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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Fifteen Italian authors.

An exhibition of fifteen photographs of Italians authors is now online at the New Italian Books website.

New Italian Books is the site that promotes Italian publishing, language and culture in the world. I'ts in Italian, French and English.

Thanks to the Italian Cultural Institute “Carlo Maurilio Lerici” in Stockholm for giving me the opportunity to meet and photograph so many Italian writers.

All the portraits are available at the Agence Opale.

Five of these authors are among the 78 authors whose portraits appear in my latest book, Portraits d’auteurs / Author Portraits, published by Carlsson in Stockholm in 2020.

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Vassili Golovanov.

A portrait of the Russian writer Vassili Golovanov published in the French daily newspaper Libération (May 4, 2021) to illustrate an article of Catherine Perrel (translator) a few weeks after his dead. The photograph was taken during the annual MEET literary festival in Saint-Nazaire in 2008.

All the portraits of Vassili Golovanov are available at the Opale Agency.

You can also see more publication at laurentdenimal.se/publication

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