French literary prizes 2021.

The time-honored season of French literary prizes has begin !

The following writers are nominated for the different prizes : Charif Majdalani, Christine Montalbetti, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Najwa Barakat, Nathacha Appanah, Nina Bouraoui and Sorj Chalandon.

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Charif Majdalani*

Dernière oasis (Actes Sud) for the Prix Femina (Roman français) and the Prix de la littérature arabe

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Christine Montalbetti*

Ce que c'est qu'une existence (POL) for the Prix Médicis (Roman français)

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Jonas Hassen Khemiri

La Clause paternelle (Actes Sud, Suède, trad. Marianne Ségol-Samoy) for the Prix Médicis (Roman étranger)

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Najwa Barakat

Monsieur N. (Actes Sud, Liban, trad. Philippe Vigreux) for the Prix Femina (Roman étranger)

and the Prix de la littérature arabe

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Nathacha Appanah*

Rien ne t'appartient (Gallimard) for the Prix Femina (Roman français)

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Nina Bouraoui*

Satisfaction (JC Lattès) for the Prix Femina (Roman français) and the Prix Médicis (Roman français)

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Sorj Chalandon*

Enfant de salaud (Grasset) for the Prix Landerneau des Lecteurs and the Prix Goncourt

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More portraits for each author are available at the Agence Opale (Paris).

See also the Complete collection of portraits.

The writers name with an * are represented in the book "Portraits d'Auteurs / Author Portraits", Carlssons 2021.

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Beyrouth 2020, Journal d'un effondrement.

The lebanese writer Charif Majdalani won the special Jury Prize for the Prix Femina Essai (2020) for his book "Beyrouth 2020, Journal d'un effondrement" (Actes Sud / L'orient des Livres, 2020).

Charif Majdalani’s literary agency 2 Seas Agency wrote on the book :

"At the beginning of summer 2020 in Lebanon – a country ruined by an economic crisis and inflation where people in Beirut stand up for a true democracy while the world is petrified by the coronavirus crisis –, Charif Majdalani undertakes the writing of a journal.

He wishes to give an account of this terrible and confusing period and confront it with his experience, thoughts, and emotions – and perhaps endure it through writing. This chronicle of suffocation and collapse is struck on August 4th by the explosion in the city’s port of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate. From this moment on, the book becomes a testimony of the catastrophe and the uprising, the portrait of a city stunned by the violence of its own history, the account of “fates thrown to the winds”.

The portrait of the author was taken in Beyrouth in 2010.

Charif Majdalani is represented in the book « Portraits d’Auteurs / Author Portraits » (Carlsson 2020) which present a collection of 78 black and white portraits of international writers.

More portraits of Charif Majdalani are available at the Opale Agency.

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