Tag: literary
Best literary sales: the great return of yesterday’s bestsellers
It’s amazing, how readers fuse on “safe” values. Not content with acclaiming the winners of the autumn grand prizes (Giuliano da Empoli, 270,000 copies sold of Kremlin Magethe live fast…
Best literary sales: a market that is struggling to take off as Christmas approaches
One more effort, fellow readers. You only have three short weeks left to make authors, publishers and booksellers smile. As of December 4, the closing date of our weekly rankings,…
Caroline Laurent, anger, as a literary weapon
Caroline Laurent is Franco-Mauritian. After the success of her book co-written with Évelyne Pisier, And suddenly freedom (Les Escales, 2017) translated in many countries, she has published Shore of Wrath…
Beirut Books, a French-speaking literary festival in a country in the midst of a crisis
Writers of 18 mainly French-speaking nationalities will be the guests of Beirut Books, a French-speaking literary festival … A new itinerant literary meeting in the Lebanese capital … a ray…
2022 literary season: Africa-Caribbean-Black America (1)
Less rich than in previous years, this year’s literary season offers 490 new titles, including 345 French novels for 135 foreigners. The black world occupies a privileged place in this…
a literary return “worried” for the book, but with star authors
It’s the traditional literary season in France: 490 new novels will be published by mid-October. The figure is lower than usual, 30 less than last year, and 150 less than…
Literary back to school 2022: “It’s a lottery by definition”
After an exceptional year for the world of French publishing, only 490 novels are expected at the start of the 2022 academic year. The headliners are called Virginie Despentes with…
Amazon slammed over literary forgery scandal
Clothing, sneakers, leather goods, luxury goods… The counterfeit market is running at full speed on Amazon, the e-commerce giant. A daily survey Le Figaro reveals that publishing is also affected…
A special literary start in France
No respite for booksellers after the holidays. Over 540 new novels land in January. A plethora of literary re-entry that breaks all records. There will be competition between star writers…
Biography | Margaret Atwood – Novelist, poet, literary critic, teacher
Daughter of Carl Edmund Atwood, entomologist, and Margaret Dorothy Killiam, former nutritionist, Margaret Eleanor “Peggy” Atwood was born at the end of 1939 in the city of Ontario, Canada. This…