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L'Art Français De La Guerre
''The French Art of War'' () is a 2011 novel by the French writer Alexis Jenni, published by Éditions Gallimard. It is an adventure story about the military history of France in Indochina and Algeria. It received the Prix Goncourt, with five votes to three against Carole Martinez's '. It was published in English by Atlantic Books as ''The French Art of War'' (translated by Frank Wynne). Background ''L'Art français de la guerre'' was the third novel written by Alexis Jenni, a high-school biology teacher, although the first published. He had previously written one which he never submitted to a publisher, and one which was not accepted. According to Jenni, ''L'Art français de la guerre'' took five years to write. He considers himself a "Sunday writer, just as there are Sunday painters." The novel was partly inspired by the debate on French national identity, announced by President Nicolas Sarkozy’s government. Jenni wanted readers to think about the issue of national identity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexis Jenni
Alexis Jenni (born 1963) is a French people, French novelist and biology teacher. His debut novel, ''The French Art of War'', won the 2011 Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary award. Biography Jenni was born in 1963 in Lyon, France, Lyon, France. A father of three, he has a degree in biology, and is a professor in the life sciences at the Lycée Saint-Marc, Lyon, Lycée Saint-Marc in Lyon. Works ''The French Art of War'' His debut novel, ''L'Art français de la guerre'' (''The French Art of War'') was published on 18 August 2011, and was awarded the Prix Goncourt on 2 November 2011. In reaction to the award, Jenni said "I didn't even think I would be published, so the Goncourt wasn't even worth thinking about." The novel deals with France's colonial history in French Indochina, Indochina and French Algeria, Algeria, and was partly inspired by the debate on French identity that developed under the government of President of France, President Nicolas Sarkozy. Rather ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Figaro
() is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826. It was named after Figaro, a character in several plays by polymath Pierre Beaumarchais, Beaumarchais (1732–1799): ''Le Barbier de Séville'', ''The Guilty Mother, La Mère coupable'', and the eponym, eponymous ''The Marriage of Figaro (play), Le Mariage de Figaro''. One of his lines became the paper's motto: "Without the freedom to criticise, there is no flattering praise". The oldest national newspaper in France, is considered a French newspaper of record, along with and ''Libération''. Since 2004, the newspaper has been owned by Dassault Group. Its editorial director has been Alexis Brézet since 2012. ''Le Figaro'' is the second-largest national newspaper in France, after ''Le Monde''. It has a Centre-right politics, centre-right editorial stance and is headquartered on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. Other Groupe Figaro publications include ''Le Figaro Magazine'', ''TV Magazine'' and ''Eve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French-language Novels
French ( or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. Like all other Romance languages, it descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. French evolved from Northern Old Gallo-Romance, a descendant of the Latin spoken in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French ( Francien) largely supplanted. It was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul and by the Germanic Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders. As a result of French and Belgian colonialism from the 16th century onward, it was introduced to new territories in the Americas, Africa, and Asia, and numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole, were established. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Francophone in both English and French. French is an official language in 26 countries, as well as one of the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 Debut Novels
Eleven or 11 may refer to: *11 (number) * One of the years 11 BC, AD 11, 1911, 2011 Literature * ''Eleven'' (novel), a 2006 novel by British author David Llewellyn *''Eleven'', a 1970 collection of short stories by Patricia Highsmith *''Eleven'', a 2004 children's novel in The Winnie Years by Lauren Myracle *''Eleven'', a 2008 children's novel by Patricia Reilly Giff *''Eleven'', a short story by Sandra Cisneros Music * Eleven (band), an American rock band * Eleven: A Music Company, an Australian record label * Up to eleven, an idiom from popular culture, coined in the movie ''This Is Spinal Tap'' Albums * ''11'' (The Smithereens album), 1989 * ''11'' (Ua album), 1996 * ''11'' (Bryan Adams album), 2008 * ''11'' (Sault album), 2022 * ''Eleven'' (Harry Connick, Jr. album), 1992 * ''Eleven'' (22-Pistepirkko album), 1998 * ''Eleven'' (Sugarcult album), 1999 * ''Eleven'' (B'z album), 2000 * ''Eleven'' (Reamonn album), 2010 * ''Eleven'' (Martina McBride album), 2011 * ''Eleven'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 French Novels
Eleven or 11 may refer to: *11 (number) * One of the years 11 BC, AD 11, 1911, 2011 Literature * ''Eleven'' (novel), a 2006 novel by British author David Llewellyn *''Eleven'', a 1970 collection of short stories by Patricia Highsmith *''Eleven'', a 2004 children's novel in The Winnie Years by Lauren Myracle *''Eleven'', a 2008 children's novel by Patricia Reilly Giff *''Eleven'', a short story by Sandra Cisneros Music *Eleven (band), an American rock band * Eleven: A Music Company, an Australian record label *Up to eleven, an idiom from popular culture, coined in the movie ''This Is Spinal Tap'' Albums * ''11'' (The Smithereens album), 1989 * ''11'' (Ua album), 1996 * ''11'' (Bryan Adams album), 2008 * ''11'' (Sault album), 2022 * ''Eleven'' (Harry Connick, Jr. album), 1992 * ''Eleven'' (22-Pistepirkko album), 1998 * ''Eleven'' (Sugarcult album), 1999 * ''Eleven'' (B'z album), 2000 * ''Eleven'' (Reamonn album), 2010 * ''Eleven'' (Martina McBride album), 2011 * ''Eleven'' (Mr Fogg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporary French Literature
This article is about French literature from the year 2000 to the present day. Overview The economic, political and social crises of contemporary France -terrorism, violence, immigration, unemployment, racism, etc.—and (for some) the notion that France has lost its sense of identity and international prestige—through the rise of American hegemony, the growth of Europe and of global capitalism ()—have created what some critics (like Nancy Huston) have seen as a new form of detached nihilism, reminiscent of the 50s and 60s (Samuel Beckett, Beckett, Emil Cioran, Cioran). The best known of these authors is Michel Houellebecq, whose ''Atomised'' () was a major international phenomenon. These tendencies have also come under attack. In one of her essays, Nancy Huston criticises Houellebecq for his nihilism; she also makes an acerbic censure of his novels in her work ''The teachers of despair'' (). Although the contemporary social and political context can be felt in recent wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2011. Events *June 7 – Ransom Riggs publishes his young-adult novel ''Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children'', which pins its narrative around a series of earlier vernacular photography, private photographs he had collected. It remains top of ''The New York Times'' Children's Chapter Books list for 45 weeks and founds a series of five novels. *July – J. K. Rowling ends her relationship with her long-standing agent Christopher Little Literary Agency, Christopher Little and joins his rival, Neil Blair (agent), Neil Blair. *September 24 – The first 100 Thousand Poets for Change Day takes place, the organization having been founded by Michael Rothenberg and Terri Carrion in March. *November 12 – The Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar Literature Museum Library opens in Istanbul, Turkey. New books Fiction *Chris Adrian – ''The Great Night (novel), The Great Night'' *David Almond – ''The True Tale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Birnbaum
Jean Birnbaum (born 1974) is a French journalist. Career Birnbaum started his career in 1997 at France Culture, working on the daily piece ''Staccato'', before working on various other broadcasts. In 1999, he joined ''Le Monde''. In 2009, he was promoted to aid chief for non-fiction and humanities at ''Monde des livres''. Between 2009 and 2011, he chronicled in ''Pop’ Philosophie'' of ''Monde magazine''. In 2011, he rose to director of ''Monde des livres'', a position he has retained as to 2016. He furthermore took part in the organisation of the "Rencontres de Pétrarque", a yearly one-week meeting in Montpellier organised by ''Le Monde'' and France Culture where academics and politicians debate current questions. From 2007, Birnbaum has coordinated and taken part in the philosophy forum of ''Le Monde'' – Le Mans. The event, started in 1989, is a three-day meeting of philosophers, historians, anthropologists, scientists, artists and actors where philosophical questions a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammed Aïssaoui
Mohammed Aïssaoui at Rheims, 2021 Mohammed Aïssaoui (born 1964, Algiers) is a French writer and journalist. He is currently working for ''Le Figaro littéraire''. Works *2006: . *2010: . ** Prix Renaudot de l'essai 2010. ** Prix RFO du livre 2010.. *2012: . *2014: ''Petit éloge des souvenirs'', Gallimard, 128 p. *2015: . Theatrical adaptation ''L'Affaire de l'esclave Furcy'' has been adapted to the theatre and directed by and Patrick Le Mauff, in coproduction with in Paris, where it was performed from 20 November to 15 December 2012, before touring in 2013 at La Réunion, then Chambéry. References External links ''Mohammed Aïssaoui : le joli devoir de mémoire''on ''Le Figaro () is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826. It was named after Figaro, a character in several plays by polymath Pierre Beaumarchais, Beaumarchais (1732–1799): ''Le Barbier de Séville'', ''The Guilty Mother, La Mère coupable'', ...'' (28 August 2014) Mohammed Aïss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Tahar Ben Jelloun (; born 1 December 1944) is a Moroccan writer who rose to fame for his 1985 novel ''L'Enfant de sable'' ('' The Sand Child''). All of his work is written in French although his first language is Darija. He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Early life and career Tahar Ben Jelloun was born in Morocco in December 1944. As a child, he attended an Arabic-French bilingual elementary school. He then studied in the Lycée Regnault in Tangier, Morocco, until he was 18 years old. He studied philosophy at Mohammed V University in Rabat. After he was a professor of philosophy in Morocco, he joined the group that ran the literary magazine '' Souffles'' in the mid-1960s, and he wrote many pieces for the cultural magazine. He later participated in the student rebellion against the repressive and violent acts of the Moroccan police. In 1966, he was forced into military service as his punishment. Five years later, his first poems were published in ''Homm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa ( ; ; born 28 January 1955) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2007 to 2012. In 2021, he was found guilty of having tried to bribe a judge in 2014 to obtain information and spending beyond legal campaign funding limits during his 2012 re-election campaign. Born in Paris, his roots are 1/2 Hungarian Protestant, 1/4 Greek Jewish, and 1/4 French Catholic. Mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine from 1983 to 2002, he was Ministry of the Economy and Finance (France), Minister of the Budget under Prime Minister Édouard Balladur (1993–1995) during François Mitterrand's second term. During Jacques Chirac's second presidential term, he served as Minister of the Interior (France), Minister of the Interior and as Minister of Finances (France), Minister of Finances. He was the leader of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party from 2004 to 2007. He won the 2007 French presidential election by a 53.1% to 46.9% margin agai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Wynne
Frank Wynne (born 1962) is an Irish literary translator and writer. Biography Born in County Sligo in the west of Ireland, Frank Wynne worked as a comics editor at Fleetway and later at comic magazine '' Deadline''. He worked for a time at AOL, before becoming a literary translator. He has translated many authors, including Michel Houellebecq, Boualem Sansal, Frédéric Beigbeder and the late Ivoirian novelist Ahmadou Kourouma. He has twice jointly won the International Dublin Literary Award: with Houellebecq for '' Atomised'' (his translation of ''Les Particules élémentaires''); and with Alice Zeniter for ''The Art of Losing'' (his translation of ''L'Art de Perdre''). His translation of Frédéric Beigbeder's '' Windows on the World'', a novel set in the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York during the September 11, 2001 attacks, won the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Notably, he is a two-time winner of both the Scott Moncrieff Translation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
