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Prix Médicis
The Prix Médicis () is a French literary award given each year in November. It was founded in 1958 by and . (Archive.org 17 July 2011] It is awarded to an author whose "fame does not yet match his talent". The award goes to a work of fiction initially published in the French language. In 1970 the ''Prix Médicis étranger'' was added to recognize a book published in translation. The ''Prix Médicis essai'' has been awarded since 1985 for non-fiction works. Laureates ''Prix Médicis'' Laureates ''Prix Médicis étranger'' Laureates ''Prix Médicis essai'' References {{DEFAULTSORT:Prix Medicis French fiction award ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Ollier which he received for his novel ''La Mise en scène.''
Ollier died on 18 October 2014, according to his publisher. He was 91.Claude Ollier (; 17 December 1922 – 18 October 2014) was a French writer closely associated with the nouveau roman literary movement. Born in Paris, he was the first winner of the Prix Médicis The Prix Médicis () is a French literary award given each year in November. It was founded in 1958 by and . Works *''La Mise en scène'' (1958). ''The Mise-en-Scène'', trans. Dominic Di Bernardi (Dalkey Archive, 1988) *''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Duvert
Tony Duvert (2 July 1945 – August 2008) was a French writer and philosopher. In the 1970s he achieved some renown, winning the Prix Médicis in 1973 for his novel ''Paysage de Fantaisie''. Duvert's writings are notable both for their style and core themes: the celebration and defence of paedophilia, and criticism of modern child-rearing. In the 1970s, attitudes to sexual liberation and child sexuality allowed Duvert to express himself publicly. However, when attitudes altered markedly in the 1980s, he was left feeling frustrated and oppressed. Youth and early writings Tony Duvert was born on 2 July 1945 in Villeneuve-le-Roi, Val-de-Marne. As a child, he was shy and withdrawn, but later wrote that his sex life began when he was eight. Expelled from school at twelve for carrying out sexual acts with other boys, he was sent by his parents to a psychiatrist for treatment: the methods used he described as brutal and humiliating. He ran away from home and attempted suicide. In 1961, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Combescot
Pierre Combescot (9 January 1940 Limoges – 27 June 2017) was a French journalist and writer. He worked for the ''Canard Enchaîné'', under the pseudonym Luc Décygnes. He was also a columnist in ''Paris Match''. Awards * 1986 Prix Médicis, for ''The Funeral of the Sardine'' * 1991Prix Goncourt
The Prix Goncourt ( , "The Goncourt Prize") is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year". The prize carries a symbolic reward of only 10 euros, but resul ...
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Michel Braudeau
Michel Braudeau (; born 1946 in Niort) is a French writer.https://www.gallimard.fr/Contributeurs/Michel-Braudeau (page visited on 19 August 2013). He was editor-in-chief of the ''Nouvelle revue française'', from 1999 to 2010. Works * ''L'Amazone'', Paris, éditions du Seuil, coll. « Écrire », 1966, 70 p. (). Epuisé, rééd. Points, 1988 () * ''Vaulascar'', Paris, éditions du Seuil, coll. « Cadre rouge », 1977, 318 p. (). * ''Passage de la Main- d'Or'', Paris, éditions du Seuil, 1980, 219 p. (). * ''Fantôme d'une puce'', Paris, éditions du Seuil, coll. « Cadre rouge », 1982, 248 p. (). * ''Naissance d'une passion'', Paris, éditions du Seuil, coll. « Cadre rouge », 1985, 474 p. (). Prix Médicis 1985. * ''L'objet perdu de l'amour'', Paris, éditions du Seuil, coll. « Cadre rouge », 1988, 535 p. (). * ''Malaval, Bouchemaine'', France, Présence de l'art contemporain, 1989. * ''Le Livre de John'', Paris, éditions du Seuil, coll. « Cadre rouge », 1992, 307 p. ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard-Henri Lévy
Bernard-Henri Georges Lévy (; ; born 5 November 1948) is a French public intellectual. Often referred to in France simply as BHL, he was one of the leaders of the " Nouveaux Philosophes" (New Philosophers) movement in 1976. His opinions, political activism, and publications have also been the subject of several controversies over the years. Life and career Early life and career Lévy was born in 1948 in Béni Saf, French Algeria, to an affluent Sephardic Jewish ( Algerian-Jewish) family. His family moved to Paris a few months after his birth. He is the son of Dina (Siboni) and André Lévy, the founder and manager of a timber company, Becob, and became a multimillionaire from his business. He is the brother of . Inspired by a call for an International Brigade to aid Bangladeshi separatists made by André Malraux, he became a war correspondent for ''Combat'' in 1971, covering the Bangladesh Liberation War against Pakistan. The next year he worked as a civil servant for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Echenoz
Jean Echenoz (; born 26 December 1947) is a French writer. Biography Jean Echenoz was born in Orange, Vaucluse, the son of a psychiatrist, He studied in Rodez, Digne-les-Bains, Lyon, Aix-en-Provence, Marseille and Paris, where he has lived since 1970. He published his first book, '' Le Méridien de Greenwich'' in 1979, for which he received the Fénéon Prize in 1980. He has published twelve novels to date and received about ten literary prizes, including the Prix Médicis 1983 for ''Cherokee'', the Prix Goncourt 1999 for '' I'm Gone'' (''Je m'en vais''), and the Aristeion Prize for '' Chopin's Move'' (''Lac'') (1989). Works Novels and narratives (''récits'') * '' Le Méridien de Greenwich'' (Minuit, 1979) * ''Cherokee'' (Minuit, 1983) (Godine, 1987; reprinted, University of Nebraska Press, 1994) * '' L'Équipée malaise'' (Minuit, 1986) ''Double Jeopardy'' (Godine, 1993; reprinted, University of Nebraska Press, 1994) * '' L'Occupation des sols'' (Minuit, 1988) ''Plan of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-François Josselin
Jean-François Josselin was a French writer and journalist. He was born in Brest in 1939. He worked at the periodicals ''L'Express'' and ''Le Nouvel Observateur''. He was the author of books such as ''L'Enfer et compagnie'' (Prix Médicis 1982), ''La Mer au large, Encore un instant'' (1992), and ''Les petites horreurs'' (1997). He also wrote a play in 1993, titled ''La fortune du pot'', and a biography of Simone Signoret in 1995. He was a long-time participant in the literary TV show ''Boîte aux lettres'', which was emceed by Jérôme Garcin and which ran on France 3 France 3 () is a French free-to-air Public broadcasting, public television network. The second flagship network of France Télévisions, it broadcasts a wide range of general and specialized programming. France 3 is structured as a Region ... between 1983 and 1987. He died in Brest in 2003. References French writers 1939 births 2003 deaths Prix Médicis winners {{France-journalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François-Olivier Rousseau
François-Olivier Rousseau (born 20 September 1947, Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French journalist and writer. Biography A young literary critic at ''Le Matin de Paris'' at the end of the 1970s, he became a novelist, met with success immediately and collected several literary prizes. He then left Paris for the Isle of Man where he settled in the capital, Douglas, a town of barely more than 20,000 inhabitants. He devotes himself only to the writing between two voyages. French detesting France, a specialist in the period from Napoleon III to the First World War (which he considers to be "an accident that is incomprehensible to me, I try to understand what could have provoked this manifestation of the death instinct of the West and I like to dream what would have been this century without the war"), he particularly likes to depict with many details the lives of artists going through this era. The Éditions du Seuil published a novelization of the film he co-wrote, ''Children of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Lahougue
Jean Lahougue (born 27 November 1945 in Paris) is a French writer. He has been teaching in Mayenne since 1979. In 1980, he declined the Prix Médicis for his book ''Comptine des Height''. Work * ''Argos et Athanor'', Éditions Gallimard, 1973 * ''La Visite du château et autres romans'', Gallimard, 1975 * ''La Polonaise'', Gallimard, 1976 * ''Non-lieu dans un paysage'', Gallimard, 1977. ''Vacated Landscape'', trans. K. E. Gormley (Wakefield Press, 2024). * ''Comptine des Height'', NRF, Gallimard, 1980. He took over the master plan of the '' Ten Little Niggers'' by Agatha Christie. * ''La doublure de Magrite'' Les Impressions Nouvelles, series Traverses, 1987. Novel built on a system of generative constraints, one of which led him to pastiche the series of ''Maigret''. Georges Simenon having categorically opposed the publication of the book, Lahougue had to rename his protagonist and partially modify his work. * ''La ressemblance et autres abus de langage'', Les Impressions nouv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Durand
Claude Durand (1938–2015) was a French publisher, translator and writer. He worked in the French film industry editing films and occasionally writing and directing. He published leading authors such as Solzhenitsyn and Houellebecq, and together with his wife Carmen, he translated the standard French edition of Gabriel García Márquez's novel ''One Hundred Years of Solitude''. As a writer, he won the 1979 Prix Médicis for his novel ''La Nuit zoologique''. As Solzhenitsyn's literary agent (Editions Fayard) since 2003 he acted as an intermediary with "Moscow" when Edward Ericson Jr. and Daniel Mahoney were preparing ''The Solzhenitsyn Reader''. A substantial part of the notes (remarks) on the ''Journal of the Red Wheel'' are of his hand.Alexandre Soljénitsyne, ''Journal de la Roue Rouge'' (Fayard, Paris 2018), p. 10. Selected filmography * ''Anyone Can Kill Me'' (1957) * ''Folies-Bergère (1957 film), Folies-Bergère'' (1957) * ''Nathalie, Secret Agent'' (1959) Publication ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Perec
Georges Perec (; 7 March 1936 – 3 March 1982) was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group. His father died as a soldier early in the Second World War and his mother was killed in the Holocaust. Many of his works deal with absence, loss, and identity, often through word play. Early life Born in a working-class district of Paris, Perec was the only son of Icek Judko and Cyrla (Schulewicz) Peretz, Polish Jews who had emigrated to France in the 1920s. He was a distant relative of the Yiddish writer Isaac Leib Peretz. Perec's father, who enlisted in the French Army during World War II, died in 1940 from untreated gunfire or shrapnel wounds, and his mother was killed in the Holocaust, probably in Auschwitz sometime after 1943. Perec was taken into the care of his paternal aunt and uncle in 1942, and in 1945, he was formally adopted by them. Career Perec started writing reviews and essays for ''La Nouvelle Revue français ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Butel
Michel Butel (19 September 1940 – 26 July 2018) was a French journalist and novelist. He won the Prix Médicis for ''L'Autre amour'' in 1977. He was the founding editor of '' L'Autre Journal'', a political and literary magazine, from 1984 to 1993. He was also the founding editor of ''L'Impossible'' from 2011 to 2013. Biography Michel Butel was born in Tarbes in 1940 to a lawyer mother and a father who went on to found the Social security in France Social security () is divided by the Government of France, French government into five branches: illness; old age/retirement; family; work accident; and occupational disease. From an institutional point of view, France, French social security i .... He left school at the age of 14. Like his youthful friend Yves Janin, he failed as a teenager at the psycho-pedagogical institute in Saint-Maximin (Oise), then founded a protest and poetic journal, “La Cascade”."Réfractaires à la guerre d’Algérie (1954‑1962). Insoumissions, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
