Prix Littéraire Valery Larbaud
The Prix Valery Larbaud is a French literary prize created in 1967, ten years after writer Valery Larbaud's death, by ''L'Association Internationale des Amis de Valery Larbaud'', an organization dedicated to the promotion of his works. The prize is awarded to writers of books the jurists feel "that Larbaud would have loved". It is always awarded in Vichy on the last weekend in May. Prize winners Winners: * 1967 – Michel Dard, ''Mélusine'' * 1968 – Robert Levesque, ''Les Bains d'Estramadure'' * 1969 – Claude Roy, ''Le verbe Aimer et autres essais'' * 1970 – Henri Thomas, ''La Relique'' * 1971 – Guy Rohou, ''Le Bateau des Iles'' * 1972 – J.M.G. Le Clézio and Frida Weissman for all their works * 1973 – Georges Perros, ''Papiers collés I, II'' * 1974 – Pierre Leyris, for translations of William Blake's works * 1975 – Muriel Cerf, ''Le Diable vert'' * 1976 – Marcel Thiry, ''Toi qui pâlis au nom de Vancouver'' * 1977 – Jean Blot, ''Les Cosmopolites'' and Fran� ...
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Literary Prize
A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded Literature, 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 Sponsor (commercial), 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 languag ...
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Christian Giudicelli
Christian Giudicelli (27 June 1942 – 14 May 2022) was a French novelist and literary critic. His seventh novel, ''Station balnéaire'', was awarded the 1986 Prix Renaudot. Guidicelli was one of the eight jury members of the French literary award Prix Contrepoint. Biography Giudicelli was born in Nîmes. He was a jury member of the Renaudot French literary prize since 1993. He contributed to literary publications including, ''La Nouvelle Revue française'', ''Combat'', ''Cahiers des saisons'', ''La Quinzaine littéraire'', ''Le Figaro Magazine'', ''Écrivain magazine'', as well as literary programs on France Culture. His writing is intimate, sensitive and melancholy; he draws the material for his novels and stories from his own experiences, travels, and friendships. He lived in Paris since the early 1960s. However, his works are largely unread; his last book, in 2019, sold only 180 copies. His close friendship with writer and accused paedophile Gabriel Matzneff is mentio ...
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Jean-Noël Pancrazi
Jean-Noël Pancrazi (born 28 April 1949 in Sétif, Algeria) is a French author. Biography Early years Jean-Noël Pancrazi spent the first ten years of his life in Algeria with his parents and his sister. His childhood years during the Algerian war had a significant influence on his literary work,. He arrived in France in 1962 and went to secondary school in Perpignan, his mother’s birthplace. He went to Paris to study at the famous Lycée Louis-le-Grand then studied literature at the Sorbonne. In 1972 he received a degree in French Language and Literature. His first published work was an essay on Mallarmé published in 1973. During the 1970s he worked as a French professor at a high school in Massy. Literary career His first novel, ''La Mémoire brûlée'' came out in 1979 published by Éditions du Seuil. He then wrote ''Lalibela ou la mort nomade'' (1981), ''L'Heure des adieux'' (1985) and ''Le Passage des princes'' (1988). His following novel, ''Les Quartiers d'hiver'' ...
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Olivier Germain-Thomas
Olivier is the French form of the given name Oliver. It may refer to: * Olivier (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Olivier (surname), a list of people * Château Olivier, a Bordeaux winery *Olivier, Louisiana, a rural populated place in the United States * Olivier (crater), on the Moon * Olivier salad, a popular dish of Russian cuisine * ''Olivier'' (novel), the first published novel by French author Claire de Duras * The Olivier Theatre (named after the actor Laurence Olivier), one of three auditoria at the Royal National Theatre * The Laurence Olivier Awards, a theatrical award * Olivier (comics), a foe of The Punisher See also * ''Olivier, Olivier ''Olivier, Olivier'' is a 1992 drama film directed by Agnieszka Holland. It entered the competition at the 49th Venice International Film Festival and won an award at the 1992 Valladolid International Film Festival. The plot involves a nine-year-o ...

Nicolas Bréhal
Nicolas Bréhal (Gérald Solnitzki) (6 December 1952 Paris – 31 May 1999 Levallois-Perret) was a French novelist and literary critic. He was literary director at the ''Mercure de France'' and literary critic at ''Le Monde'' and ''Le Figaro''. He won the Prix Valery Larbaud and Grand prix des lectrices de Elle in 1992, for ''Sonate au clair de Lune''. He won the 1993 Prix Renaudot The Prix Théophraste-Renaudot or Prix Renaudot () is a French literary award. History The prize was created in 1926 by ten art critics awaiting the results of deliberation of the jury of the Prix Goncourt. While not officially related to the ..., for ''Les Corps célestes''. Works *''Les Étangs de Woodfield'', Mercure de France, 1978 *''Portrait de femme, l'automne: roman'', Mercure de France, 1980 *''La Pâleur et le Sang'', 1983; French & European Publications, Incorporated, 1988, *''L'Enfant au souffle coupé'', Gallimard, 1989, *''Neiges: pièce en quatre actes'', Mercure de France, 199 ...
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Frédéric Vitoux (writer)
Frédéric Vitoux (born 19 August 1944) is a French writer and journalist. He is known as a novelist, biographer and literary columnist. His father was a journalist. He was elected at the Académie Française in 2001. In 2010, he won the Édouard Drumont literary prize for his novel ''Grand Hotel Nelson''. Bibliography *1973 ''Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Misère et parole'' (Éditions Gallimard) *1973 ''Cartes postales'' (Gallimard) *1976 ''Les Cercles de l'orage'' (Grasset) *1976 ''Bébert, le chat de Louis-Ferdinand Céline'' (Grasset) *1978 ''Yedda jusqu'à la fin'' (Grasset) *1978 ''Céline Céline, sometimes spelled Celine, is a French female first name of Latin origin, coming from ''Caelīna'', the feminine form of the Roman cognomen ''Caelīnus'', meaning "heavenly".

Frédéric Jacques Temple
Frédéric Jacques Temple (18 August 1921 – 5 August 2020) was a French poet and writer. His work includes poems (collected in 1989 in a "Personal Anthology"), novels, travel stories and essays. He also realised translations of English, Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, and Lawrence Durrell. Biography Frédéric Jacques Temple was born in Montpellier, where he was a boarder at the college of the Enclos Saint-François; there, he said, "music and art counted as much as studies". He celebrated this school, now disappeared, in ''L'Enclos''. From 1943 he participated in the Italian campaign (Les Abruzzes, Monte Cassino, le Garigliano) with the French Expeditionary Corps of general Juin. From this experience of war, which profoundly marked it, testifies a narrative like ''La Route de San Romano'' and his ''Poèmes de guerre''. Demobilized, he became a journalist in Morocco and then in Montpellier. In 1954, he was appointed Director of French Television Broadcasting ( ...
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Jean Rolin (writer)
Jean Philippe Rolin (born June 14, 1949, Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French writer and journalist. He received the Albert Londres Prize for journalism in 1988, and his novel ''L'organisation'' received the Medicis award in 1996. His brother Olivier Rolin is also a writer. As students, Rolin and his brother participated in the May 1968 uprising. Bibliography * ''Journal de Gand aux Aléoutiennes'' (Roger Nimier Prize The Roger Nimier Prize () is a French literature award. It is supposed to go to "a young author whose spirit is in line with the literary works of Roger Nimier". Nimier (1925–1962) was a novelist and a leading member of the Hussards movement. The ... 1982) * ''L'Or du scaphandrier'', 1983 * ''Vu sur la mer'', 1986 * ''La Ligne de Front'' (Prix Albert Londres 1988) * ''La Frontière belge'', 1989 * ''Chemins d'eau'', 1992 * ''Cyrille et Méthode'', 1994 * ''Joséphine'', 1994 * ''Zones'', 1995 * ''L'Organisation'' (Prix Médicis 1996) * ''Traverses'', 1999 * ''Camp ...
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Jean-Marie Laclavetine
Jean-Marie Laclavetine (born February 17, 1954 in Bordeaux Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefectur ...) is a French editor, writer and translator of Italian language, Italian literature into French. Biography Jean-Marie Laclavetine was born in 1954 in Bordeaux. At the age of twenty-six he published his first novel, ''Les Emmurés'', for which he received the literary award Prix Fénéon in 1981. Since 1989 he has been a member of the Éditions Gallimard publishing house Comité de Lecture. He translated the Italian authors Alberto Savinio, Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, Leonardo Sciascia, Vitaliano Brancati and Alberto Moravia into French. Laclavetine lives in Tours, France. Works * ''Les emmurés'', Gallimard, 1981 (Prix Fénéon) * ''La Maison des absences'', Gallimard, 19 ...
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Emmanuel Carrère
Emmanuel Carrère (born 9 December 1957) is a French author, screenwriter and film director. Life Family Carrère was born into a wealthy family in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. His father, Louis Carrère d'Encausse, is a retired insurance executive. His mother, historian Hélène Carrère d'Encausse (born Hélène Zourabichvili, the daughter of Georgian émigrés), is a member and perpetual secretary of the Académie française and former member of the European Parliament. She is a cousin of Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili. Carrère has two sisters: Nathalie Carrère, a lawyer, and Marina Carrère d'Encausse, a doctor, TV Presenter and novelist. He is the nephew of composer Nicolas Zourabichvili and cousin of philosopher François Zourabichvili. Studies Carrère studied at the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly and Sciences Po (the Paris Institute of Political Studies). Career As an alternative to military service, Carrère taught French for two years in Surabaya ...
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René De Ceccatty
René de Ceccatty (born 1 January 1952 in Tunis) is a French writer, translator and editor. He has written about 30 novels and biographies and translated works from Italian and Japanese. His 1994 work, ''Violette Leduc, éloge de la bâtarde'' provided a basis for Martin Provost's 2013 film '' Violette'', for which de Ceccatty co-wrote the screen-play. Biography De Ceccatty's work focuses on novels and drama pieces. He also translates from Italian and (collaborating with Ryôji Nakamura), Japanese. He has a deep knowledge of the works of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Violette Leduc, Alberto Moravia and of modern Italian and Japanese literature more generally. His book L'Accompagnement found a particular resonance: It is in effect a novelist's work of poetic introspection, in the tradition of earlier writers such as Hector Bianciotti, Jean Rhys, and Japanese novelist Natsume Sōseki. His novels "Aimer" (''"To love"'' 1998), "Consolation provisoire" (''"Provisional Consolation"'' 1996), " ...
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Bernard Delvaille
Bernard Delvaille (1 December 1931 – 18 April 2006) was a French poet, essayist, translator and anthologist. A graduate from the Institut d’Études Politiques, he entered the publishing business in the early 1950s as a reader for Éditions Denoël, before collaborating with in 1956, where he did various editorial work. From 1962 on, he worked with Pierre Seghers on the collection "Poètes d'aujourd'hui" until Robert Laffont bought the editions in 1969. He then managed the collection until 1989. His involvement in publishing was reinforced by his participation in the Centre national des Lettres from 1975 to 1983 in the commissions "Poésie" and "Revue". His literary knowledge led him to become a literary critic and give lectures for the Alliance Française, Alliances Françaises and in several universities like Brussels, Lisbon, Rome or Toronto. In addition to these oratorical exercises, he was the author of numerous articles in magazines such as ''Combat (newspaper), Combat'' ...
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