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Read Félix Fénéon's Novels in Three Lines on Twitter
Arts & Entertainment
December 3, 2009
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
Arts & Entertainment
November 5, 2009
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
Arts & Entertainment
October 27, 2009
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
Arts & Entertainment
October 23, 2009
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
Arts & Entertainment
October 21, 2009
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
Arts & Entertainment
October 8, 2009
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
Arts & Entertainment
October 8, 2009
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
Arts & Entertainment
October 6, 2009
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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