Tag: Literary awards
British writer Samantha Harvey won the Booker prize for literature | News in brief
This year’s Booker literary prize has been won by a 49-year-old British author Samantha Harvey from his novel Orbital. The novel follows six astronauts from Japan, Russia, the United States,…
Bernardine Evaristo, neither master nor slave
Bernardine Evaristo was born in Great Britain to a Nigerian father and an English mother. Militant, activist, playwright, she co-founded the Théâtre des Femmes Noires in 1982 and created the…
Paul Pavlowitch, a writer’s life between Émile Ajar and Romain Gary
Paul Pavlowitch is a writer. All Immortals is his seventh book. He embodied the character of Émile Ajar, author’s name of the novel among others The life ahead (Prix Goncourt…
On the front page: Olivier Faure’s pole position which reinforces the anchoring on the left of the PS
The horizon is clearing up for Olivier Faure at the head of the Socialist Party in France. He who directs it, curled the absolute majority in the first ballot of…
Brigitte Giraud, winner of the Prix Goncourt 2022 with “Live fast”
Brigitte Giraud is the thirteenth writer to be crowned with the Prix Goncourt since its creation in 1903. Author of a dozen books and texts for young people, she received…
Sully Quay, on the trail of black prisoners in the camps
An English teacher and writer, Sully Quay has lived in South Korea, Poland and Hungary, an experience she recounted in her story “I’m an Expat and So What?“. She has…
Unpublished portrait of Romain Gary seen and told by Kerwin Spire
Special program “Romain Gary”, born Roman Kacew in Vilnius in 1914, diplomat and author of an important literary work of which The roots of heaven (Prix Goncourt 1956) and under…
Claudie Hunzinger, winner of the Prix Femina for “A dog at my table”
Writer and visual artist, Claudie Hunzinger is the author of numerous books, including, at Grasset, They lived in hope (2010), Survival (2012), The language of birds (2014), the incandescent (2016)…
Brigitte Giraud, winner of the Prix Goncourt 2022 with “Live fast”
Brigitte Giraud is the thirteenth writer to be crowned with the Prix Goncourt since its creation in 1903. Author of around ten books and texts for young people, she received…
the Goncourt 2022 prize awarded to Brigitte Giraud for her book “Vivre vite”
This is the most anticipated literary prize of the season. The Goncourt 2022 prize was awarded to Brigitte Giraud for her book live fast. The selection was narrowed down to…