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Prix Amerigo Vespucci
The prix Amerigo-Vespucci is a French literary award established in 1990, during the first (IFG) at Saint-Dié-des-Vosges. It rewards works on the theme of adventure and travel and refers to the Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci. Featuring 2500 euros (in 2014), it is traditionally awarded at the inauguration of the Book Fair. An Amerigo Vespucci Youth Award is also presented. Laureates of prix Amerigo Vespucci * 1990: Claude Leborgne, ''La Prison nomade'' (François Bourin) * 1991: Pierre-Jean Rémy, ''Chine'' (Albin Michel) * 1992: Anka Muhlstein, ''Cavelier de la Salle'' (Éditions Grasset) * 1993: Liliane Sichler, ''La Chinoise du Pacific Railway'' (Grasset) * 1994: Michel Marty, ''L'Île rouge'' Éditions Phébus * 1995: Isabelle Jarry, ''23 Lettres d'Amérique'' (Fayard) * 1996: Yves Ouahnon, ''Le Calendrier de Cordoue'' (Éditions Autrement) * 1997: Éric Fottorino, ''Cœur d'Afrique'' (Stock) * 1998: Gisèle Pineau, ''L'Âme prêtée aux oiseaux'' (Stock) * 1999: Gille ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Award
A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. Many awards are structured with one organization (usually a non-profit organization) as the presenter and public face of the award, and another organization as the financial sponsor or backer, who pays the prize remuneration and the cost of the ceremony and public relations, typically a corporate sponsor who may sometimes attach their name to the award (such as the Orange Prize). Types of awards There are awards for various writing formats including poetry and novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing (such as science fiction or politics). There are also awards dedicated to works in individual languages, such as the Miguel de Cervantes Prize (Spanish), the Camões Prize (Portuguese), the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France Huser
France Huser is a French novelist and art critic who lives and works in Paris. Biography France Huser was an art critic at the Nouvel Observateur for many years. Her first novel, ''La maison du désir'', "the book of feelings", won her critical and popular success.She appeared on the French television program Apostrophes in January 1983 with Françoise Dolto. See thINA archives She is the author of eleven novels including ''Aurélia'', ''La colline rouge'', and ''Le murmure des sables'' published by Editions du Seuil, and ''La fille à lèvre d'orange'', ''La triche'' and ''La peau seulement'' published by Gallimard. France Huser was awarded the Amerigo Vespucci prize in 2004 for her novel ''Le murmure des sables''. Novels *1982: ''La maison du désir'', Paris, Éditions du Seuil, *1984: ''Aurélia'', Le Seuil, *1986: ''La chambre ouverte'', Le Seuil, *1988: ''Les lèvres nues'', Le Seuil, *1992: ''La colline rouge'', Le Seuil, *1993: ''Charlotte Corday ou l'Ange de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Éditions De Minuit
Les Éditions de Minuit (, ''Midnight Press'') is a French publishing house. It was founded in 1941, during the French Resistance of World War II, and is still publishing books today. History Les Éditions de Minuit was founded by writer and illustrator Jean Bruller and writer Pierre de Lescure (1891–1963) in 1941 in Paris, during the German occupation of northern France (by November 1942, German forces occupied all of France). At the time, the media and all forms of publishing were controlled and censored by the Nazi occupiers. ''Les Éditions de Minuit'' was started to circumvent the censorship. It was an underground publisher until the liberation of Paris on 25 August 1944. ''Le Silence de la mer'' ''(The Silence of the Sea)'' (1942) by co-founder Bruller (who wrote under the pseudonym Vercors) was the first book published. Distribution, as with other Resistance texts, was based on being passed from person to person. ''Le Silence de la mer'' was followed in 1943 by '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurent Mauvignier
Laurent Mauvignier (born in 1967, Tours) is a French writer. Biography After studying visual arts at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Laurent Mauvignier decided to become a writer in the 1990s following the advice of Tanguy Viel, a friend and novelist. To date, he published all his works at the éditions de Minuit, where along with Jean Echenoz, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Marie NDiaye or Éric Chevillard, Laurent Mauvignier is associated with the so-called « Style es éditions deMinuit ». Works Novels *''Loin d'eux'', éditions de Minuit, 1999, – Prix Fénéon 2000 *''Apprendre à finir'', éditions de Minuit, 2000, – Prix Wepler 2001; Inter Book Prize 2001 *''Ceux d'à côté'', éditions de Minuit, 2002, *''Plus sale, Inventaire-invention'', 2002, *''Seuls'', éditions de Minuit, 2004, *''Le Lien'', éditions de Minuit, 2005, *''Dans la foule'', éditions de Minuit, 2006, – Prix du roman Fnac 2006 *''Des hommes'', éditions de Minuit, 2009, – Pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glénat Editions
Glénat Editions SA is a French publisher with its head office in Grenoble. Their products include comic albums and manga in France, Benelux, and in the past Spain; it was founded by Jacques Glénat. The Benelux subsidiary, Glénat Benelux N.V., is located in Brussels, Belgium. The Switzerland subsidiary, Glénat Editions (Suisse) SA, has its headquarters in Nyon. The Spanish subsidiary had its head office in Barcelona. History Jacques Glénat started his comics fanzine ''Schtroumpf'' (the French, original, title of ''The Smurfs'') in 1969, when he was still a student. In 1972, only twenty years old, he established his own publishing house, Glénat. The first two books were by Claude Serre and by Claire Bretécher. Two years later, he already received the award for best publisher at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. To support the rapid growth, the company opened warehouses in Orly near Paris, and a flagship store in Paris. A new comics magazine, ''Circus'', first app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Éditions Gallimard
Éditions Gallimard (), formerly Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française (1911–1919) and Librairie Gallimard (1919–1961), is one of the leading French book publishers. In 2003 it and its subsidiaries published 1,418 titles. Founded by Gaston Gallimard in 1911, the publisher is now majority-owned by his grandson Antoine Gallimard. Éditions Gallimard is a subsidiary of Groupe Madrigall, the third largest French publishing group. History The publisher was founded on 31 May 1911 in Paris by Gaston Gallimard, André Gide, and Jean Schlumberger as ''Les Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française'' (NRF). From its 31 May 1911 founding until June 1919, Nouvelle Revue Française published one hundred titles including ''La Jeune Parque'' by Paul Valéry. NRF published the second volume of '' In Search of Lost Time'', In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, which became the first Prix Goncourt-awarded book published by the company. Nouvelle Revue Française adopted the name "Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Garde
François Garde (born 1959 in Le Cannet, Alpes-Maritimes) is a French writer and high-ranking official Administrative career * Graduated in 1984 of the ENA (class Louise Michel), * Deputy Secretary-General of New Caledonia from 1991 to 1993 * Administrator-Superior of French Southern and Antarctic Lands (from 25 May 2000 to 19 December 2004) * Secretary-General of the Government of New-Caledonia, August 2009 – August 2010, * Vice-President of the Administrative court at Dijon, then Grenoble. Works Garde began to write at the age of over forty years and since 2003 has published various books and two novels. Essays *2003: ''Les Institutions de la Nouvelle-Calédonie''., *2006: ''Paul-Émile Victor et la France de l'Antarctique''., *2015: ''La Baleine dans tous ses états''. Novels *2012: '. ** prix Goncourt du premier roman 2012 ** grand prix Jean-Giono 2012. ** prix littéraire des grands espaces Maurice Dousset 2012 ** prix Hortense Dufour 2012. ** prix Edmée de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Groupe 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] |
Olivier Weber
Olivier Weber (born 1958) is a French writer, novelist and reporter at large, known primarily for his coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has been a war correspondent for twenty-five years, especially in Central Asia, Africa, Middle-East and Iraq. He is an assistant professor at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris, president of the Prize Joseph Kessel and today ambassador of France at large. Weber has won several national and international awards of literature and journalism, in particular for his stories on Afghanistan and for his books on wars. His novels, travels writing books and essays have been translated in a dozen of languages. Biography Weber, born in 1958 in Montluçon, studied economics and anthropology at the University of San Francisco, University of Paris Sorbonne, University of Nice (PhD) and at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, INALCO). He won the Albert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Boris
Hugo Boris (born 18 November 1979 in Paris), is a French writer. Biography Born in 1979, Boris is graduated from the Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux and the École nationale supérieure Louis-Lumière. In 2003, his short story ''N'oublie pas de montrer ma tête au peuple'', published by Mercure de France, earned him the prix du jeune écrivain. His first novel, ''Le Baiser dans la nuque'' (The kiss in the neck), was published by Éditions Belfond in 2005. The book, which describes the meeting of a piano teacher with a deaf midwife, was rewarded by the Festival of the first novel of Chambéry and by the Prix Emmanuel Roblès. The book met a critical and public success which made it one of the events of the literary season. ''Télérama'' evoked a novel "light as a song, dark as a requiem", of a writing which "always leaves the emotion pass, the poetry, without sentimentality", a text which goes "against the publications of the literary season that trumpet and storm" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabelle Autissier
Isabelle Autissier (born 18 October 1956) is a French sailor, navigator, writer, and broadcaster. She is celebrated for being the first woman to have completed a solo world navigation in competition ( BOC Challenge 1990–91). Based in La Rochelle since 1980, she is also a writer and honorary president of WWF-France. Childhood and early career Isabelle Autissier was born in the 12th arrondissement of Paris and later moved to the suburb of Saint-Maur-les-Fossés. She discovered sailing in Brittany from the age of six when her father, architect Jean Autissier, taught her and her sisters how to sail. She later graduated from the National Agronomy School of Rennes ('' École nationale supérieure agronomique de Rennes'') with a degree in fisheries. In 1980, she carried out research on langoustines and large crustaceans. This research activity continued in La Rochelle under the aegis of IFREMER ('French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea'), where she studied the fish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrice Pluyette
Patrice Pluyette (born 5 September 1977 in Chevreuse) is a French writer. Biography After studying modern letters at the Sorbonne and a master's degree on Eugène Ionesco (''Le Merveilleux dans l’œuvre théâtrale de Ionesco''), Pluyette interrupted the competitions for teaching in 2002 and devoted himself to writing. In 2004, he chose to settle down by the sea in Morbihan. After a collection of poetry published in 2001, ''Décidément rien'' (Éditions-Galerie Racine), he published two novels or narratives very favourably noticed at Maurice Nadeau: ' (2004) and ' (2005). He subsequently published three novels at Éditions du Seuil: ' (2006), ' (2008) nominated for the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Médicis, and ''Un été sur le Magnifique'' ( 2011). In October 2008, the bestowed him the Prix Amerigo Vespucci for his novel ''La Traversée du Mozambique par temps calme''. In November 2008, he was awarded the Prix Pierre-Mac Orlan, chaired by Pierre Bergé, for the same nov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
