Category: France
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Gaël Octavia wins Prix Goncourt Printemps 2025
Gaël Octavia’s L’étrangeté de Mathilde T is a Prix Goncourt Printemps 2025 winner; the announcement was made in Paris, France, on Tuesday, May 6, 2025. The Société littéraire des Goncourt (Goncourt Literary Society), usually called the Académie Goncourt (Goncourt Academy), is a literary organisation founded by French writer and publisher Edmond de Goncourt in Paris…
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Hubert Haddad wins Prix Littéraire Montluc Résistance et Liberté 2025
Hubert Haddad’s novel La Symphonie Atlantique won Prix Littéraire Montluc Résistance et Liberté 2025 in Lyon, France on Tuesday, April 8, 2025. 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,…
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Amira Ghenim wins Prix Fragonard de Littérature étrangère 2025
Amira Ghenim’s novel Le Désastre de la Maison des Notables won Prix Fragonard de Littérature étrangère 2025 in Paris, France on Thursday, April 3, 2025. Prix Fragonard de Littérature étrangère (English: Fragonard Prize for Foreign Literature) is a French literary prize that rewards a book written by a woman, translated into French and published in…
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Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse wins Franz-Hessel-Preis 2024
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse’s book Le Convoi won Franz-Hessel-Preis 2024 in Leipzig, Germany on Friday, March 28, 2025. Franz-Hessel-Preis or Franz Hessel Prize for Contemporary Literature is a literary prize of France and Germany for French and German authors, worth €10,000 per author. The prize was created as a tribute to the writer and translator Franz…
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Prix Littéraire Québec-France Marie-Claire Blais 2025 longlist announced
Eve Guerra, Yasmina Liassine, and Gyslain Ngueno are on the Prix Littéraire Québec-France Marie-Claire Blais 2025 longlist announced on Wednesday, February 19, 2025. Marie-Claire Blais was a Canadian writer, novelist, poet, and playwright from the province of Quebec. In a career spanning seventy years, she wrote novels, plays, collections of poetry and fiction, newspaper articles,…
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Salon du Livre Africain de Paris 2025 starts March 14.
Salon du Livre Africain de Paris 2025 with the theme “Diaspora travel(s)” will be held in the European city from March 14 – 16, 2025. Salon du Livre Africain de Paris (English: African Book Fair in Paris) is dedicated to publishers, booksellers, libraries, research centres, and institutions representing the African publishing and cultural world. First…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…