FRANCES’S MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ leads something of a double career. A novelist of Prix Goncourt–winning distinction, Houellebecq is also his country’s best-selling author abroad and, on many accounts, currently its best. He is also reliably a prophet of current events: his third novel, Platform,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-11-12 13:30:31 UTC ]
In France, Leila Slimani is quite something. With Lullaby, only her second novel, the 36-year-old former journalist won the Prix Goncourt, the country's top literary award. It has already sold more than 600,000 since it was published there in September 2016. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2018-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
With France as Guest of Honor at the Fair, the shortlist of the Prix Goncourt is announced at the Frankfurt Book Fair for the first time. The post 2017 Prix Goncourt Shortlist Announced in Frankfurt appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber has signed an "electrifying" literary novel by Leila Slimani, which was awarded French literary prize, the Prix Goncourt. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
A memoir by an Italian doctor working with migrants draws interest, as does a celebrated French novel currently up for the Prix Goncourt. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
After winning France’s most prestigious literary award, the Prix Goncourt, early in November, "Compass" by Mathias Enard moved up to the third spot in the country’s fiction bestseller list at the end of the month. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
French writer Mathias Enard has won France's top literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, for his book Boussole ("Compass") which is published by Fitzcarraldo Editions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Goncourt Academy announced the longlist for the Prix Goncourt, considered to the be the most prestigious literary prize in France. The winner be announced on November 4. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]