I know, I know. Leaves are turning. Charli’s called it. It’s been fun, but it would seem we’re just about done with this nebulous wink of an aesthetic category. But before we shift wholeheartedly into Demure Autumn, I’d like to present one last candidate for admission to the brat pantheon. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-09-06 15:00:08 UTC ]
Empire of the Ants, a real-time strategy game with dazzlingly photorealistic insects and other critters, arrives on November 7. Although the game doesn’t sound like it’s exactly a remake, it comes from the same publisher (and draws from the same source material) as the 2000 RTS game of the same... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2024-06-10 08:00:22 UTC ]
The Four Corners of the Heart was discovered by her son after the death of the French author, best known for Bonjour Tristesse, written when she was just 18A novel by the French author Françoise Sagan has been published posthumously – but, despite the suggestion that a novelist such as Leïla... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-06-22 12:23:44 UTC ]
In 'Look at the Lights, My Love,' an extended essay about a Parisian superstore, Annie Ernaux proves she can master any subject by melding experience and recollection. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-05-19 13:00:25 UTC ]
We look back on our 1996 interview with French author Annie Ernaux, who was named the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-10-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
This morning, the Swedish Academy awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature to the French author Annie Ernaux “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory.” Annie Ernaux is the author of some twenty works of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-10-06 11:09:56 UTC ]
Annie Ernaux, 82, was cited for “the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory." Continue reading >> [ Source: The Huffington Post | 2022-10-06 11:03:31 UTC ]
In his latest book, the French author celebrated for his deeply personal accounts of tragic events embraces meditation as a means of learning to write “without fabrication.” But telling the truth is complicated. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-07-31 09:00:08 UTC ]
Carlo Collodi’s version of Donkey Skin, by French author Charles Perrault, will appear in a new collection of Italian fairytalesCarlo Collodi is remembered today for Pinocchio, his 1881 children’s story about a puppet who turns into a real boy, immortalised on screen by Disney. Now another... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-10-01 13:46:15 UTC ]
The French author (and geopolitics professor) delivers another captivating mystery novel Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-09-10 13:00:00 UTC ]
Gallic Books has acquired A Single Rose plus a gift book by Muriel Barbery, author of the The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Gallic, 2009). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-04 08:21:12 UTC ]
The late French author Romain Gary is the only writer to have won France’s most prestigious literary award under two names: he received the Prix Goncourt for The Roots of Heaven (Les Racines du ciel; 1956) under his birth name and, more than 20 years later, “Émile Ajar” won the prize for The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-10-29 17:36:47 UTC ]
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, French author and laureate of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature, is commonly known as J.M.G. Le Clézio, an abbreviation he rather fancies. His numerous works complement his life’s many journeys, reflecting the injustice and beauty of near and far-away lands. He has... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-04-13 08:48:38 UTC ]
A French author wrote for years about his sexual relations with children and continued to win acclaim. Now one of them has spoken out. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-01-07 11:39:15 UTC ]
For almost a decade now, Italian author and academic Giovanni Catelli has been researching and writing about the untimely death of Albert Camus, the French author who died in 1960, at age 46, when a car driven by his publisher swerved off-road and crashed into a tree. Camus’ death was certainly... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-12-05 17:20:17 UTC ]
Gallic Books has announced two new projects, with a graphic novel adaptation of Proust and a new book from French author Serge Joncour. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-08-08 17:51:03 UTC ]
Paul Grimstad on the French author George Perec, whose formally and thematically inventive works included “Life: A User’s Manual,” “Things: A Story of the Sixties,” and “A Void.” Continue reading >> [ Source: New Yorker | 2019-07-16 13:00:00 UTC ]
French author and journalist Agnès Poirier will write a book about the Notre-Dame fire for Oneworld. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-09 16:54:54 UTC ]
Billionaire sued over play about two wealthy Britons who live in a castle in the Channel IslandsThe reclusive billionaire owner of the Daily Telegraph and the Ritz hotel has been ordered to pay damages to an obscure French playwright who wrote a play that satirised the lives of him and his twin... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-07-03 13:42:44 UTC ]
A group of roughly 20 protesters from the environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion were arrested Thursday after they jumped from a raft off the shore of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity and tried to swim to the beach. This comes one day after 14 of their members... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2019-06-20 13:15:19 UTC ]