Category: Tunisia
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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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Hubert Haddad is Prix Littéraire Montluc Résistance et Liberté 2025 finalist
Hubert Haddad was declared a Prix Littéraire Montluc Résistance et Liberté 2025 finalist on Tuesday, January 21, 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, or whose work represents…
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Prix Fragonard de Littérature étrangère 2025 premiere selection announced
The premiere selection of Prix Fragonard De Litterature Etrangere 2025 was announced on Monday, December 9, 2024. 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 France, to give more visibility to foreign women’s…
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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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Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2025 longlists announced
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2025 longlists in four categories were announced in the United Arab Emirates on Friday, December 6, 2024. The Sheikh Zayed Book Award is presented to Arab writers, intellectuals, and publishers as well as young talent whose writings and translations of humanities have scholarly and objectively enriched Arab cultural, literary, and…
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Azza Filali receives Prix Ivoire for African Literature 2024
Azza Filali received Prix Ivoire for African Literature 2024 at a ceremony in Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire on Saturday, November 23, 2024. Prix Ivoire for African Literature in Francophone Expression or simply Prix Ivoire is a literary award created by Akwaba Culture, an Ivorian law association in 2008. It rewards works published or translated into French…
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Amira Ghenim wins Prix de la Littérature Arabe 2024
Amira Ghenim’s novel Le désastre de la maison des notables won Prix de la Littérature Arabe 2024 on Monday, October 28, 2024. The Prix de la Littérature Arabe is awarded to a writer, a national of a member country of the Arab League, and an author of a published book – novel, collection of short…
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Azza Filali wins Prix Ivoire for African Literature 2024
Azza Filali’s novel Malentendues won the Prix Ivoire for African Literature in Francophone Expression 2024 on Thursday, October 17, 2024. Prix Ivoire for African Literature in Francophone Expression or simply Prix Ivoire is a literary award created by Akwaba Culture, an Ivorian law association in 2008. It rewards works published or translated into French relating…
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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…
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Prix Médicis 2024 first selection announced
Jennifer Richard, Abdellah Taïa, and Amira Ghenim are on the first selection for the Prix Médicis 2024 announced on Wednesday, September 18, 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…
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Prix Renaudot 2024 Premiere Selection announced
The first selection for Prix Renaudot 2024 was announced on Thursday, September 5, 2024. Here are the writers of African descent on the list. Prix Renaudot is a French literary prize awarded to the author of an outstanding original novel published during the previous year. It was created by ten art critics awaiting the results…
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Prix Ivoire for African Literature 2024 finalists announced
The finalists for Prix Ivoire for African Literature in Francophone Expression 2024 were announced on Friday, August 9, 2024. The Prix Ivoire for African Literature in Francophone Expression or simply Prix Ivoire is a literary award created by Akwaba Culture, an Ivorian law association in 2008. Based on their intrinsic quality, it rewards works published…
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Sheikh Zayed Book Awards 2024 winners announced.
Reem Bassiouney, Dr Houssem Eddine Chachia, and Dr Ahmed Somai won at the Sheikh Zayed Book Awards 2024 on Thursday, April 4, 2024. The Sheikh Zayed Book Award is presented to Arab writers, intellectuals, and publishers as well as young talent whose writings and translations of humanities have scholarly and objectively enriched Arab cultural, literary…
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Prix Orange du Livre en Afrique 2024 finalists announced
The finalists of Prix Orange du Livre en Afrique 2024 were announced on Thursday, March 14, 2024. Prix Orange du Livre en Afrique (Orange Book Prize in Africa) was set up to reward a fiction text written in French by an African writer from a publishing house based on the continent in 2018. It is…
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Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2024 shortlists announced.
The shortlists for the Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2024 were announced on Thursday, March 7, 2024. The Sheikh Zayed Book Award is presented to Arab writers, intellectuals, and publishers as well as young talent whose writings and translations of humanities have scholarly and objectively enriched Arab cultural, literary and social life. The categories handed out…