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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 the month of November, a contemporary author. It works with a rotating jury system. Laureates Prix Wepler * 1998: Florence Delaporte, ''Je n'ai pas de château'' * 1999: Antoine Volodine, ''Des anges mineurs'' * 2000: Laurent Mauvignier, ''Apprendre à finir'' * 2001: Yves Pagès, ''Le Théoriste'' * 2002: Marcel Moreau, ''Corpus Scripti'' * 2003: Éric Chevillard, ''Le Vaillant Petit Tailleur'' * 2004: François Bon, ''Daewoo'' * 2005: Richard Morgiève, ''Vertig'' * 2006: Pavel Hak, ''Trans'' * 2007: Olivia Rosenthal, ''On n'est pas là pour disparaître'' * 2008: Emmanuelle Pagano, ' * 2009: Lyonel Trouillot, ''Yanvalou pour Charlie'' * 2010: Linda Lê, ''Cronos'' * 2011: Éric Laurrent, ''Les Découvertes'' * 2012: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris Place Clichy Wepler Devanture
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelligenc ... [...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] |
Éditions Du Seuil
Éditions du Seuil (), also known as ''Le Seuil'', is a French publishing house established in 1935 by Catholic intellectual Jean Plaquevent (1901–1965), and currently owned by La Martinière Groupe. It owes its name to this goal "The ''seuil'' (threshold) is the whole excitement of parting and arriving. It is also the brand new threshold that we refashion at the door of the Church to allow entry to many whose foot gropes around it" (Jean Plaquevent, letter dated 28 December 1934). Description Éditions du Seuil was the publisher of the ''Don Camillo'' series, and of Chairman Mao Zedong's ''Little Red Book''. The large sales that these generated have allowed the house to publish more specialized titles, particularly in the social sciences. Seuil is widely respected in the publishing world, maintaining good relations with its authors. Seuil has published works by Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes and Philippe Sollers (in his first period), and later by Edgar Morin, Maurice Genevoix ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fayard
Fayard (complete name: ''Librairie Arthème Fayard'') is a French Paris-based publishing house established in 1857. Fayard is controlled by Hachette Livre. In 1999, Éditions Pauvert became part of Fayard. Claude Durand was director of Fayard from 1980 until his retirement in 2009. He was replaced by Olivier Nora, previously head of Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle another division of the Hachette group. On 6 November 2013, Nora was replaced by Sophie de Closets, who officially took over at the beginning of 2014. In December 2009, Hachette Littérature (publisher of the ''Pluriel'' pocket collection) was absorbed by Fayard. Isabelle Seguin, the director of Hachette Littérature, became literary director of Fayard. Imprints Fayard has three imprints: * Editions Mille et Une Nuits * Editions Mazarine * Pauvert Works published Works published by Editions Fayard include: *''Dictionnaire de la France médiévale'' by French historian Jean Favier * ''Les Égarés'' by French writer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thierry Beinstingel
Thierry is a French male given name, derived from the Germanic "Theodoric". It is the cognate of German " Dietrich" and " Dieter", English Terry, Derek and Derrick, and of various forms in other European languages. It is also a surname. People with the given name * Theodoric of Freiberg (c. 1250-c. 1310), also known as Thierry, early Dominican * Thierry of Chartres (died before 1155), French philosopher * Theodoric I, Duke of Upper Lorraine (ruled 978–1027) * Theodoric II, Duke of Lorraine (ruled 1070–1115) * Theuderic II (587–613), king of Burgundy and Austrasia * Thierry, Count of Flanders (c. 1099–1168), also known as Derrick or Thierry of Alsace * Thierry Ambrose (born 1997), French footballer * Thierry Baudet (born 1983), Dutch politician and author * Thierry Boutsen (born 1957), Belgian Formula One race car driver * Thierry Breton (born 1955), European Commissioner for Internal Market, French businessman, former Minister of the Economy * Thierry Brusseau, French track ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stock (publishing House)
Stock is a French publisher, a subsidiary of Hachette Livre, which itself is part of the Lagardère Group. It was founded in the 18th century by André Cailleau, who was succeeded in 1753 by Nicolas-Bonaventure Duchesne, who published Voltaire and Rousseau. At the beginning of the 19th century, the publisher was called "Au Temple du goût". In the middle of the century it changed hands and was eventually bought up by Pierre-Victor Stock, who ran it from 1877 to 1921 and gave it its current name. During the Dreyfus affair, Stock published many essays on the subject, including Dreyfus's own ''Lettres d'un innocent''. In his memoir ''Mémorandum d'un éditeur'', Pierre-Victor Stock estimated that Stock had published around 150 works connected with the Dreyfus affair. In the early 20th century, Stock ran into legal and financial difficulties. It was taken over in 1921 by Maurice Delamain and Jacques Chardonne, who renamed it "Stock, Delamain et Boutelleau". In 1961, Delamain and Char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brigitte Giraud
Brigitte Giraud (born 1960, Sidi-Bel-Abbès in Algeria) is a French writer, author of novels and short stories. Early life Born in 1960, Brigitte Giraud grew up in Rillieux-la-Pape before settling in Lyon. She studied English, German and Arabic. Career Giraud worked as a bookseller, translator and journalist. For her first book ''La chambre des parents'' (1997), she received the "Prix Littéraire des Étudiants" and for ''Nico'' the "Prix Lettres frontière Rhône-Alpes". On 3 November 2022, she was awarded the 2022 Prix Goncourt for ''Vivre vite'', a ''récit'' about the death of her husband Claude in 1999 at the age of 41. She is the thirteenth woman to receive the Goncourt since the prize's establishment in 1903. Giraud won after the jury underwent fourteen rounds of voting, the maximum amount permitted. The final vote ended in stalemate and, in accordance with the rules, the president of the Goncourt Academy cast a deciding vote, selecting Giraud over Giuliano da Empoli's n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Jacques Pauvert
Jean-Jacques Pauvert (8 April 1926 – 27 September 2014) was a French publisher, notable for publishing the work of the Marquis de Sade in the early 1950s and as the first publisher of the '' Story of O'' (1954) and the first edition of Kenneth Anger's ''Hollywood Babylon'' (1959). Pauvert was born in Paris. In addition to his other publications, he published the first French edition of Henry David Thoreau's ''Civil Disobedience Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders or commands of a government (or any other authority). By some definitions, civil disobedience has to be nonviolent to be called "civil". Hen ...'' in 1968. He died, aged 88, in Toulon. References External links * 1926 births 2014 deaths Prix des Deux Magots winners Businesspeople from Paris Lycée Lakanal alumni {{publish-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent De Swarte
Vincent de Swarte (15 June 1963 – 24 April 2006) was a French writer author of varied novels ranging from books for youth (''Le Carrousel des mers'') to crime fictions (''Pharricide''). Biography After studying political science in Bordeaux, he worked more than a decade in advertising. In 1996, he published a first book for young people entitled ''Le Carrousel des mers''. Two years later appeared ''Pharricide'', a novel centered on a lighthouse keeper adept at taxidermy. In 1999, the writer received a special mention of the Prix Wepler for his novel ''Requiem pour un sauvage''. He evokes the Chernobyl disaster in ''Le Paradis existe'' (2001), chronicle of a village in Ukraine. He then tries to autofiction tinged with fantasy in ''Elle et moi'' (2005). He was carried away by cancer at the age of 43. Works *1996: ''Le Carrousel des mers'', littérature jeunesse, Éditions Gallimard *1998: ''Pharricide'', roman, Calmann-Lévy *1999: ''Requiem pour un sauvage'', novel, , Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stéphane Audeguy
Stéphane Audeguy (born 1964 Tours) is a French novelist and essayist. He studied literature at the University of Paris, where he also taught. He served as an assistant professor at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville between 1986 and 1987. He returned to France and now lives in Paris where he teaches art history and film history at a local high school. Awards * Prix Maurice Genevoix from the French Academy, for ''La théorie des nuages'' * Prix des Deux Magots The Prix des Deux Magots is a major French literary prize. It is presented to new works, and is generally awarded to works that are more off-beat and less conventional than those that receive the more mainstream Prix Goncourt. The name derives from ..., for ''Fils Unique'' Works * ''Les monstres : Si loin si proches'', Gallimard, coll. Découvertes Gallimard (n° 520), 2007, * ''La théorie des nuages'' (''The Theory of Clouds'') Translator Timothy Bent * ''Fils Unique'' (''Only Son''). * ''Rom@'' Refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Senges
Pierre Senges (born 1968, Romans-sur-Isère) is a French writer. His work includes nineteen books, numerous essays published in literary journals, and over seventy plays for radio. His books are sometimes noted for having a baroque prose style. They frequently combine erudition, intertextuality, and invention (''Fragments of Lichtenberg'', ''The Major Refutation'') or play on the relation between historically true and fictional elements (''Les carnets de Gordon McGuffin'' and ''Essais fragiles d’aplomb''). About five of Senges's books have been translated and published in English, including ''Fragments of Lichtenberg'', ''Ahab (Sequels)'', ''The Major Refutation'', ''Geometry in the Dust'', and ''Studies of Silhouettes''. Senges' radio plays (''fictions radiophoniques'') have been produced by France Culture and France Inter. He has been the recipient of the following prizes: the Prix Wepler, the Prix SACD Nouveau Talent Radio in 2007, the Grand prix de la fiction radiophonique d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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