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News of France's Prix Goncourt

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France’s Biennial Salon du Livre Africain Grows in Its Second Edition

In News by Olivia SnaijeMarch 24, 2023

The second iteration of the Salon de Livre Africain du Paris featured some 60 publishers from France and 11 markets in Africa.

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The Salon du Livre Africain’s First Outing: A Hit in Paris

In News by Olivia SnaijeSeptember 29, 2021

In its inaugural staging, the Salon du Livre Africain de Paris invited more than 150 authors and presented 30 French and African publishers.

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France’s Hervé Le Tellier: An Anomaly of a Residency for His Translators

In Feature Articles by Olivia SnaijeMay 20, 2021

‘You realize when you’re a writer that you don’t think of your translators,’ says the 2020 Prix Goncourt-winning author.

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In China, the 2019 Prix Fu Lei Honors New French-to-Mandarin Translations

In Feature Articles by Olivia SnaijeDecember 4, 2019

Continuing a longstanding tradition of cultural relations between France and China, the Prix Fu Lei this year features works by Foucault, Céline, and Adimi.

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Jean-Paul Dubois Wins the 2019 Prix Goncourt for Novel Set in a Canadian Prison

In News by Porter AndersonNovember 5, 2019

Widely termed ‘melancholy,’ the 2019 Prix Goncourt-winning novel by Jean-Paul Dubois is set in a Montreal prison and looks at North American life and values.

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Is France’s Smaller 2019 Rentrée Littéraire Still Too Big?

In Feature Articles by Olivia SnaijeSeptember 5, 2019

Releasing more than 500 new titles in a scant three-month season, say critics, is an overwhelming burden on French booksellers and consumers.

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Rights Sales for the Winner of the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens: ‘So Good’

In Feature Articles by Olivia SnaijeJanuary 25, 2019

Award-winning author David Diop is the client of a new one-woman literary agency in France. Looking at her rights sales, you can understand the agency’s name: So Far So Good.

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2017 Prix Goncourt Shortlist Announced in Frankfurt

In News by Olivia SnaijeOctober 12, 2017

With France as Guest of Honor at the Fair, the shortlist of the Prix Goncourt is announced at the Frankfurt Book Fair for the first time.

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Near Miss for Algeria’s Kamel Daoud for Goncourt

In Global Trade Talk by Olivia SnaijeNovember 7, 2014

Unexpectedly, Algerian writer Kamel Daoud’s powerful novel, an homage to Camus, nearly took France’s top literary prize.

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Critics Attack France’s Annual Rentrée Littéraire as “Collective Suicide”

In Europe by Olivia SnaijeSeptember 14, 2012

France’s annual orgy of new fiction, the rentrée littéraire, or literary season, is underway, but some in publishing think it’s doing more harm than good.

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