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National Literary awards and fellowships

Read Félix Fénéon's Novels in Three Lines on Twitter

This is a fabulous find for all of you French literature fans who don't have enough time to sit down and read a Proust novel today. Get your...
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2009 winners of the Prix Renaudot and Prix Goncourt

On November 2, 2009 two more French authors entered the ranks of lauréats.Marie NDiaye won the Prix Goncourt for Trois femmes puissantes ...
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She's back: Amélie Nothomb's Le Voyage d'hiver

No stranger to the rentrée littéraire, Amélie Nothomb made her presence known again this year with the release of Le Voyage d...
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Assia Djebar's vast oeuvre

Assia Djebar is the pen name of Fatima-Zohra Imalayen, an Algeriannovelist, translator and filmmaker. The majority of her literary corpus addresses...
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The prolific Alain Mabanckou

Alain Mabanckou was born in Congo-Brazzaville in 1966 and spent his childhood in the coastal village of Pointe-Noir. Afterstudying law at The...
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More French literary awards: Prix des Deux Magots, Prix Femina, Prix Médicis

The Prix Renaudot and the Prix Goncourt aren’t the only literary prizes that will be awarded this fall.The Prix des Deux Magots is a...
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Marie NDiaye, star of France's 2009 literary rentrée

One of the mostrecognized writers of the 2009 rentrée littéraire has been Marie NDiaye, author of the fictional novel Trois femmes...
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Healing through literature: Edwidge Danticat's Brother, I'm Dying

Healing through literature:A Review of Edwidge Danticat’s cathartic family memoir, Brother, I’m Dying.New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007...
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