Category: France

  • Atlantide Literature Festival 2025 starts March 6

    Atlantide Literature Festival 2025 starts March 6

    The Atlantide Literature Festival 2025 with Alain Mabanckou returning as artistic director will be held in Nantes, France from March 6 – 9, 2025. The Atlantide Literature Festival has gathered dozens of international and French writers to the French city of Nantes since it was founded in 2013. For the period of the festival, the…

  • Prix Ahmadou Kourouma 2025 finalists announced

    Prix Ahmadou Kourouma 2025 finalists announced

    The Prix Ahmadou Kourouma 2025 finalists were announced in Geneva, Switzerland on Thursday, January 16, 2025. Ahmadou Kourouma was a legendary Ivorian novelist of many titles including Les Soleils des indépendances (1968), Le Diseur de verité (1972), and the most famous Allah n’est pas oblige (2000) which was translated to Allah Is Not Obliged. The…

  • Prix du Livre Européen et Méditerranéen 2024 finalists announced.

    Prix du Livre Européen et Méditerranéen 2024 finalists announced.

    Diadié Dembélé and Akli Tadjer are Prix du Livre Européen et Méditerranéen 2024 finalists; the announcement was made on Sunday, December 15, 2024. Prix du Livre Européen et Méditerranéen is a literary prize that rewards a European or Mediterranean book and helps to bring together the cultures of the two shores of the Mediterranean. Founded…

  • Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie 2025 finalists announced

    Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie 2025 finalists announced

    The Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie 2025 finalists were announced on Tuesday, December 10, 2024. Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie (English: Five Continents Prize of the Francophonie) was established by the International Organization of the Francophonie in 2001. Worth €15,000, it is aimed at highlighting literary talents reflecting the expression of…

  • Prix Littéraire Prix Montluc Résistance et liberté 2025 longlist announced

    Prix Littéraire Prix Montluc Résistance et liberté 2025 longlist announced

    The longlist for Prix Littéraire Prix Montluc Résistance et liberté 2025 was announced on Tuesday, November 26, 2024. Prix Montluc Resistance et Liberté (English: Montluc Resistance and Freedom Prize) is awarded to an author, whether French or foreign, whose work questions current methods of fighting against oppression in all its manifestations, or whose work represents…

  • Book Digest: Remy Ngamije, Mai Sennaar, Liss Kihindou, Nfol

    Book Digest: Remy Ngamije, Mai Sennaar, Liss Kihindou, Nfol

    In our regular Book Digest segment, we spotlight new books from Remy Ngamije, Mai Sennaar, Liss Kihindou, and Nfol. Only Stars Know the Meaning of Space: A Literary Mixtape by Remy Ngamije Publisher: Gallery/Scout PressDate: December 3, 2024Genre: Fiction, Short storiesLanguage: EnglishWhere to find it: Simon and Schuster, Apple Books Remy Ngamije Rémy Ngamije is…

  • Prix Littéraire Fetkann! Maryse Condé 2024 winners announced

    Prix Littéraire Fetkann! Maryse Condé 2024 winners announced

    Prix littéraire Fetkann! Maryse Condé 2024 winners were announced on Saturday, November 30, 2024. The Prix littéraire Fetkann Maryse Condé rewards the works, collections, research works or essays that promote the work of memory of the countries of the global South and all that goes in the direction of the promotion of human dignity in…

  • Gaël Faye wins Prix Renaudot 2024

    Gaël Faye wins Prix Renaudot 2024

    Gaël Faye’s second novel Jacarandawon Prix Renaudot 2024 in Paris, France on Monday, November 4, 2024. Prix Renaudot is a French literary prize awarded to the author of an outstanding original novel published in the previous year. It was created by ten art critics awaiting the results of deliberations of the Prix Goncourt jury in…

  • Kamel Daoud wins Prix Goncourt 2024

    Kamel Daoud wins Prix Goncourt 2024

    Kamel Daoud’s novel Houris is the Prix Goncourt 2024 winner; the announcement was made in Paris, France on Monday, November 4, 2024 The Prix Goncourt is given by the French Académie Goncourt to the author of “the best and most imaginative prose work of the year”. While it only has a token prize of around…

  • Book Digest: Léonora Miano, Duduzile Noeleen Ngwenya, Esinam Bediako, Evelyne Waithira Müller

    Book Digest: Léonora Miano, Duduzile Noeleen Ngwenya, Esinam Bediako, Evelyne Waithira Müller

    In our regular Book Digest segment, we spotlight new books from Léonora Miano, Duduzile Noeleen Ngwenya, Esinam Bediako, and Evelyne Waithira Müller. you get better with love by Duduzile Noeleen Ngwenya Publisher:  Pan Macmillan South AfricaDate:  October 8, 2024Genre:  PoetryLanguage:  EnglishWhere to find it:  Pan Macmillan South Africa Duduzile Noeleen Ngwenya Duduzile Noeleen Ngwenya is…

  • Kamel Daoud, Gaël Faye are Prix Goncourt 2024 finalists

    Kamel Daoud, Gaël Faye are Prix Goncourt 2024 finalists

    Prix Goncourt 2024 finalists Kamel Daoud and Gaël Faye were announced in Paris, France on Tuesday, October 22, 2024. The Prix Goncourt is given by the French Académie Goncourt to the author of “the best and most imaginative prose work of the year”. While it only has a token prize of around 10 Euros, it…

  • Abdellah Taïa, Amira Ghenim on Prix Médicis 2024 Deuxièmes Sélections

    Abdellah Taïa, Amira Ghenim on Prix Médicis 2024 Deuxièmes Sélections

    Abdellah Taïa and Amira Ghenim are on the deuxièmes selections for Prix Médicis 2024 announced on Wednesday, October 9, 2024 In 1958, French citizens Gala Barbisan and Jean-Pierre Giraudoux founded Prix Médicis to recognise a novel, a story, a collection of short stories by an author who does not yet have a notoriety corresponding to…

  • Hemley Boum wins Prix Louis Guilloux 2024

    Hemley Boum wins Prix Louis Guilloux 2024

    Hemley Boum’s novel Le rêve du pêcheur won Prix Louis-Guilloux 2024 on Friday, October 4, 2024 Louis Guilloux was a French writer known for his novels describing working-class life and political struggles in the mid-twentieth century. The legendary writer passed away in 1980 and three years later the Conseil Général of the Côtes-d’Armor, his hometown,…

  • Prix Goncourt 2024 Deuxième Selection announced

    Prix Goncourt 2024 Deuxième Selection announced

    The Deuxième Selection for Prix Goncourt 2024 was announced in Paris, France on Tuesday, October 1, 2024. The Prix Goncourt is given by the French Académie Goncourt to the author of “the best and most imaginative prose work of the year”. While it only has a token prize of around 10 Euros, it can increase…

  • Hemley Boum, Ruben Barrouk win at Livres En Vignes 2024

    Hemley Boum, Ruben Barrouk win at Livres En Vignes 2024

    Hemley Boum and Ruben Barroukwon in their categories at Livres En Vignes 2024 on Thursday, September 5, 2024. Livres en Vignes (Books in Vines), is the first book festival dedicated to general literature and that of wine, vines, and the art of living in the heart of the Burgundy vineyards, France. It brings together authors,…