The category of “French literature” includes literary awards and prizes news on drama, poetry and fiction produced in the French language.
To see all the latest literary awards news, see the front page of The Burnt Ones: Literary Awards News.
2006 Governor General’s Literary Awards announced
Date: November 23, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments
This year’s winners of the Governor General’s Literary Awards have been announced. The annual prize, awarded in altogether seven categories in both French and English, is one of Canada’s most prestigious literary prizes.
This year, the fiction awards go to Peter Behrens and Andrée Laberge (fiction), John Pass and Hélène Dorion (poetry), and Daniel MacIvor and Évelyne de la Chenelière (drama). For more information about the individual works, see below.
The Law of Dreams
by Peter Behrens
The Law of Dreams tells the story of a young man’s epic passage from innocence to experience during The Great Famine in Ireland of 1847. On his odyssey through Ireland and Britain, and across the Atlantic to “the Boston states,†Fergus is initiated to violence, sexual heat, and the glories and dangers of the industrial revolution. Along the way, he meets an unforgettable generation of boy soldiers, brigands, street toughs and charming, willful girls – all struggling for survival in the aftermath of natural catastrophe magnified by political callousness and brutal neglect. …
You can read more about The Law of Dreams at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
La rivière du loup
by Andrée Laberge
Unfortunately, no description is available for this work.
Stumbling in the Bloom
by John Pass
Unfortunately, no description is available for this work.
You can read more about Stumbling in the Bloom at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
Ravir : les lieux
by Hélène Dorion
Unfortunately, no description is available for this work.
You can read more about Ravir : les lieux at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
I Still Love You
by Daniel MacIvor
Five plays by Daniel MacIvor in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of da da kamera.
You can read more about I Still Love You at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
Désordre public
by Évelyne de la Chenelière
Unfortunately, no description is available for this work.
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2006 Prix Renaudot winner announced
Date: November 6, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments
The winner of the 2006 Prix Renaudot, one of France’s top literary prizes, has been announced. The prize was given to Alain Mabanckou for his novel Memoires de porc-epic (”Memoires of a Porcupine”).
Mémoires de porc-épic
by Alain Mabanckou
The novel is currently not available in English, but the French version can be ordered from Amazon.fr.
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2006 Goncourt literary prize winner announced
Date: November 6, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments
The 39-year-old American author Jonathan Littell has won the 2006 Goncourt literary prize, one of France’s most important annual literary awards, with his work Les Bienveillantes (The Kindly Ones).
Les Bienveillantes
by Jonathan Littell
A 900-page first-person fictional account of an unrepentant SS officer as he recalls the extermination of the Jews in World War II. The novel will be available in English in 2008.
You can read more about Les Bienveillantes at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
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2006 Prix Femina winners announced
Date: October 31, 2006 | Discussion: 4 Comments
The winners of the 2006 Prix Femina prize have been announced. The literary prize, created in 1904, is awarded annually by an all-female panel to the best novel published in French. The award also recognizes non-French work in a separate category.
Lignes de faille
by Nancy Huston
In the main category, The Prix Femina was given to the Canadian-born writer Nancy Huston for her novel Lignes de Faille (Faultlines). The novel, about four six-year-olds who each are the parent of the next one, is not yet published in English. Nancy Huston has lived in Paris since the early 1970s.
The Story of Chicago May
by Nuala O’Faolain
The Prix Femina Etranger, awarded for the best non-French writing of the year, was meanwhile given to Nuala O’Faolain for her novel The Story of Chicago May. The novel is about the notorious Irish thief and prostitute Chicago May.
You can read more about The Story of Chicago May at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
