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Michel Crépu
image:Michel Crépu 2012.JPG, Michel Crépu In November 2012 during ''Le Masque et la Plume''. Michel Crépu (born 24 August 1954, in Étampes) is a French writer and literary critic as well as the editor-in-chief of ''Nouvelle Revue française'' since 2015. Biography As a journalist, Michel Crépu is a literary critic. He was responsible for the literary pages of the Catholic newspaper ''La Croix (newspaper), La Croix'' before becoming editor in 2002 and then in 2010 the director of the ''Revue des deux Mondes''. He is also a literary critic at ' on France Inter, ' on France Culture and collaborates on a variety of newspapers including the Romanian ''Observator Cultural''. Michel Crépu is also a writer, an essayist and novelist. He has published ''Le Tombeau de Bossuet'' which received the "Prix Femina Vacaresco" now replaced by the prix Femina essai and the Grand prix de la Critique littéraire of the Académie française as well as ', rewarded by the prix des Deux Magots. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Crépu 2012
Michel may refer to: * Michel (name), a given name or surname of French origin (and list of people with the name) * MÃchel (nickname), a nickname (a list of people with the nickname, mainly Spanish footballers) * MÃchel (footballer, born 1963), Spanish former footballer and manager * Michel (TV series), ''Michel'' (TV series), a Korean animated series * German auxiliary cruiser Michel, German auxiliary cruiser ''Michel'' * Michel catalog, a German-language stamp catalog * St. Michael's Church, Hamburg or Michel * Mikkeli, S:t Michel, a Finnish town in Southern Savonia, Finland People * Alain Michel (other), several people * Ambroise Michel (born 1982), French actor, director and writer. * André Michel (director), French film director and screenwriter * André Michel (lawyer), human rights and anti-corruption lawyer and opposition leader in Haiti * Anette Michel (born 1971), Mexican actress * Anneliese Michel (1952 - 1976), German Catholic woman undergone exorcism * Ann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Du Bos
Charles Du Bos (27 October 1882 – 5 August 1939) was a French essayist and critic, known for works including ''Approximations'' (1922–37), a seven-volume collection of essays and letters, and for his ''Journal'', an autobiographical work published posthumously from 1946 to 1961. His other work included ''Byron et le besoin de la fatalité'' (1929), a study of Lord Byron, and ''Dialogue avec André Gide'' (also 1929), an essay on his friend André Gide. Influenced by thinkers including Henri Bergson, Georg Simmel and Friedrich Nietzsche, Du Bos was well-known as a literary critic in France in the 1920s and 1930s. He maintained a distance from the political developments of those decades, while nonetheless seeking in his writing to reframe political phenomena as ethical problems. Alongside Gide and the American novelist Edith Wharton, he was involved in providing aid to Belgian refugees in Paris following the 1914 German invasion of Belgium. Raised Catholic, Du Bos lost his faith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Houellebecq
Michel Houellebecq (; born Michel Thomas, 26 February 1956 or 1958) is a French author, known for his novels, poems and essays, as well as an occasional actor, filmmaker and singer. His first book was a biographical essay on the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Houellebecq published his first novel, '' Whatever'', in 1994. His next novel, ''Atomised'', published in 1998, brought him international fame as well as controversy. ''Platform'' followed in 2001. He has published several books of poetry, including '' The Art of Struggle'' in 1996. An offhand remark about Islam during a publicity tour for his 2001 novel ''Platform'' led to Houellebecq being taken to court for inciting racial hatred (he was eventually cleared of all charges). He subsequently moved to Ireland for several years, before moving back to France, where he currently resides. He was described in 2015 as "France’s biggest literary export and, some say, greatest living writer." In a 2017 DW article he is dubbed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Atelier Du Roman
''L'atelier du roman'' (English: ''Workshop of the Novel'') is a quarterly French literary review founded in Paris in 1993 by the essayist Lakis Proguidis, and currently distributed by Groupe Flammarion and Canadian publisheBoréal Writers whose work has appeared in the magazine include Milan Kundera, Martin Amis, Benoît Duteurtre, Philippe Muray, Fernando Arrabal Fernando Arrabal Terán (born August 11, 1932) is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist, and poet. He was born in Melilla and settled in France in 1955. Regarding his nationality, Arrabal describes himself as "desterrado", ..., and Michel Houellebecq. External links Site de la revueCatalogue de ''La Revue du roman'' sur le site des éditions Flammarion {{DEFAULTSORT:Atelier du Roman 1993 establishments in France French-language magazines Literary magazines published in France Magazines established in 1993 Magazines published in Paris Quarterly magazines published in France ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cioran
Emil Mihai Cioran (, ; 8 April 1911 – 20 June 1995) was a Romanian philosopher, aphorist and essayist, who published works in both Romanian and French. His work has been noted for its pervasive philosophical pessimism, style, and aphorisms. His works frequently engaged with issues of suffering, decay, and nihilism. In 1937, Cioran moved to the Latin Quarter of Paris, which became his permanent residence, wherein he lived in seclusion with his partner, Simone Boué, until his death in 1995. Early life Cioran was born in Resinár, Szeben County, Kingdom of Hungary (today Rășinari, Sibiu County, Romania). His father, Emilian Cioran, was an Orthodox priest, and his mother, Elvira, was the head of the ''Christian Women's League''. At 10, Cioran moved to Sibiu to attend school, and at 17, he was enrolled in the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy at the University of Bucharest, where he met Eugène Ionesco and Mircea Eliade, who became his friends. Future Romanian philosophe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yannick Haenel
Yannick Haenel (born 1967, Rennes) is a French writer, cofounder of the literary magazine '. Biography The son of a soldier, Yannick Haenel studied at the Prytanée National Militaire at La Flèche. From 1997, he codirected the magazine ''Ligne de risque'' with François Meyronnis. Until 2005 he was a teacher of French at lycée La Bruyère in Versailles. He published several novels, including ''Introduction à la mort française'' and ''Évoluer parmi les avalanches'', as well as an essay about the tapestries of ''The Lady and the Unicorn'': ''À mon seul désir''. He also directed two volumes of interviews with Philippe Sollers: ''Ligne de risque'' and ''Poker''. In 2007, he published ''Cercle'' (Éditions Gallimard), a novel which earned him the prix Décembre and the prix Roger Nimier. In 2007, a controversy arose with Alina Reyes who accused him of plagiarism. In 2008-2009, Haenel was a resident at the French Academy in Rome, the Villa Médicis. In 2009, he was aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Lê
Linda Lê (1963 – 9 May 2022) was a French writer. She was a recipient of the Fénéon Prize, the Prix Wepler, the Prix Renaudot du livre de poche, and the Prince Pierre de Monaco literary prize. Biography Lê was born in 1963 in Da Lat to a Vietnamese father and a French mother. Refugees of the Vietnam War, Lê and her mother moved to France in 1977. Her father stayed back in Vietnam and died in 1995. She published her debut novel when she was 23. She was awarded the Fénéon Prize in 1997 for her book ''Les Trois Parques'' and the Prix Wepler The prix Wepler is a French literary award established in 1998 at the initiative of the Abbesses Bookshop, with the support of the La Poste Foundation, and the Brasserie Wepler (Place Clichy, 18th arrondissement of Paris) and which distinguishes, ... in 2010 for ''Cronos''. In 2011, she published 'À l'enfant que je n'aurai pas,' an autofictional letter which won the Prix Renaudot du livre de poche. In 2019, she was awarded the Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Jaccottet
Philippe Jaccottet (; 30 June 1925 – 24 February 2021) was a Swiss Francophone poet and translator. Life and work After completing his studies in Lausanne, he lived for several years in Paris. In 1953, he moved to the town of Grignan in Provence. He has translated numerous authors and poets into French, including Goethe, Hölderlin, Mann, Mandelstam, Góngora, Leopardi, Musil, Rilke, Homer and Ungaretti. He was awarded the German international Petrarca-Preis in 1988 for his poetry. In 2014, Philippe Jaccottet became the fifteenth living author to be published in the prestigious ''Bibliothèque de la Pléiade''. After Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Blaise Cendrars and Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, he was the fourth Swiss author to be published in the ''Bibliothèque de la Pléiade''. Jaccottet died in Grignan, France, in February 2021 at the age of 95. Honours * 1958 Prix des écrivains vaudois * 1966 Johann-Heinrich-Voß-Preis für Übersetzung * 1981 Prix Gottfried Keller * 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Infini
''L'Infini'' (in English ''Infinity'') is a French literary collection and magazine, established in 1983 in Paris by Philippe Sollers as a follow up of the magazine '' Tel Quel''. The magazine was first published by Éditions Denoël and later on by Éditions Gallimard. The magazine has published work by French authors, including its founder, Philippe Sollers, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Julia Kristeva, Marcelin Pleynet, and other notable French writers and young authors such as Marc-Edouard Nabe, Pierre Bourgeade, François Meyronnis, Yannick Haenel, Frédéric Berthet, David di Nota, Clément Rosset, Alexandre Duval-Stalla, Chantal Thomas Chantal Thomas (born 18 October 1945, in Lyon) is a French writer and historian. Her 2002 book, ''Farewell, My Queen'', won the Prix Femina and was adapted into a 2012 film starring Diane Kruger and Léa Seydoux. Career Thomas was born in Lyon ..., Thomas A. Ravier, Cécile Guilbert, Bernard Sichère, Raphaël Denys, and Alessan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arléa
Arléa is a French publishing house created in 1986. Arléa publishes thirty new titles each year, including pocket ones. His catalog contains more than a thousand titles: the great classics of Antiquity (whether Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Sanskrit or Arabic texts), first novels, contemporary translations, travel stories, and history books. Arléa has its own paperback A paperback (softcover, softback) book is one with a thick paper or paperboard cover, and often held together with glue rather than stitches or staples. In contrast, hardcover (hardback) books are bound with cardboard covered with cloth, ... series. External links Official website {{DEFAULTSORT:Arlea LVMH Book publishing companies of France Publishing companies established in 1986 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Steiner
Francis George Steiner, FBA (April 23, 1929 – February 3, 2020) was a Franco-American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist, and educator. He wrote extensively about the relationship between language, literature and society, and the impact of the Holocaust. An article in ''The Guardian'' described Steiner as a "polyglot and polymath". Among his admirers, Steiner is ranked "among the great minds in today's literary world". English novelist A. S. Byatt described him as a "late, late, late Renaissance man ... a European metaphysician with an instinct for the driving ideas of our time". Harriet Harvey-Wood, a former literature director of the British Council, described him as a "magnificent lecturer – prophetic and doom-laden ho wouldturn up with half a page of scribbled notes, and never refer to them". Steiner was Professor of English and Comparative Literature in the University of Geneva (1974–94), Professor of Comparative Literature and Fellow in the University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
éditions Flammarion
Groupe Flammarion () is a French publishing group, comprising many units, including its namesake, founded in 1876 by Ernest Flammarion, as well as units in distribution, sales, printing and bookshops (La Hune and Flammarion Center). Flammarion became part of the Italian media conglomerate RCS MediaGroup in 2000. Éditions Gallimard acquired Flammarion from RCS MediaGroup in 2012. Subsidiaries include Casterman. Its headquarters in Paris are in the building that was the former Café Voltaire (named in honour of the writer and philosopher Voltaire), located on the Place de l'Odeon in the current 6th arrondissement of Paris. Flammarion is a subsidiary of Groupe Madrigall, the third largest French publishing group. History Ernest Flammarion successfully launched his family publishing venture in 1875 with the ''Treaty of Popular Astronomy'' of his brother, the astronomer Camille Flammarion. The firm published Émile Zola, Maupassant, and Jules Renard, as well as Hector Malot, Cole ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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