November 2011 Blog Archive
Book of the week: LA ROSA ESCONDIDA by Reyes Monforte
Posted by Amélie, on 28 November 2011. Comments: 0
With this novel based on true facts, writer and journalist Reyes Montero tells us the story of Zehera, an immigrant fleeing war torn Bosnia, and the challenges she faces to build a new life in Spain. She will draw the strength to pull through from family, love and friendship, in a novel on human resilience to trials and tragedies.
Ticket offer for Les Enfants du Paradis at the BFI
Posted by Amélie, on 22 November 2011. Comments: 0
To celebrate the BFI's re-release of Marcel Carné's magical Les Enfants du Paradis, we have teamed with them to offer one lucky person a pair of tickets to a screening of their choice of this French masterpiece!
The winner will be the first person to answer to this simple question:
What is the name of the mime played by Jean-Louis Barrault in Les Enfants du Paradis:
a) Baptiste Debureau
b) Frédérick Lemaître
c) Pierre-François Lacenaire
Send us an email with your answer and your full name and you will be notified shortly of the results of the competition. Good luck!
Book of the week: MARILYN, DERNIERES SEANCES by Michel Schneider
Posted by Amélie, on 21 November 2011. Comments: 0
Get in the mood for the upcoming release of "My week with Marilyn", with Michel Schneider's "real novel" about Marilyn Monroe's last years, told un-chronologically through the perspective of Dr Ralph Greenson, the psychoanalyst of her final years, the man she trusted with the tragedy that was her life...
Tissues sold separately.
French literary prizes 2011
Posted by Amélie, on 7 November 2011. Comments: 0
'Tis the season of the literary prizes in France, awarded to the crème de la crème littéraire of this "rentrée 2011". Here is a non-exhaustive list of the award winners so far...
Prix Goncourt
Alexis Jenni, L'art français de la guerre
Prix Goncourt des Lycéens
Carole Martinez, Du domaine des murmures
Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle
Bernard Comment, Tout passe
Prix Renaudot
Emmanuel Carrère, Limonov
Prix Renaudot Essai
Gérard Guégan, Fontenoy ne reviendra plus
Grand Prix de l'Académie française
Sorj Chalandon, Retour à Killybegs
Prix Femina
Simon Libérati, Jayne Mansfield, 1967
Prix Femina Essai
Laure Murat, L'homme qui se prenait pour Napoléon
Prix Médicis
Mathieu Lindon, Ce qu'aimer veut dire
Prix Décembre
Jean-Christophe Bailly, Le dépaysement : voyages en France
Olivier Frébourg, Gaston et Gustave
Prix Interallié
Morgan Sportès, Tout, tout de suite
