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Les Heures souterraines

by Delphine de Vigan

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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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.

 
UK French Translation prize
announced!


Two extracts from contemporary French novels will be translated by unpublished translators residents of the UK, and the entrant whose work is most faithful to the original in letter and spirit will win weekend in Paris ! Submit your entries by April 1st 2010.

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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.


  
 
José Pliya
José Pliya



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.
 
 
Grants deadlines

• Burgess Grant  More...
The deadline for submitting an application is December 15, 2010.


• The French-American Foundation Translation Prize More...
The deadline for submitting an application is December 31, 2009.

• Hemingway Grant 
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The deadline for submitting an application is February 15, 2010.

• French Voices & Grants to Publishers for the Acquisition of Rights 
More...The deadline for submitting an application is February 16, 2010.

• Translation Grant for Canadian Publishers More...
The deadline for submitting an application is October 15, 2010.

  

 
 
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