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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] |
Éditions Julliard
Éditions Julliard is a French publishing house. It was founded in 1942 by René Julliard. Julliard was known as a discoverer and publisher of talents, in particular Françoise Sagan and Jean d'Ormesson. After Julliard's death in July 1962, the managing director, Christian Bourgois, took over the publishing house. Éditions Julliard was soon repurchased by the publishing house Presses de la Cité. Christian Bourgois created his own publishing house in 1966. In 1953, André Frank and Jean-Louis Barrault created the review of the Renaud-Barrault books (''Les Cahiers Renaud-Barrault''), published at Éditions Julliard until Julliard's death, then at Éditions Gallimard. Éditions Julliard was revived in 1988, when Christian Bourgois decided to appoint Élisabeth Gille as literary director. They sought out and published new talents, such as Lydie Salvayre and Régine Detambel, but also the great names of Éditions Julliard, like Françoise Sagan. Christian Bourgois and Élisabe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What The Day Owes The Night
''What the Day Owes the Night'' is a 2008 novel by Algerian writer Yasmina Khadra. It was originally written and published in French. The English translation was produced by Frank Wynne Frank Wynne (born 1962) is an Irish literary translator and writer. Biography Born in County Sligo in the west of Ireland, Frank Wynne worked as a comics editor at Fleetway and later at comic magazine '' Deadline''. He worked for a time at ..., and published by Heinemann in 2010. Film adaptation The 2012 film '' What the Day Owes the Night'' is based on the novel. Awards * '' Lire'' magazine - Best book of the year (2008) References 2010 novels Algerian novels Algerian novels adapted into films French-language novels {{Algeria-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasmina Khadra
Mohammed Moulessehoul (; born 10 January 1955), better known by the pen name Yasmina Khadra (), is an Algerian author living in France, who writes in French language, French. One of the most famous Algerian novelists in the world, he has written almost 40 novels, and has published in more than 50 countries. Khadra has often explored Algerian and other Arab countries' civil wars, depicting Muslim conflicts and reality, the attraction of radical Islamism to those alienated by the incompetence and hypocrisy of politicians, and conflicts between East and West. In his several writings on the Algerian war, he has exposed the regime and the fundamentalist opposition as the joint guilty parties in the country's tragedy. Biography Early life, and short stories Moulessehoul was born in 1955 in Kénadsa, in the Algerian Sahara. His mother, of nomadic origins, was her tribe's "chief storyteller". His father, initially a nurse, joined the National Liberation Front (Algeria), Algerian National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivier Adam
Olivier Adam (born 12 July 1974) is a French author and screenwriter. His debut novel ''Je vais bien, ne t’en fais pas'' (''Don't worry, I am fine'') was adapted into the eponym film. He also writes books for young adults, among them ''La messe anniversaire''. Adam won the 2004 Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle for ''Passer l'hiver''. He grew up in the Paris suburbs and now lives in Brittany near Saint-Malo. He participated in the creation of the literary festival Correspondence Manosque. Also a screenwriter, he has participated in writing ''Don't Worry, I'm Fine'' (2006) and ''Welcome'' (2009). Biography Adam was born on July 12, 1974 and grew up in the commune of Draveil with two brothers. His father was a bank clerk. He attended Paris Dauphine University where he studied cultural business management. This was where he met his future partner Karine Reysset. He first became a consultant to advise local authorities in cultural policy and participated in the creation of the Cor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actes Sud
Actes Sud is a French publishing house based in Arles. It was founded in 1978 by author Hubert Nyssen. By 2013, the company, then headed by Nyssen's daughter, Françoise Nyssen, had an annual turnover of 60 million euros and 60 staff members. History ACTeS was situated in Paradou, a village in the Vallée des Baux. Here, founder Hubert Nyssen, his wife Christine Le Bœuf, (which was the granddaughter of Belgian banker and patron Henry Le Bœuf), his sister Françoise Nyssen, Bertrand Py and Jean-Paul Capitani met and founded Actes Sud. In 1983 Actes Sud moved to Arles. The publishing house was incorporated on 2 May 1987. The ''Actes Sud'' was a publication of the "Atelier de cartographie thématique et statistique" (ACTeS). Authors A selection of authors Actes Sud published: Prizes * 2004: the book '' The Scortas' Sun'' (''Le Soleil des Scorta'') by Laurent Gaudé, was the first book published by Actes Sud, receiving a Prix Goncourt (Prix Goncourt/Roman). T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Huston
Nancy Louise Huston, Order of Canada, OC (born September 16, 1953) is a Canadian novelist and essayist, a longtime resident of France, who writes primarily in French and translates her own works into English. Biography Huston was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, the city in which she lived until age fifteen, at which time her family moved to Wilton, New Hampshire, Wilton, New Hampshire, where she attended High Mowing School. She studied at Sarah Lawrence College in New York City, where she was given the opportunity to spend a year of her studies in Paris. Arriving in Paris in 1973, Huston obtained a master's degree from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, writing a thesis on swear words under the supervision of Roland Barthes. She was the second wife of Bulgarian-French historian and philosopher Tzvetan Todorov, with whom she had two children, daughter Léa Todorov, Léa and son Sacha; she and Todorov divorced i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albin Michel
Albin may refer to: Places * Albin, Wyoming, US * Albin Township, Brown County, Minnesota, US * Albin, Virginia, US People * Albin (given name), origin of the name and people with the first name "Albin" * Albin (surname) ;Mononyms * Albin of Brechin (died 1269), Scottish bishop * Albin (rapper), real name Albin Johnsén, Swedish rapper * Albin (singer), mononym of Albin Sandqvist, Swedish electronic and dance pop singer Other * Albin (meteorite), found in 1915 in Laramie County, Wyoming, United States * Albin Countergambit, a chess opening * Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens, founded in 1961, located in Winter Park, Florida, US * Albin Vega, a brand of yacht designed in Sweden * Per Albin Line, folkloric name of a 500 kilometer long line of light fortifications erected during World War II around the coast of southern Sweden * Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116, the intended given name of Albin Gustaf Tarzan Hallin * Albin, a character in La Cage aux Folle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franck Pavloff
Franck Pavloff (born 24 April 1940) is a French psychologist, novelist, and poet. Franck Pavloff currently lives in Isère, in eastern France, between trips. His Bulgarian father raised him in a way to develop a critical mind and a need for freedom, bequeathing him "the imperious taste of barbed wire and shoving confiscated thoughts" (blurb for the short story ''Brown'' ''Morning''). Life experience He spent over twenty years between Africa, Asia, Latin America, and France working in the fields of social communities development and the defence of children's rights. He is an expert psychologist for the Courts of Appeals. His first novel was published in 1993 by Editions Gallimard in the Série Noire collection. Up until now, he has written 25 other books in the themes of romantic fiction, young adult fiction, travel diary and poetry. His short story '' Brown Morning'' published by Cheyne editions in 1998 has achieved international success. With about two million copies sold in F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
