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Prix Du Meilleur Livre Étranger
The Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book Prize) is a French literary prize created in 1948. It is awarded yearly in two categories: Novel and Essay for books translated into French. Prix du Meilleur livre étranger — Novel *2022: Juan Gabriel Vásquez, for ''Volver la vista atrás'' as ''Une rétrospective'' (Le Seuil) *2021: Guzel Yakhina, for ''Дети мои'' as ''Les enfants de la Volga'' (Noir sur Blanc). *2020: Colum McCann, for ''Apeirogon (novel), Apeirogon'' (Belfond) *2019ː Christoph Hein, for ''Glückskind mit Vater'' as ''L'ombre d'un père'' (Metaillié) *2018ː Eduardo Halfon, for ''Duelo'' as ''Deuils'' (Quai Voltaire) * 2017: Viet Thanh Nguyen, for ''The Sympathizer'' as ''Le Sympathisant'' (Belfond) * 2016: Helen Macdonald (writer), Helen MacDonald, for ''H is for Hawk'' as ''M pour Mabel'' (Fleuve éditions) * 2015: Martin Amis, for ''The Zone of Interest (novel), The Zone of Interest'' as ''La Zone d'intérêt'' (Calmann-Lévy) * 2014: Drago ... [...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); th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Stranger's Child
''The Stranger's Child'' is the fifth novel by Alan Hollinghurst, first published in June 2011. The book tells the story of a minor poet, Cecil Valance, who is killed in the First World War. In 1913, he visits a Cambridge friend, George Sawle, at the latter's home in Stanmore, Middlesex. While there Valance writes a poem entitled "Two Acres", about the Sawles' house and addressed, ambiguously, either to George himself or to George's younger sister, Daphne. The poem goes on to become famous and the novel follows the changing reputation of Valance and his poetry in the following decades. The phrase "the stranger's child" comes from the poem ''In Memoriam A.H.H.'' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson: "And year by year the landscape grow / Familiar to the stranger's child." In an interview with ''The Oxonian Review'' in 2012, Hollinghurst commented of the epigraph that "[t]he music of the words is absolutely wonderful, marvellously sad and consoling all at once. It fitted exactly with an ide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shadow Of The Wind
''The Shadow of the Wind'' () is a 2001 novel by the Spanish writer Carlos Ruiz Zafón and a worldwide bestseller. It is the first book in the series Cemetery of Forgotten Books. The book was translated into English in 2004 by Lucia Graves and sold over a million copies in the UK after already achieving success on mainland Europe, topping the Spanish bestseller lists for weeks. It was published in the United States by Penguin Books and in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Orion Books. It is believed to have sold 15 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling books of all time. Ruiz Zafón's follow-up, ''The Angel's Game'', is a prequel to ''The Shadow of the Wind''. His third in the series, '' The Prisoner of Heaven'', is the sequel to ''The Shadow of the Wind''. Plot summary The novel is actually a story within a story. The novel opens in the 1940s with the protagonist, Daniel, a boy whose father owns a bookshop in Barcelona. One day, his father takes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Carlos Ruiz Zafón (; 25 September 1964 – 19 June 2020) was a Spanish novelist known for his 2001 novel ''La sombra del viento'' ('' The Shadow of the Wind''). The novel sold 15 million copies and was winner of numerous awards; it was included in the list of the one hundred best books in Spanish in the last twenty-five years, made in 2007 by eighty-one Latin American and Spanish writers and critics. Biography Ruiz Zafón was born in Barcelona. His grandparents had worked in a factory and his father sold insurance. Ruiz Zafón began his working life in advertising. In the 1990s he moved to Los Angeles where he worked briefly in screen writing. He was fluent in English. Ruiz Zafón died of colorectal cancer in Los Angeles on 19 June 2020. Literary career Ruiz Zafón's first novel, ''El príncipe de la niebla'' 1993 ('' The Prince of Mist'', published in English in 2010), earned the Edebé literary prize for young adult fiction. He was also the author of three additional young ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Master (novel)
''The Master'' is a novel by Irish writer Colm Tóibín. His fifth novel, it received the International Dublin Literary Award, the Stonewall Book Award, the Lambda Literary Award, the ''Los Angeles Times'' Novel of the Year and, in France, '' Le prix du meilleur livre étranger'' in 2005. It was also shortlisted for the 2004 Booker Prize. Plot summary ''The Master'' depicts the American-born writer Henry James in the final years of the 19th century. The eleven chapters of the novel are labelled from January 1895 to October 1899 and follow the writer from his failure in the London theatre, with the play '' Guy Domville'', to his seclusion in the town of Rye, East Sussex, where in the following years he rapidly produced several masterpieces. The novel starts with a portrait of Henry as a public figure who feels humiliated in an unexpected way, not just in the public side of his writing career but also in a more personal way, in which all the precautions he had taken to carry on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín ( , ; born 30 May 1955) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, critic, playwright and poet. His first novel, ''The South (novel), The South'', was published in 1990. ''The Blackwater Lightship'' was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. ''The Master (novel), The Master'' (a fictionalised version of the inner life of Henry James) was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the 2006 International Dublin Literary Award, securing for Toíbín a bounty of thousands of euro as it is one of the richest literary awards in the world. ''Nora Webster'' won the Hawthornden Prize, whilst ''The Magician (Tóibín novel), The Magician'' (a fictionalised version of the life of Thomas Mann) won the Folio Prize. His fellow artists elected him to Aosdána and he won the "UK and Ireland Nobel" David Cohen Prize in 2021. He succeeded Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester. He was Chancellor (education), Chancellor of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The History Of Love
''The History of Love: A Novel'' is the 2005 novel by the American writer Nicole Krauss.The book was a 2006 finalist for the Orange Prize for Fiction and won the 2008 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for fiction. An excerpt from the novel was published in ''The New Yorker'' in 2004 under the title ''The Last Words on Earth''. Plot In Poland, approximately 70 years before the present, the 10-year-old Polish-Jewish Leopold (Leo) Gursky falls in love with his neighbor Alma Mereminski. The two begin a relationship that develops over the course of 10 years. In this time, Leo writes three books that he gives to Alma, since she is the only person he deeply cares about. Leo promises he will never love anyone but her. Alma, now 20, is sent to the United States by her father, who feared the alarming news concerning Nazi Germany. Leo does not know that Alma is pregnant and dreams of going to America to meet her. A short time after, the Germans invade Poland and Leo takes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Krauss
Nicole Krauss (born August 18, 1974) is an American author best known for her four novels '' Man Walks into a Room'' (2002), '' The History of Love'' (2005), '' Great House'' (2010) and '' Forest Dark'' (2017), which have been translated into 35 languages. Her fiction has been published in ''The New Yorker'', '' Harper's'', ''Esquire'', and '' Granta's Best American Novelists Under 40'', and has been collected in '' The Best American Short Stories 2003'', '' The Best American Short Stories 2008'' and ''The'' ''Best American Short Stories 2019''. In 2011, Nicole Krauss won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for ''Great House''. A collection of her short stories, '' To Be a Man'', was published in 2020 and won the Wingate Literary Prize in 2022. Early life Krauss, who grew up on Long Island, New York, was born in Manhattan, New York City, to a British Jewish mother and an American Jewish father, an engineer and orthopedic surgeon who grew up partly in Israel. Krauss's maternal gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Searching For John Ford
Searching may refer to: Music * " Searchin", a 1957 song originally performed by The Coasters * "Searching" (China Black song), a 1991 song by China Black * "Searchin" (CeCe Peniston song), a 1993 song by CeCe Peniston * "Searchin' (I Gotta Find a Man)", a 1983 dance song by Hazell Dean * "Searching" (INXS song), a 1997 song by INXS * "Searching" (Pete Rock & CL Smooth song), a 1995 song from the Pete Rock & CL Smooth album ''The Main Ingredient'' * ''Searching'', a 2013 album by Jay Diggins * "Searching", a 1980 single by Change * "Searching", a 2004 song by Joe Satriani from his album '' Is There Love in Space?'' * "Searchin", a 1981 song on the Blackfoot album ''Marauder'' * "Searching", a 1976 song by Lynyrd Skynyrd from the album '' Gimme Back My Bullets'' * "Searching", a 1976 song by Roy Ayers from the album ''Vibrations'' * "Searchin", a 2003 song by Brant Bjork from the album '' Keep Your Cool'' * "Searchin", a 1996 song by Eminem from his album '' Infinite'' Ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph McBride (writer)
Joseph McBride (born August 9, 1947) is an American film historian, biographer, screenwriter, author and educator. He has written books on a variety of subjects including notable film directors, screenwriting, the JFK assassination, and a memoir of his youth. He also serves as professor in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University. Career Early life and career Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, McBride grew up in the suburb of Wauwatosa. He attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and worked as a reporter for the ''Wisconsin State Journal'' in Madison, before moving to California in 1973. Books McBride has published more than 20 books, including biographies of directors Steven Spielberg (''Steven Spielberg: A Biography'', 1997, and published in translation in mainland China in 2012), Frank Capra (''Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success'', 1992), two of John Ford: ''John Ford'' (with Michael Wilmington, 1974) and ''Searching for John Ford)'' (2001) and three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Lewinsky
Charles Lewinsky is a Swiss screenwriter and playwright, as well as a writer of novels and non-fiction, born and living in Zürich. He is known for his TV script '' Fascht e Familie''. Early life and education Born and raised in Zürich, Canton of Zürich in Switzerland, Charles Lewinsky studied German and theater science in Berlin and Zurich, and worked as an assistant director of Fritz Kortner. In 1965 Charles Lewinsky married Ruth Lewinsky née Halpern, a Swiss writer who also was born in Zürich. In 1965/67 he was assistant director and dramaturg at the ''Stadttheater Luzern'', in 1967/70 dramaturge and personal assistant to the director at the Stadttheater Ingolstadt, in 1970/71 dramaturge at the ''Freie Volksbühne Berlin'', and in 1972/75 dramaturg and director at the Staatstheater Kassel. Career Dramaturgy and playwright In 1975 Lewinsky became the editor and head of the "word - entertainment" department of the present Swiss national television SRF. Since 1980 he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
