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In Spring It Is the Dawn (Free subscription) | 29/06/2008
by Laurent Gaudé (Originally published in French as Le Soleil des Scorta , published in the US and Canada as The House of Scorta .) Translated from the French by Andrew Brown Fiction/Literature, 2004 (France), 2006 (English translation) Hesperus Press, hardback, 202 p. WINNER of the Prix Goncourt , 2004 Boasting a notorious brigand as an ancestor, the Scorta family is born into extreme poverty in the...
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the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
Jonathan Littell's Prix Goncourt-winning Les Bienveillantes will be coming out in Charlotte Mandell's English translation next March, as The Kindly Ones, and it's now finally listed at Amazon. Meanwhile, the Frankfurter Rundschau offer a brilliant interview with him -- and we can't wait for the American book tour, by which time we hope he wil be even more fed up.
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the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
They've finally filled another of the empty fauteuils at the Academie Francaise, as Jean-Christophe Ruffin was elected to take over Henri Troyat's old seat. Prix Goncourt winner ! MD ! Ambassador to Senegal ! It can't have been too hard a call (and yet he only got two more votes than Olivier Germain-Thomas).
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I V Y Paris (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
Lauren Elkin (Maitresse) writing for I V Y paris Wondering what to read this summer? Wondering what books are likely to be considered for the Prix Goncourt in September? Solve all your problems by tackling this summer reading list, suggested...
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Maitresse (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
Wondering what to read this summer? Wondering what books are likely to be considered for the Prix Goncourt in September? Solve all your problems by tackling this summer reading list, suggested by the Académie Goncourt (which they swear is absolutely...
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the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Tahar Ben Jelloun and Patrick Rambaud get the last two places at the Academie Goncourt table, so now they're all set to start wading through the 700 or so titles they have to consider for the Prix Goncourt this fall.
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German Joys (Free subscription) | 23/02/2008
Jonathan Littell on winning (g, my translation) the 2006 Prix Goncourt for his novel Les Bienveillantes: You received the Prix Goncourt. Unfortunately. I did everything I could to prevent that. But you did not accept it. I didn't want it....
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France24 (Free subscription) | 23/12/2007
Renowned French author Julien Gracq has died in hospital in western France. Mr Gracq, whose works were reviewed by surrealist Andre Breton, famously turned down the prestigeous Goncourt Prize in 1951 for his masterpiece 'The Opposite Shore'.
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France24 (Free subscription) | 23/12/2007
Renowned French author Julien Gracq has died in hospital in western France. Mr Gracq, whose works were reviewed by surrealist Andre Breton, famously turned down the prestigeous Goncourt Prize in 1951 for his masterpiece 'The Opposite Shore'.
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View From The Pundy House (Free subscription) | 23/11/2007
Anyone know how you enter this competition? Do you have to be French? Same info required for The Booker Prize. Also, does the Pulitzer include fiction? Any tips, advice or top prizes I've overlooked greatly appreciated.
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Bookninja (Free subscription) | 06/11/2007
With the mic in my hand…. CBC offers a multimedia primer to this year’s CanLit award season, sorry, let me rephrase that: this year’s CanLit FICTION award season… The Globe counters with a panel of pundits discussing the Giller The Goncourt Prize and other French awards have apparently delivered verdicts that are surprising and interesting to people in [...]
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 05/11/2007
PARIS (Reuters) - A novel recounting the story of one of American literature's most famous couples has won France's top literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, the jury said on Monday.
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France24 (Free subscription) | 05/11/2007
The Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize, has been awarded to Gilles Leroy for "Alabama Song", a fictional autobiography of F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife Zelda.
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France24 (Free subscription) | 02/11/2007
The French literary establishment is buzzing with excitement. November is the month of The Prix Goncourt - France's most prestigious book prize and highest literary honour. Over the years, the event has become something of a ritual.....
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Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 31/10/2007
As the 2007 Prix Goncourt announcement draws nigh, Emma Garman considers the tragic but exciting life of Romain Gary, the only writer to win the prestigious French literary award twice. On [...]
