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Prix France Télévisions
The Prix France Télévisions are annual literary awards in France. Since 1995, the national television broadcaster France Télévisions has awarded two prizes, for a novel and an essay. The judging panel consists of 15 television viewers chosen from across France, on the basis of their cover letters. Winners of the France Télévisions novel prize * 1995: Florence Seyvos, ''Les Apparitions'' ( Éditions de l'Olivier) * 1996: Jean-Paul Dubois, ''Kennedy et moi'' (Seuil) * 1997: Louis Gardel, ''L'Aurore des bien-aimés'' (Seuil) * 1998: Paule Constant, '' Confidence pour confidence'' ( Gallimard) * 1999: Michèle Desbordes, ''La Demande'' () * 2000: Dominique Jamet, ''Un petit Parisien 1941-1945'' (Flammarion) * 2000: Philippe Claudel, ''J'abandonne'' () * 2001: François Vallejo, ''Madame Angeloso'' () * 2002: Jean-Pierre Milovanoff, ''La Mélancolie des innocents'' ( Grasset) * 2003: Serge Joncour, ' () * 2004: Éric Fottorino, ''Korsakov'' ( allimard) * 2005: Franck Pavloff, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlantic, North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and List of islands of France, many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it Exclusive economic zone of France, one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world. Metropolitan France shares borders with Belgium and Luxembourg to the north; Germany to the northeast; Switzerland to the east; Italy and Monaco to the southeast; Andorra and Spain to the south; and a maritime border with the United Kingdom to the northwest. Its metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea. Its Regions of France, eighteen integral regions—five of which are overseas—span a combined area of and hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Pierre Milovanoff
Jean-Pierre Milovanoff (born 1940, in Nîmes) is a French writer, laureate of several literary prizes Milovanoff's father was born in Russia and left his country in 1919; His mother is of Provencal origin. He studied letters at Montpellier and at the Sorbonne. He is a radio producer at France Culture and lived successively in Paris, Montpellier and Copenhagen. His first novel ''La Fête interrompue'' was published in 1970. He wrote three collections of poems entitled ''Borgo Babylone'', ''La Ballade du lépreux'' et ''Noir devant''. In 1997, Jean-Pierre Milovanoff received the prix Goncourt des lycéens for his novel ''le Maître des paons''. He resides in Génolhac. Works ;Novels *1970: ''La Fête interrompue'', éditions de Minuit *1978: ''Rempart mobile'', éditions de Minuit *1993: ''L'Ouvreuse'', éditions Julliard *1994: ''La Rosita'', Julliard *1995: ''Russe blanc'', Julliard *1996: ''La Splendeur d'Antonia'', Julliard, Prix France Culture. *1997: ''Le Maître des pao ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jérôme Ferrari
Jérôme Ferrari (born 1968 in Paris) is a French writer and translator. He won the 2012 Prix Goncourt for his novel ''Le Sermon sur la chute de Rome'' ('' The Sermon on the Fall of Rome''). Ferrari has lived in Corsica and taught philosophy at the '' Lycée international Alexandre-Dumas'' in Algiers for several years, then at the Lycée Fesch of Ajaccio. Currently, he is professor of philosophy at the French School of Abu Dhabi. Several of his novels have been translated into English, including ''Where I Left My Soul'' (2012), which is "set in the mid-1950s during the Algerian war, looking backwards to the second world war and the French defeat in Indochina, and forwards to the collapse in 1958 of the Fourth Republic." Most recently, his novel ''In His Own Image'' was published in English translation by Europa Editions. Works * 2002 ''Aleph zéro'' * 2007 Dans le secret * 2008 ''Balco Atlantico'' (English translation: ''Balco Atlantico'', 2019) * 2009 ''Un dieu un animal'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Véronique Ovaldé
Véronique Ovaldé (born 1972) is a French novelist. Her fifth novel ''Et mon cœur transparent'' won the Prix France Culture/Télérama in 2008. Her seventh novel ''Ce que je sais de Vera Candida'' won the Prix Renaudot des lycéens (2009), the Prix France Télévisions (2009) and the Grand prix des lectrices de Elle (2010). She has had two books translated into English by Adriana Hunter, but Ovaldé's other titles are still available for interested publishers and translators. In 2024, she published ''A nos vies imparfaites'' which received the Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle. She lives in Paris. Works * 2000: ''Le Sommeil des poissons'', Éditions du Seuil * 2002: ''Toutes choses scintillant'', L'Ampoule, * 2003: ''Les hommes en général me plaisent beaucoup'', Actes Sud, J'ai lu, 2006 * 2005: ''Déloger l'animal'', Actes Sud (Translated by ''Adrian Hunter'' as ''Kick Out the Animal'') * 2006: ''La Très Petite Zébuline'' with Joëlle Jolivet, Actes Sud junior * 2008: '' E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
