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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 the extant Parisian café "Les Deux Magots", which began as a drapery store in 1813, taking its name from a popular play of the time, "The two figurines of China". It housed a wine merchant in the 19th century, and was refurbished in 1914 into a café. Winners *1933: Raymond Queneau ''Le Chiendent'' *1934: Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes ''Monsieur Jean ou l'Amour absolu'' *1935: Jacques Baron ''Charbon de Mer'' *1936: Michel Matveev ''Étrange Famille'' *1937: Georges Pillement ''Plaisir d'Amour'' *1938: Pierre Jean Launay ''Léonie la Bienheureuse'' *1941: J. M. Aimot ''Nos mitrailleuses n'ont pas tiré'' *1942: Olivier Séchan ''Les Corps ont soif'' *1944: Jean Milo '' L'Esprit de famille'' *1946: Jean Loubes ''Le Regret de P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Prize
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] |
Christian Coffinet
Christian Coffinet (born 1923) is a 20th-century French journalist, novelist, and screenwriter, winner of the prix des Deux Magots in 1949. Christian Coffinet adapted some of his novels for cinema, particularly ''La Fille de proie'' for the film ' (1958) by Guy Lefranc. Works *1948: ''Les Voyous'', éditions du Pavois *1948: ''Autour de Chérubine'', éditions Fournier-Valdè — prix des Deux Magots 1949 *1949: ''Le Quatrième Commandement'', éditions Fournier-Valdès *1949: ''Merveilleuse'', éditions du Pavois *1949: ''Sale Coin'', éditions Fournier-Valdès *1953: ''La Fille de proie'', *1955: ''Les Jeux de mains'', éditions du Scorpion *1955: ''Les Propositions malhonnêtes'', éditions du Scorpion *1956: ''La Poudre aux yeux'', éditions du Scorpion *1974: ''Le Détonateur'', 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 be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Jourdan
Bernard Jourdan (1 February 1918 – 18 August 2003) was a 20th-century French writer. In 1961, his novel ' published in 1960 by Fayard earned him the 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 .... Selected works *1957: ''La Graine au vent'' *1961: ''Saint-Picoussin'' *1963: ''Douleur d'airain'' *1988: ''Monologue de l'an'' *1992: ''Dix-sept élégies'' *1998: ''L'Hiver qui vient'', poèmes External links Bernard Jourdanon Babelio {{DEFAULTSORT:Jourdan, Bernard 20th-century French novelists Prix des Deux Magots winners People from Var (department) 1918 births 2003 deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri-François Rey
Henri-François Rey (July 31, 1919 in Toulouse - July 22, 1987 in Paris) was a French writer, dramaturge and screenwriter. His book ''La Fête espagnole'' (''The Spanish party'') won the 1959 Prix des Deux Magots. His best-known work, ''Les Pianos mécaniques'' (''Mechanical pianos'') won the Interallié prize in 1962, and was adapted to film by Juan Antonio Bardem Juan Antonio Bardem Muñoz (2 June 1922 – 30 October 2002) was a Spanish film director and screen writer, born in Madrid. He was a member of the Communist Party. Bardem was best known for '' Muerte de un ciclista'' (1955) which won the FIPRE ... in 1965 as '' The Uninhibited''. Works *''La Fête espagnole'' (1958) *''La comédie'' (1960) *''Les Pianos mécaniques'' (1962) *''Les Chevaux masqués'' (1965) *''Le Rachdingue'' (1967) *''Halleluyah ma vie'' (1970) *''Le Barbare'' (1972) *''Schizophrénie, ma soeur'' (1973) *''Dali dans son labyrinthe'' (1974) *''La parodie'' (1980) *''Feu le palais d'hiver'' (1981) *'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Cournot
Michel Cournot (1 May 1922 – 8 February 2007) was a French journalist, screenwriter and film director. As a writer he was awarded the Fénéon Prize in 1949 for ''Martinique''. His only film as a director, '' Les Gauloises bleues'', was due to be entered at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled because of the events of May 1968 in France. He received a Genie Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the 10th Genie Awards in 1989, as cowriter with Claude Fournier and Marie-José Raymond of the Canadian television miniseries ''The Mills of Power (Les Tisserands du pouvoir)''."Genie award nominees: complete list". ''Vancouver Sun The ''Vancouver Sun'', also known as the ''Sun'', is a daily broadsheet newspaper based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The newspaper is currently published by the Pacific Newspaper Group, a division of Postmedia Network. Published s ...'', February 14, 1989. Selected filmography * '' Les Gauloises ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Hardy
René Hardy (31 October 1911 – 12 April 1987) was a member of the French Resistance during World War II. Hardy was born in Mortrée, Orne. In spite of having rendered dedicated and valuable service as a member of the resistance group, Combat (French Resistance), he was still suspected of being instrumental in the arrest of Jean Moulin, General Charles Delestraint and other members of the resistance. Despite later being acquitted in 2 separate trials, those suspicions never went away. Treason In January 1943 Hardy was seduced by the 20-year-old Lydie Bastien, described by one journalist as a great "French beauty" whose true loyalty was to her German lover, Gestapo officer Harry Stengritt. Hardy was arrested on 7 June 1943 when he walked into a trap laid by Bastien. Bastien, a devotee of the occult and the philosophy of Frederich Nietzsche, had taken Stengritt as her lover and was paid for her work for the Gestapo in the form of gems that Stengritt had confiscated from French J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Story Of O
''Story of O'' (french: Histoire d'O, link=no, ) is an erotic novel published in 1954 by French author Anne Desclos under the pen name Pauline Réage, and published in French by Jean-Jacques Pauvert. Desclos did not reveal herself as the author for 40 years after the initial publication. Desclos stated she wrote the novel as a series of love letters to her lover Jean Paulhan, who had admired the work of the Marquis de Sade. The novel shares with the latter themes such as love, dominance, and submission. Plot ''Story of O'' is a tale of female submission involving a beautiful Parisian fashion photographer named O, who is taught to be constantly available for oral, vaginal, and anal intercourse, offering herself to any male who belongs to the same secret society as her lover. She is regularly stripped, blindfolded, chained, and whipped; her anus is widened by increasingly large plugs; her labium is pierced and her buttocks are branded. The story begins when O's lover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Réage
Anne Cécile Desclos (23 September 1907 – 27 April 1998) was a French journalist and novelist who wrote under the pen names Dominique Aury and Pauline Réage. She is best known for her erotic novel '' Story of O'' (1954). Early life Born in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France to a bilingual family, Desclos began reading in French and English at an early age. After completing her studies at the Sorbonne, she worked as a journalist until 1946 when she joined Gallimard Publishers as the editorial secretary for one of its imprints where she began using the pen name of Dominique Aury. An avid reader of English literature, Desclos either translated or introduced to readers in France such renowned authors as Algernon Charles Swinburne, Evelyn Waugh, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and numerous others. She became a critic and was made a member of the jury for several prominent literary awards. Career Desclos' lover and employer Jean Paulhan, a fervent ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Cariguel
Claude Cariguel (born 1931, Paris) is a French writer and novelist. His novel ''S'' was published in 1953 by Flammarion and received the 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 ... the following year. Among his other books are ''Hollywood'' (1956), ''Les danseurs'' (1956), ''Les Enragés'' (1957), ''A comme Agathe'' (1964) and ''L'insolence'' (1967). References 1931 births Writers from Paris< ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Simonin
Albert Simonin (1905–1980) was a French novelist and scriptwriter. He was born in the La Chapelle quarter of the 18th arrondissement of Paris. His father was a florist. Albert was orphaned by the age of 16.''Paris Match'' No.3134 11–17 June 2009 His novel ''Touchez Pas au Grisbi'' featuring the Parisian gangster Max le Menteur was turned into a movie starring Jean Gabin that is regarded as a classic example of French film noir. Simonin co-authored the screenplay for the movie. Selected filmography * ''Touchez pas au grisbi'' (1954) * ''The Price of Love'' (1955) * '' Short Head'' (1956) * '' Burning Fuse'' (1957) * '' Anyone Can Kill Me'' (1957) * ''A Bullet in the Gun Barrel'' (1958) * '' Le cave se rebiffe'' (1961) * '' The Gentleman from Epsom'' (1962) * '' Any Number Can Win'', based on a novel by Zekial Marko (1963) * '' Les Tontons flingueurs'' (1963) * '' Une souris chez les hommes'', based on a novel by Francis Ryck (1964) * ''The Great Spy Chase'' (1964) * '' La Mét ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René-Jean Clot
René-Jean Clot (19 January 1913, Algiers – 4 November 1997, Clermont-Ferrand) was a French painter, and novelist. His novel, '' L'Enfant halluciné'', won the 1987 Prix Renaudot. He corresponded with Albert Camus. Works * ''L’Annonciation à la licorne,'' coll. « Méditerranéennes » (n°1), Algiers: éditions Edmond Charlot, 1936 *''Les Gages charnels de l'art français'', éditions Charlot Alger, 1941 *''Paysages africains, Tchad, Tibesti, Fezzan, Borkou, 1945 *''Le noir de la vigne: roman'', Gallimard, 1948 *''Fantômes au soleil,'' éditions Gallimard, 1949 *''Empreintes dans le sol,'' éditions Gallimard, 1950 *'' Le Poil de la bête'', Gallimard, 1951 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 ... *'' Le Mat de cocagne,'' Gallimard, 1953 *''Le Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
