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Grand Prix De La Critique Littéraire
The grand prix de la Critique littéraire was created in 1948 by Robert André. It is awarded each year by the French PEN club to a literary essay. Chaired by , its jury is now made up of Jean Blot, Jean-Luc Despax, Jean-Claude Lamy, Daniel Leuwers, , Laurence Paton (general secretary), Antoine Spire and {{ill, Patrick Tudoret, fr. Since its creation, it has rewarded many leading authors and intends to promote a literary criticism of quality and, quite simply, literature. List of laureates * 2019: Judith Lyon-Caen, for ''La griffe du temps'' ( Gallimard) * 2018: Patrick Mimouni, for ''Les mémoires maudites : Juifs et homosexuels dans l’œuvre et la vie de Marcel Proust'' ( Grasset) * 2017: Lakis Proguidis, for ''Rabelais, que le roman commence'' (Editions Pierre-Guillaume de Roux) * 2016: Béatrice Commengé, for ''Une vie de paysages'' (Editions Verdier) * 2015: Pierre Boncenne, for ''Le Parapluie de Simon Ley'', Philippe Rey * 2014: Paul Audi, for ''Qui témoignera pou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Blot
Alexandre Blokh (), called Jean Blot, (31 March 1923, Moscow – 23 December 2019, Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois (Essonne)) was a French writer, translator, and senior civil servant of Russian origin. Biography Blot came from two bourgeois families (St. Petersburg diamonds for his father, wholesale grocer for his mother). In the USSR of the twenties, his parents worked at the defense commissioner for his father, as a lawyer for street children for his mother. His family moved to Germany at the time of the NEP, then moved to Paris where he attended primary school. Sent to England to learn English for high school, he spent the war in France. A Russian and Jewish refugee, he fled to Lyon and engaged in the Resistance (''Le juif Margolin'' 1998). He was a doctor of Law, Bachelor of Arts, International Civil Servant at the United Nations in New York (1946–1956), in Geneva (1958–1961) then at the UNESCO in Paris (from 1962). He travelled all over the world. International Secretary of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |