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La Francophonie Themed Around Olympics Launches in South China

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Jean-Baptiste Andrea Wins Goncourt Prize For "Veiller Sur Elle"

The prestigious French literary award went to “Watching Over Her,” or “Veiller Sur Elle,” an almost 600-page novel set in 20th-century Italy.

John Abbott College joins prestigious Prix Goncourt des lycéens

John Abbott College has joined the prestigious Prix Goncourt des lycéens, a unique initiative where high school students across France read and analyze a selection of novels from the Goncourt

A book prize awarded by those behind bars

On a recent afternoon near Orléans, in the Loire Valley, members of the jury of France’s newest literary prize trickled out of their prison cells...

From Behind Bars, Inmates Award France's Latest Book Prize

For the first time, detainees picked their own winner in an offshoot of the Goncourt, France’s top literary honor.

Hervé Le Tellier wins prestigious Goncourt literature prize

A genre-blurring, polyphonic thriller about the double lives of passengers aboard a flight from Paris to New York, has won this year’s Goncourt prize. French author Hervé Le Tellier was awarded France’s…

Brigitte Giraud becomes 13th woman to win Prix Goncourt

Vivre Vite, an autobiographical novel about the death of her husband, wins France’s most prestigious literary award

Brigitte Giraud Wins Goncourt Prize With Tragic Novel of Loss

The prestigious French literary award went to “Living Fast,” or “Vivre Vite,” which explores the causes of an accident that killed the author’s partner.

Story of personal tragedy wins France's prestigious Goncourt literature prize

French author Brigitte Giraud has won France’s top literature prize, the Prix Goncourt, for a novel based on events that led to the death of her husband in a motorbike accident in 1999.

Story of personal tragedy wins France's prestigious Goncourt literature prize