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Prix Littéraire De La Vocation
The prix littéraire de la vocation, established in 1976 by the fondation Marcel-Bleustein-Blanchet pour la vocation, is intended to help a young French-speaking novelist aged 18 to 30 years. List of laureates *1976: ''Les Régions céréalières'' by Jean-Marc Lovay, Éditions Gallimard (also bourse Cino Del Duca) *1977: ''Une fille pour l'hiver'' by Alain Leblanc, Groupe Flammarion *1978: ''Tristes Banlieues'' by Walter Prevost, Éditions Grasset *1981: ''Saad'' by Alain Blottière, Gallimard *1982: ''Loin d'Aswerda'' by Jean-Marie Laclavetine, Gallimard *1983: L'Exil de Taurus by Paul Le-Jéloux, Obsidiane *1984: ''Poisson d'amour'' by Didier Van Cauwelaert, Éditions du Seuil *1985: ''Bravoure'' by Emmanuel Carrère, *1986: '' La Salle de bain'' by Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Éditions de Minuit *1989: ''Duo forte'' by Éric Holder, Grasset *1992: ''Le Lycée des artistes'' by Jean-Marc Parisis, Grasset *1993: ''Le Sabotage amoureux'' by Amélie Nothomb, Albin Michel *1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Éric Holder
Éric Holder (5 April 1960 – 22 January 2019) was a French novelist. His novels, ''Mademoiselle Chambon'', '' L'Homme de chevet'' and ' were adapted to the cinema in 2009 and 2012. He was awarded several literary prizes, including the Prix littéraire de la vocation (1989), the Prix Fénéon (1989), the Prix Thyde Monnier (1989), the Prix Décembre (1994), the Prix Roger Nimier (1996), and the Prix Service Littéraire (2008). He died on 23 January 2019, aged 58. Works *1984: ''Nouvelles du Nord'', *1985: ''Manfred ou l'hésitation,'' Éditions du Seuil *1989: ''Duo forte'', Grasset, 1989 (Prix Fénéon, Prix littéraire de la vocation, Prix Thyde Monnier). *1993: ''L'Ange de Bénarès'', Flammarion *1994: ''Bruits de cœurs'', Les Silènes *1994: ''La Belle Jardinière'', Prix Décembre. *1995: ''L'Homme de chevet'', Flammarion *1995: ''La Tolérance'', illustrations by Jean-Marie Queneau, éditions de la Goulotte *1996: ''Deux Poèmes'', illustrations by Jean-Marie Queneau, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salim Bachi
Salim Bachi (born 1971, Algiers) is an Algerian novelist who grew up in Annaba, eastern Algeria. After a one-year stay in Paris in 1995, he returned there in 1997 to study literature. A pensioner at the French Academy in Rome in 2005, he now lives and works in Paris. Biography Born in 1971 in Algiers, he studied literature in Paris at the Sorbonne and in 2001 published his first novel, ''Le Chien d'Ulysse'', at Éditions Gallimard, hailed by critics and rewarded by the prix Goncourt du premier roman. In Algeria he became "the most talented writer of his generation", embarking on an ambitious literary work on Algeria, its history, from colonization to the most recent black episodes, marked by Islamist terrorism. His first two novels are part of a novel cycle developed from an imaginary city, the ancient Cyrtha. After a year of residence at the prestigious Villa Médicis in Rome, his third novel, ''Tuez-les tous'' ("Kill them all"), marked a turning point in his inspiration with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Berton
Benjamin Berton in 2014. Benjamin Berton (born 1974, Valenciennes) is a French writer. Biography Benjamin Berton graduated from the Institut d’études politiques de Paris and received a D.E.A. in social and cultural history. ''Sauvageons'', a chronicle of the lives of northern teenagers in need of reference points, won the prix Goncourt du premier roman in 2000 as well as the Prix littéraire de la vocation the same year. He lives in Le Mans Le Mans (, ) is a city in northwestern France on the Sarthe River where it meets the Huisne. Traditionally the capital of the province of Maine, it is now the capital of the Sarthe department and the seat of the Roman Catholic diocese of Le Man ..., where the action of ''La Chambre à remonter le temps'' takes place. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Éditions Du Rocher
The Éditions du Rocher is a publishing house based in Monaco Monaco (; ), officially the Principality of Monaco (french: Principauté de Monaco; Ligurian: ; oc, Principat de Mónegue), is a sovereign city-state and microstate on the French Riviera a few kilometres west of the Italian region of Lig .... It publishes works of literature as well as books about current affairs and well-being. It was founded by Charles Orengo in 1943. It was sold to Éditions Privat in 2005, Éditions Desclée de Brouwer in 2009, and Éditions Artège in 2014. Further reading * References Publishing companies of Monaco Publishing companies established in 1943 1943 establishments in Monaco {{Monaco-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shan Sa
Shan Sa is the pseudonym of Yan Ni (born October 26, 1972, in Beijing, China), a French author and painter. ''The Girl Who Played Go'' was the first of her novels to be published outside France, and won the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens (a prize voted by secondary school students). Her second novel to appear in English translation was ''Empress'' (2006). She was awarded chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in July 2009 and chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite in May 2011. Shan Sa is also a painter with exhibitions in Paris, New York, and Shanghai. Biography Shan Sa was born as Yan Ni in Beijing, China, to a scholarly family. She adopted the pseudonym Shan Sa from a poem by the Tang dynasty poet Bai Juyi. At age 8, she published her first poetry collection, and went on to obtain the first prize in the national poetry contest for children under 12 years, an event that created a public upheaval. After graduating from secondary school in Beijing, she moved to Paris in A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominique Mainard
Dominique Mainard is a French translator of English novels, short story writer and novelist. She was born in Paris, France, in 1967 and grew up in the region of Lyon, and spent five years in the United States. She won the 2009 Prix des Libraires (Booksellers Prize) for her novel ''Pour vous'' (''For You''). Mainard spent 2005 - 2006 as a resident of the Randell Cottage Writers' Trust in Wellington, New Zealand. Her book ''Leur histoire'' was adapted for the 2005 film '' Les Mots bleus'' by director Alain Corneau with actors Sergi López and Sylvie Testud. Works ;Translations English novels, including authors John Cheever and Janet Frame Janet Paterson Frame (28 August 1924 – 29 January 2004) was a New Zealand author. She was internationally renowned for her work, which included novels, short stories, poetry, juvenile fiction, and an autobiography, and received numerous awar ... ;Collections of short stories *''Le Grenadier'' (1997), Gallimard *''La Maison des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Bello
Antoine Bello (born 25 March 1970) is a French-American author born in Boston, Massachusetts, whose works have been widely translated. His novels touch on multiple subjects, such as the relation between reality and fiction, human cognition and journalism. He writes in French, his native tongue. He has been living in the greater New York Area since 2002. Work Bello's first book, ''Les Funambules'' (), a collection of short stories, was published in France in 1996. It received the Prix littéraire de la vocation awarded by the Fondation Bleustein-Blanchet. One of the short stories included in ''Les Funambules'' had received the Prix du jeune écrivain de langue française in 1993. Since then, Bello's has published nine novels, which have been translated into a dozen languages, such as German, Russian, Greek and Japanese. Six of them are available in English : ''The Falsifiers'' (Kindle Edition, 2015), ''The Pathfinders'' (Kindle Edition, 2016), ''The Showrunners'' (Kindle Editi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |