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Simone Gallimard
Simone Gallimard (née Cornu; 5 December 1917 – 22 October 1995 ) was a French editor, leader of the Mercure de France. '''' (24 October 1995) Career Gallimard was the daughter of , a politician and a senior French official who was a senator, deputy before the war and secretary of state for fine arts in different governments, between 1951 and 1954. In 1939, she married , son of |
Étampes
Étampes () is a commune in the metropolitan area of Paris, France. It is located south-southwest from the center of Paris (as the crow flies). Étampes is a sub-prefecture of the Essonne department. Étampes, together with the neighboring communes of Morigny-Champigny and Brières-les-Scellés, form an urban area of 30,881 inhabitants (2018). This urban area is a "satellite city" of Paris. History Étampes () existed at the beginning of the 7th century and in the early Middle Ages belonged to the crown domain. During the Middle Ages it was the scene of several councils, the most notable of which took place in 1130 and resulted in the recognition of Innocent II as the legitimate pope. In 1652, during the war of the Fronde it suffered severely at the hands of the royal troops under Turenne. Geography Étampes lies on the river Chalouette, a tributary of the Juine, which borders the eastern outskirts of the serene town. Inhabitants of Étampes are known as ''Étampois' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prix Goncourt
The Prix Goncourt (french: Le 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 results in considerable recognition and book sales for the winning author. Four other prizes are also awarded: prix Goncourt du Premier Roman (first novel), prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle (short story), prix Goncourt de la Poésie (poetry) and prix Goncourt de la Biographie (biography). Of the "big six" French literary awards, the Prix Goncourt is the best known and most prestigious. The other major literary prizes include the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française, the Prix Femina, the Prix Renaudot, the Prix Interallié and the Prix Médicis. History Edmond de Goncourt, a successful author, critic, and publisher, bequeathed his estate for the foundation and maintenance of the Académie Goncourt. In honour of hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Humanité
''L'Humanité'' (; ), is a French daily newspaper. It was previously an organ of the French Communist Party, and maintains links to the party. Its slogan is "In an ideal world, ''L'Humanité'' would not exist." History and profile Pre-World War II ''L'Humanité'' was founded in 1902 by Jean Jaurès, a leader of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO). Jaurès also edited the paper until his assassination on 31 July 1914. When the Socialists split at the 1920 Tours Congress, the Communists took control of ''L'Humanité''. Therefore, it became a communist paper despite its socialist origin. The PCF has published it ever since. The PCF owns 40 per cent of the paper with the remaining shares held by staff, readers and "friends" of the paper. The paper is also sustained by the annual ''Fête de l'Humanité'', held in the working class suburbs of Paris, at Le Bourget, near Aubervilliers, and to a lesser extent elsewhere in the country. The fortunes of ''L'Humanit� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Échos (France)
''Les Echos'' is the first daily French financial newspaper, founded in 1908 by the brothers Robert and Émile Servan-Schreiber. It is the main competitor of ''La Tribune'', a rival financial paper. History and profile The paper was established as a monthly publication under the name of ''Les Échos de l'Exportation'' by the brothers Robert and Émile Servan-Schreiber in 1908. It became a daily newspaper in 1928 and was renamed as ''Les Echos''. The newspaper was bought by the British media group Pearson PLC in 1988, and was sold to the French luxury goods conglomerate LVMH in November 2007. The publisher of the paper is Les Echos Le Parisien Médias. ''Les Echos'' has a Liberalism, liberal stance and is published on weekdays. The paper is headquartered in Paris and has a website which was launched in 1996. The paper publishes economical analyses by leading economists, including Joseph Stiglitz and Kenneth Rogoff. In September 2003, ''Les Echos'' switched from tabloid format to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romain Gary
Romain Gary (; 2 December 1980), born Roman Kacew (, and also known by the pen name Émile Ajar), was a French novelist, diplomat, film director, and World War II aviator. He is the only author to have won the Prix Goncourt under two names. He is considered a major writer of French literature of the second half of the 20th century. He was married to Lesley Blanch, then Jean Seberg. Early life Gary was born Roman Kacew ( yi, ''Roman Katsev'', russian: link=no, Рома́н Ле́йбович Ка́цев, ''Roman Leibovich Katsev'') in Vilnius (at that time in the Russian Empire). In his books and interviews, he presented many different versions of his parents' origins, ancestry, occupation and his own childhood. His mother, Mina Owczyńska (1879—1941), was a Jewish actress from Švenčionys (Svintsyán) and his father was a businessman named Arieh-Leib Kacew (1883—1942) from Trakai (Trok), also a Lithuanian Jew. The couple broke in 1925 and Arieh-Leib remarried. Gary l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Jacques
Paula Jacques (born Paula Abadi on 8 May 1949) is a French novelist, journalist, and host of the program ''Cosmopolitaine'' on the French public station ''France Inter''. Jacques was born in Cairo, Egypt. She and her family were expelled from Egypt in 1957 during the period of nationalization under President Gamal Abdel Nasser. The family immigrated to Israel where Jacques lived on a kibbutz for three years. In 1961, Jacques and her family left Israel for France. Jacques' novels focus exclusively on the Jews of Egypt, mainly during the 1940s and 1950s. Her novels can be described as reflecting the postcolonial condition. In the novels, both Egyptian Jews and Muslims interact in day-to-day activity. In a few novels, like ''Gilda Stambouli souffre et se plaint'' (2002)and ''Un Baiser froid comme la lune'' (1983), Jacques takes her characters from Egypt to France and Israel where they face issues of acculturation. The characters' relationship to French language and culture is probl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jocelyne François
Jocelyne François (born 1933 in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle) is a French writer. She is the author of five lesbian novels, and winner of the Prix Femina. Career François was born in Nancy as the eldest of three children; early on in her schooling she gave evidence of great memory and a gift for writing. After six years in Catholic boarding school, where she met her future partner Marie-Claire Pichaud, she studied philosophy in Nancy and married, more or less for convenience: the two oldest children of this marriage were raised by their father, the youngest by François and her partner. Her partner is a painter, whose artistic sensitivities greatly influenced François, who embarked on a career as a writer. A turning moment was meeting poet René Char in the 1960s. François and Pichaud lived in Saumane-de-Vaucluse for twenty-five years before moving to Paris in 1985, amid health problems. Her first novel was ''Les Bonheurs'', published in 1970 with Laffont and republished ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Faraggi
Claude Faraggi (28 May 1942 – 14 December 1991) was a French writer best known for his 1975 novel, ''Le Maître d'heure'', which won the Prix Femina. Works * 1965: ''Les Dieux du sable'' * 1967: ''Le Jour du fou'' * 1969: ''L'Effroi'' * 1971: ''Le Signe de la bête'', (awarded Fénéon Prize, 1972) * 1975: '' Le Maître d'heure'', (awarded Prix Femina The Prix Femina is a French literary prize created in 1904 by 22 writers for the magazine '' La Vie heureuse'' (today known as '' Femina''). The prize is decided each year by an exclusively female jury. They reward French-language works written ...) * 1992: ''L'Eau et les Cendres'' * 1992: ''Le Passage de l'ombre'' * 1992: ''Les Feux et les Présages'' * 1992: ''La Saison des oracles'' References Writers from Clermont-Ferrand 1942 births 1991 deaths Prix Femina winners 20th-century French novelists French male novelists Prix Fénéon winners 20th-century French male writers {{france-novelist-20thC-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prix Femina
The Prix Femina is a French literary prize created in 1904 by 22 writers for the magazine ''La Vie heureuse'' (today known as '' Femina''). The prize is decided each year by an exclusively female jury. They reward French-language works written in prose or verse, by both women and men. The winner is announced on the first Wednesday of November each year. Prix Femina–Vie Heureuse After the Great War, in 1919 Librairie Hachette proposed to the allied countries to create a similar prize. Great Britain accepted, and the first meeting of its jury was held on 20 June 1920. The prize was called the Prix Femina–Vie Heureuse, and it was awarded to English writers, from 1920 to 1939. Among the winners were E. M. Forster in 1925 and Virginia Woolf in 1928. Similarly, in 1920 Lady Northcliffe, wife of Alfred Harmsworth, proposed to create a prize for French writers called the Northcliffe prize. Among the winners were Joseph Kessel in 1924, Julien Green in 1928, and Jean Giono in 19 ... [...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 cowrote, ''Children of the ... [...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 The Prix Médicis is a French literary award given each year in November. It was founded in 1958 by and . It is awarded to an author whose "fame does not yet match his talent." The award goes to a work of fiction in the French language. In 19 ... 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. References 1940 births 2018 deaths People from Tarbes 20th-century French journalists French male journalists 20th-century French novelists French male novelists French magazine editors Prix Médicis winners {{France-journalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prix Médicis
The Prix Médicis is a French literary award given each year in November. It was founded in 1958 by and . It is awarded to an author whose "fame does not yet match his talent." The award goes to a work of fiction 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'' *1958 – ''La Mise en scène'' – Claude Ollier *1959 – ''Le Dîner en ville'' – Claude Mauriac *1960 – ''John Perkins suivi : d'un scrupule'' – Henri Thomas *1961 – ''Le Parc'' – Philippe Sollers *1962 – ''Derrière la baignoire'' – Colette Audry *1963 – ''Un chat qui aboie'' – Gérard Jarlot *1964 – ''L'Opoponax'' – Monique Wittig *1965 – ''La Rhubarbe'' – René-Victor Pilhes *1966 – '' Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel'' – Marie-Claire Blais, Canada *1967 – ''Histoire'' – Claude Simon *1968 – ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
