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Émile Guimet Prize For Asian Literature
The Émile Guimet Prize for Asian Literature (Le Prix Émile Guimet de littérature asiatique) is a French literary prize awarded for the first time in 2017, and annually thereafter. About the prize The jury is made up of staff from the Musée Guimet The Guimet Museum (full name in ; ''MNAAG''; ) is a Parisian art museum with one of the largest collections of Asian art outside of Asia that includes items from Cambodia, Thailand, Viet Nam, Tibet, India, and Nepal, among other countries. Foun ..., with writers, publishers and others in the book world. Between five and ten works from the previous year are selected on the basis of four criteria * the winning work is a translation into French, * the author is from one of the geographical areas of expertise of the museum, * the translation was published in France during the previous calendar year, * the original text was published in its country of origin less than ten years earlier. Winners and honorees References External li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guimet Museum
The Guimet Museum (full name in ; ''MNAAG''; ) is a Parisian art museum with one of the largest collections of Asian art outside of Asia that includes items from Cambodia, Thailand, Viet Nam, Tibet, India, and Nepal, among other countries. Founded in the late 19th century, it is located in the XVIe arrondissement, 16th arrondissement of Paris, France, at 6, place d'Iéna. Its name literally translated into English is the ''National Museum of Asian Arts-Guimet'', or ''Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts''. History Founded by Émile Étienne Guimet, an industrialist, the museum first opened at Lyon in 1879 but was later transferred to Paris, opening in the place d'Iéna in 1889. Devoted to travel, Guimet was in 1876 commissioned by the minister of public instruction to study the religions of the Far East, and the museum contains many of the fruits of this expedition, including a fine collection of Chinese and Japanese porcelain and objects relating not merely to the religions o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omar Shahid Hamid
Omar Shahid Hamid (born October 23, 1977) is a Pakistani writer, a serving police officer of the Police Service of Pakistan, and son of the assassinated Malik Shahid Hamid, Managing Director of the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC). Career After successfully passing the CSS Examinations, Omar joined the Police Force in 2003 as an ASP. His first appointment was in Police Headquarters, Garden, Karachi. He has served in Karachi's dangerous Lyari district during the gang wars, and has also served in Pakistan's Intelligence Bureau and in the Sindh Police's Counter terrorism Department. Personal life Omar Shahid Hamid is the son of the late Shahid Hamid, a bureaucrat and managing director of KESC (now K-Electric), who was murdered along with his driver Ashraf Brohi and guard Khan Akbar, in the neighborhood of Defence Housing Authority, Karachi on 5 July 1997. Saulat Mirza, the accused in the case, was convicted and sentenced to death by the court, and was hanged in Machh ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fang Fang
Fang Fang (), pen name of Wang Fang (; born 11 May 1955), is a Chinese writer, known for her literary depictions of the working poor. She won the Lu Xun Literary Prize in 2010. Born in Nanjing, she attended Wuhan University in 1978 to study Chinese. In 1975, she began to write poetry and in 1982, her first novel was published. She has since written several novels, some of which have been honored by Chinese national-level literary prizes. Fang garnered international attention for her ''Wuhan Diary,'' documenting the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in China, and has used her platform to call for an end to internet censorship in China. Wuhan Diary During the 2020 Hubei lockdowns, Fang Fang used social media to share her ''Wuhan Diary'' (), a daily account of life in the locked-down city of Wuhan. In addition to her own writing, ''Wuhan Diary'' utilized anonymous interviews with other people in the city. The account drew international public attention. In the west, Fang Fang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pascal Bruckner
Pascal Bruckner (; born 15 December 1948 in Paris) is a French writer, one of the " New Philosophers" who came to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s. Much of his work has been devoted to critiques of French society and culture. Biography Bruckner attended Jesuit schools in his youth. After studies at the universities of Paris I and Paris VII Diderot, and then at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Bruckner became '' maître de conférences'' at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris and a contributor to the '' Nouvel Observateur''. Bruckner began writing in the vein of the '' nouveaux philosophes'' or New Philosophers. He published ''Parias'' (''Parias''), '' Lunes de fiel'' (''Evil Angels'') (adapted as a film by Roman Polanski) and '' Les voleurs de beauté'' (The Beauty Stealers) ( Prix Renaudot in 1997). Among his essays are '' La tentation de l'innocence'' ("The Temptation of Innocence," Prix Médicis in 1995) and, famously, '' Le Sanglot de l'homme blanc'' (''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aurélie Filippetti
Aurélie Filippetti ( ; born 17 June 1973) is a French politician and novelist. She served as French Minister of Culture and Communications from 2012 until 2014, first in the government of Jean-Marc Ayrault and then in the government of Manuel Valls. Early life and career Filippetti is of Italian descent and her family originates from Gualdo Tadino, Umbria. She is an alumna of the elite École normale supérieure de Fontenay–Saint-Cloud, she received an ''agrégation'' in Classic Literature. Career as a writer Filippetti's first novel ''Les derniers jours de la classe Ouvrière'' (The Last Days of the Working Class), published by Stock in 2003, has been translated into several languages. In 2003, Filippetti wrote the script for the theatre production ''Fragments d'humanité''. Political career Filippetti was a delegate of the French Greens for the Paris municipality and acted as the technical adviser for the Minister of the Environment, Yves Cochet, from 2001 to 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jia Pingwa
Jia Pingwa (born 21 February 1952) is one of China's most popular authors of novels, short stories, poetry, and non-fiction. His best-known novels include ''Ruined City'', which was banned by the State Publishing Administration for over 17 years for its explicit sexual content, and '' The Shaanxi Opera'', winner of the 2009 Mao Dun Literature Prize. Early life and teen years Born in Dihua () Village, Danfeng County, Shangluo, Shaanxi in 1952, only three years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, as the son of a school teacher, Jia Yanchun (), Jia had an early role model for his later decision to become a writer. Due to a shortage of qualified teachers in Shaanxi at the time, however, Jia's father was often away from home and so he spent much of his early childhood with his mother, Zhou Xiao'e (). With the advent of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, Jia Yanchun was accused of being a counter-revolutionary and he spent the next ten years in a labour (''laogai'') c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashok Ferrey
Ashok Ferrey (born 1957) is a Sri Lankan writer of literary fiction. Biography Ferrey was born in Colombo in 1957, raised in East Africa, educated at a Benedictine monastery school at Worth Abbey, and studied pure mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford. Following his graduation, he lived in London as a building developer during the Thatcher years before turning to write fiction. He is the author of seven novels, five of which have been nominated for the Gratiaen Prize, Sri Lanka's literary award, founded by Michael Ondaatje. His latest novel, ''The Unmarriageable Man'' won the Gratiaen Prize in 2021. His book, ''The Ceaseless Chatter of Demons'', was also longlisted for the DSC Prize. Bibliography * 2003 — ''Colpetty People'' * 2007 — ''The Good Little Ceylonese Girl'' * 2009 — ''Serendipity'' * 2012 — ''Love in the Tsunami''{{Cite book , last=Ferry , first=Ashok , title=Love in the Tsunami , date=2012 , publisher=Penguin Group Penguin Group is a British trade bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shih-Li Kow
Shih-Li Kow is a Malaysian writer born in 1968. She is best known for short story collections, including ''Ripples and Other Stories'' (2008) and her award-winning novel ''The Sum of Our Follies'' (2014). Biography Kow holds a degree in chemical engineering, and resides in Kuala Lumpur with her son and extended family. Her book ''Ripples and Other Stories'' was shortlisted for the 2009 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. Her debut novel, ''The Sum of Our Follies'' (French trans. ''La Somme de nos Folies'' by Frederic Grellier), was awarded the 2018 Prix du Premier Roman Etranger. Awards Works Short story collections * * * Novel * References * Raman Krishnan (19 March 2009 "What do readers want?" ''Malay Mail''. * Intan Maizura Ahmad Kamal (28 March 2009)"Time for words" ''Sunday People''. External links Shih-Li Kowon Goodreads Goodreads is an American social cataloging website and a subsidiary of Amazon that allows individuals to search its da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eun Hee-kyung
Eun Heekyung (; born in 1959) is a South Korean writer."은희경" biographical PDF available at: Life Eun was born in Gochang, Jeollabuk-do in 1959. She did her undergraduate degree in literature at Sookmyung Women's University, and her graduate degree in the same field at Yonsei University, both in Seoul. Her childhood was full of fairy tales A fairy tale (alternative names include fairytale, fairy story, household tale, magic tale, or wonder tale) is a short story that belongs to the Folklore, folklore genre. Such stories typically feature Magic (supernatural), magic, Incantation, e ... and children's stories that her parents purchased for her. Eun once stated, "My most important reading was pretty much done during my childhood." Even as a student she always read books (non-schoolbooks), and also recounts reading so intently that she failed to hear that school was ending, and only realizing it when she was surrounded by silence as the other students had left. She also d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natsu Miyashita
Natsu may refer to: People *, Japanese comedian *, Japanese professional wrestler *, Japanese dancer Characters *Natsu Dragneel, the main character in the ''Fairy Tail'' anime and manga series *Natsu Ayuhara, a character in the ''Rival Schools'' video game series * Natsu (''Soulcalibur''), a character in the ''Soul'' video game series *Natsu Hinata, a minor character in the ''Haikyuu'' anime and manga series *Natsu Yutori, a character in the ''Blue Archive ''Blue Archive'' is a 2021 real-time strategy role-playing game developed by the South Korean developer MX Studio under the management umbrella of Nexon Games (formerly NAT Games). The player and protagonist is a Sensei who was summoned ...'' video game series {{disambig Japanese unisex given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Singaravélou
Pierre Singaravélou (born 18 January 1977) is a French Global historian who is a British Academy Global Professor of History at King's College London. He is also full Professor of Modern History at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and director of the Center for Asian History (Sorbonne). Professor Singaravélou is the former director of the Sorbonne University Press and an honorary fellow of the Institut universitaire de France (IUF, Academic Institute of France). Career From 2009 to 2014, he was senior lecturer at the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University (Sorbonne) in the Department of history, and also taught at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. He then became a Fellow at the Institut universitaire de France (IUF, Academic Institute of France) from 2013 to 2018. As of 2015, he is full professor of modern history at the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. At the same time, he was appointed director of the Sorbonne University Press from 2015 to 2019. He is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrien Goetz
Adrien Goetz (born 1966 in Caen, Calvados) is a French Art History Professor, art critic and novelist. He graduated from the École Normale Supérieure. His work appeared in '' Zurban'', and ''Beaux-Arts Magazine''. He is Lecturer in Art History at the Sorbonne., and the Editor of ''Grande Galerie'', the magazine published by the Louvre Museum. Adrien Goetz was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts - Institut de France in December 2018. Awards * Prix des Deux Magots in 2004 for his novel '' La Dormeuse de Naples'' (The Sleeper of Naples). *prix du livre d'art du Syndicat National des Antiquaires, for ''Ingres Collages'' *2007 grand prix François-Victor Noury of the Institut de France, from the Académie Française Bibliography Novels * ''Webcam'', 2003, Le Passage, 2003, ; Points, 2006, * '' La Dormeuse de Naples'', Seuil, 2004 * ''Marie-Antoinette'', 2005 * ''À bas la nuit!'' B. Grasset, 2006, ; LGF/Le Livre de Poche, 2009, * ''Intrigue à l'anglaise'' (Grasset) 2007 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
