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Delphine
de Vigan is a Parisian author. She began her career in a marketing
department, and spent her evenings writing, which was her real passion.
She could only dream that this craft would become her full-time
profession. Les Heures
souterraines is her fifth book. Her previous
novel, No et moi,
was a bestseller in France and has been translated
into various languages. |
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 More about Les Heures souterraines
More about No and Me
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It's
the French academy's prize time!
The winner of Le Prix Goncourt, the most prestigious award of the
French literary establishment, was announced on Monday 2nd November as
Marie Ndiaye's Trois Femmes Puissantes.
Ndiaye is the first woman to win the prize since 1998.
The Prix Renaudot has been awarded to Un Roman Francais
by
Frédéric Beigbeder. The Goncourt panel announced
their
decision at the restaurant Drouant in Paris, on Monday lunchtime, with
five votes to Ndiaye's favour, against two for Jean-Philippe
Toussaint's La vérité sur Marie,
and one for Delphine de Vigan's Les heures souterraines.
The Prix Médecis was awarded on Wednesday November 4th to
Dany Laferrière, the Haïtian author now resident of
Québec, for his novel, L'énigme du
retour.
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UK
French Translation prize
announced!
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The celebrated Parisian bookseller, Gibert Jeune,
has launched its first digital bookstore online. A wide selection of
e-books will be available to buy as downloads. Gibert Jeune is the
second store in France (after Dialogues in Brest) to offer digital
downloads on a large scale.
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Francophone
playwright José Pliya has a dense scenic
and dramatic background. His plays, bearing an “exogenous
glance” on social and cultural realities, in the Caribbean in
particular, are performed worldwide. His writing reflects his personal
experience of migration and miscegenation. |
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