its doors due to the occupier's ukase. Mort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
