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Grand Prix De La Critique Littéraire
The grand prix de la Critique littéraire was created in 1948 by Robert André. It is awarded each year by the French PEN club to a literary essay. Chaired by , its jury is now made up of Jean Blot, Jean-Luc Despax, Jean-Claude Lamy, Daniel Leuwers, , Laurence Paton (general secretary), and {{ill, Patrick Tudoret, fr. Since its creation, it has rewarded many leading authors and intends to promote a literary criticism of quality and, quite simply, literature. List of laureates * 2019: Judith Lyon-Caen, for ''La griffe du temps'' ( Gallimard) * 2018: Patrick Mimouni, for ''Les mémoires maudites : Juifs et homosexuels dans l’œuvre et la vie de Marcel Proust'' ( Grasset) * 2017: Lakis Proguidis, for ''Rabelais, que le roman commence'' (Editions Pierre-Guillaume de Roux) * 2016: Béatrice Commengé, for ''Une vie de paysages'' (Editions Verdier) * 2015: Pierre Boncenne, for ''Le Parapluie de Simon Ley'', Philippe Rey * 2014: Paul Audi, for ''Qui témoignera pour nous ? Albe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Blot
Alexandre Blokh (russian: Александр Арнольдович Блок), called Jean Blot, (31 March 1923, Moscow – 23 December 2019, Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois (Essonne)) was a French writer, translator, and senior civil servant of Russian origin. Biography Blot came from two bourgeois families (St. Petersburg diamonds for his father, wholesale grocer for his mother). In the USSR of the twenties, his parents worked at the defense commissioner for his father, as a lawyer for street children for his mother. His family moved to Germany at the time of the New Economic Policy, NEP, then moved to Paris where he attended primary school. Sent to England to learn English for high school, he spent the war in France. A Russian and Jewish refugee, he fled to Lyon and engaged in the Resistance (''Le juif Margolin'' 1998). He was a doctor of Law, Bachelor of Arts, International Civil Servant at the United Nations in New York (1946–1956), in Geneva (1958–1961) then at the UNESCO in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurent Greilsamer
Laurent Greilsamer (2 February 1953 – 8 November 2023) was a French journalist and essayist. He served as deputy director of ''Le Monde'' and co-founded the weekly newspaper ' in 2014. Biography Born in a Jewish family in Neuilly-sur-Seine on 2 February 1953, Greilsamer graduated from the École supérieure de journalisme de Lille and was a journalist for ''Le Figaro'' from 1974 to 1976 and for ''Le Quotidien de Paris'' in 1977. He joined ''Le Monde'' in 1977 and served in the positions of editor, reporter, senior editor, editor-in-chief, deputy editorial director, and deputy director, where he served from 2007 to 2011. On television, Greilsamer presented the program ''Le Monde des idées'' from 2005 to 2006. He was the author of numerous documentaries, including ''Le Monde contre le président : Beuve-Méry vs de Gaulle'', broadcast on France 5 in April 2014. He also wrote ''La parole est au garde des Sceaux'', broadcast on France 5 in 2016. Additionally, he authored four biog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Roy (poet)
Claude Roy (28 August 1915 – 13 December 1997) was a French poet and essayist. He was born and died in Paris. Biography After the fall of France during World War II, Roy was captured as a prisoner of war. He later escaped and joined the French resistance. Initially associated with the political right, by 1943 Roy drifted towards the left under the influence of Louis Aragon and adhered to the French Communist Party, openly attacking fascism and Vichy sympathizers. He left the Communist Party after the suppression of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and, as a contributor to ''Le Nouvel Observateur'', became a fixture on the anti-totalitarian left. He was a signatory to the Manifesto of the 121 in favor of Algerian independence. Awards * 1951 Fénéon Prize for ''Le poète mineur'' * 1969 Prix Valery Larbaud for his book '' Le verbe Aimer et autres essais'' * 1985 Prix Goncourt de la Poésie Works Non-Fiction * ''Défense de la littérature'', idées, folio * ''Moi je'', Galli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René De Obaldia
René de Obaldia (22 October 1918 – 27 January 2022) was a French playwright and poet. He was elected to the Académie française on 24 June 1999. Biography He was the great-grandson of José Domingo de Obaldía, the second President of Panama. He grew up in Paris, studying at the Lycée Condorcet before being mobilised for the army in 1940. Taken prisoner, he was sent to Stalag VIII-C (in Sagan). He was then sent to the in on 26 June 1940, then to a commando at Auras an der Oder to clear a forest. Even in the worst moments of this ordeal, he kept his special sense of humour. He was repatriated in 1944. He began his career in 1960, thanks to Jacques Vilar, who presented his first major play, "Génousie," at the Théâtre national populaire. This was followed by ''Le Satyre de la Villette'', with André Barsacq at the Théâtre de l'Atelier, a comedy which ranked him with his literary forebears Jacques Audiberti, Ionesco, Beckett. He was, for more than fifty years, one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacqueline De Romilly
Jacqueline Worms de Romilly (; née David, Greek: Ζακλίν ντε Ρομιγύ, 26 March 1913 – 18 December 2010) was a French philologist, classical scholar and fiction writer. She was the first woman nominated to the Collège de France, and in 1988, the second woman to enter the Académie française. She is primarily known for her work on the culture and language of ancient Greece, and in particular on Thucydides. Biography Born in Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, she studied at the Lycée Molière. As a schoolgirl, she became the first female to qualify for a prize in the Concours général, taking the first prize in Latin to French translation and second prize in Ancient Greek in 1930. She then prepared for the École Normale Supérieure at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. She entered the class of 1933 of the ENS Ulm. She passed the ''agrégation'' in Classics in 1936; however, because she was of Jewish ancestry, the Vichy government suspended her from her teaching duties during the O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Louis Curtis
Jean-Louis Curtis (22 May 1917 – 11 November 1995), pseudonym of Albert Laffitte, was a French novelist best known for his second novel '' The Forests of the Night'' (French: ''Les Forêts de la nuit''), which won France's highest literary award the Prix Goncourt in 1947. He is the author of over 30 novels. Life Curtis was born in Orthez, Pyrénées-Atlantiques. He attended the Bordeaux Faculty of Arts after secondary studies in his hometown. He then became a student at the Sorbonne before traveling to England from September 1937 to July 1939. In August 1939, he was mobilized as part of the Air Force from January 1940. He transferred to Morocco in May 1940. At the end of September 1940, he demobilized and returned to France and taught at the lycée de Bayonne. He passed the agrégation exam in English with success in 1943. He then taught as an English professor at the lycée de Laon. In August 1944, he took part in the Corps franc Pommiès, the campaign for the liberation of Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghislain De Diesbach
Ghislain de Diesbach de Belleroche (born 6 August 1931 in Le Havre) is a French writer and biographer. Works *1960: ''Iphigénie en Thuringe : nouvelles'', Julliard, Paris *1962: ''Un joli train de vie'', Julliard *1964: ''Favre de Thierrens, essai biographique'', Émile-Paul, Paris ; Preface by André Bonnefous, 1 vol. in-12, 219 pp. and 26 illustrations hors-texte. *1964: ''Les Secrets du Gotha'', Julliard; reprint at , Paris 2012 *1966: ''George III'', Berger-Levrault; Paris *1969: ''Le Grand Mourzouk'', Julliard; reprint at , Versailles, 2015 *1969: ''Le tour de Jules Verne en quatre-vingts livres'', Julliard; reprint under the title ''Le tour de Jules Verne en 80 livres'', Perrin, 2002, *1972: ''Le Gentilhomme de notre temps : manuel des bonnes manières, nouveau traité de savoir-vivre'', Hachette Littérature, Paris *1972: ''Service de France'', Émile-Paul *1975: ''Histoire de l'émigration : 1789-1814'', Bernard Grasset, Paris, *1978: ''Necker ou la Faillite de la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane De Margerie
Diane Jacquin de Margerie (born 24 December 1927) is a French woman of letters and translator from English. Biography Diane de Margerie is the daughter of Jenny Fabre-Luce (1896–1991) and Roland de Margerie (1899–1990). Her father was the nephew of writer Edmond Rostand and the cousin of Gérard Mante, who married Marcel Proust's niece. Her mother was loved by Austrian writer Rilke. Diane de Margerie is 's sister (1923–2003), a Jesuit and theologian, and Emmanuel de Margerie (1924-1991), ambassador. She first married Prince Ricardo Pignatelli della Leonessa (1927–1985). A son was born in 1952, Fabrizio Pignatelli della Leonessa. She marries in second marriage the writer Dominique Fernandez; the couple had a son, , and a daughter, Laetitia Fernandez. A novelist, literary critic, short story writer, biographer, translator, de Margerie is the author of a diverse work. Once a member of the Prix Femina jury, she has received several awards. She lived in China and Italy. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Moinot
Pierre Moinot (29 March 1920, in Fressines, Deux-Sèvres – 6 March 2007, in Paris) was a French novelist. He was elected to the Académie française on 21 January 1982. Bibliography *''Armes et Bagages, roman'' (1952) *''La Chasse royale, roman'' (1954) - Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française Le Grand Prix du Roman is a French literary award, created in 1914, and given each year by the Académie française. Along with the Prix Goncourt The Prix Goncourt (french: Le prix Goncourt, , ''The Goncourt Prize'') is a prize in French litera ... – ''The Royal Hunt'', tr. Ralph Manheim (1955) *''La Blessure, nouvelles'' (1957) *''Le Voleur, court métrage (adaptation)'' (1960) *''Le Sable vif, roman'' (1964) – ''An Ancient Enemy'', tr. Francis Price (1965) *''Repos à Bacoli, dramatique'' (1966) *''Quand la liberté venait du ciel, série de douze dramatiques ''(1967) *''Héliogabale, théâtre'' (1971) *''La Griffe et la Dent, album animalier'' (1977) *''Maza ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vénus Khoury-Ghata
Vénus Khoury-Ghata (born 1937 in Bsharri, Lebanon) is a French-Lebanese poet and writer. Early life Venus Khoury-Ghata was born into a Maronite family, the daughter of a soldier that spoke French and a mother that was a peasant. She is the older sister of the author May Menassa. In 1959, she won the Miss Beirut Pageant. To escape the war in Lebanon she immigrated to France and married French doctor Jean Ghata, son of Turkish calligrapher Rikkat Kunt and her second husband Fahreddin Ghata. She has lived in Paris since 1972 and has published several novels and collections of poems. Her daughter Yasmine Ghata is also a renowned writer. Career Venus Khoury-Ghata undertook literary studies at L'École Supérieur Des Lettres de Beirut. She published her first literary collection in 1966 and 1967 "''Terres Stagnantes"'', "''Chez Seghers''", and then in 1971 she published her first novel, "''Les Inadaptés''". In 2009, she received the Grand Prix de Poésie of the French Academ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Dulong
Claude Dulong-Sainteny or Marguerite-Claude Badalo-Dulong or Claude Dulong (12 June 1922 in Limoges – 29 October 2017 in Paris) was a French historian. Biography Graduate of the École Nationale des Chartes in 1945, then graduate in literature, she became librarian in particular in the Versailles classified municipal library. She first became interested in the Middle Ages, her research focused thereafter on the 17th century. She married Jean Sainteny and circulated among the gaulliste political circles. In 1953, she took part in a seminar organized in Harvard by Henry Kissinger. This participation with Jean Sainteny provided a link between the American government and Ho Chi Minh for secret negotiations. In 1995, she was elected in the Académie des sciences morales et politiques, in place of Jean Laloy. Claude Dulong has also held positions at the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and at the Alliance Française. Bibliography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Petit
Marc or MARC may refer to: People * Marc (given name), people with the first name * Marc (surname), people with the family name Acronyms * MARC standards, a data format used for library cataloging, * MARC Train, a regional commuter rail system of the State of Maryland, serving Maryland, Washington, D.C., and eastern West Virginia * MARC (archive), a computer-related mailing list archive * M/A/R/C Research, a marketing research and consulting firm * Massachusetts Animal Rights Coalition, a non-profit, volunteer organization * Matador Automatic Radar Control, a guidance system for the Martin MGM-1 Matador cruise missile * Mid-America Regional Council, the Council of Governments and the Metropolitan Planning Organization for the bistate Kansas City region * Midwest Association for Race Cars, a former American stock car racing organization * Revolutionary Agrarian Movement of the Bolivian Peasantry (''Movimiento Agrario Revolucionario del Campesinado Boliviano''), a defunct right-win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
