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Dany Laferriere in Haiti
28 January 2010
Haitian-born Canadian novelist and journalist Dany Laferrière was in Haiti for a festival when the earthquake struck. Laferrière won a major French literary award, le Prix Médicis, in 2009 for his 11th novel, L'énigme du retour (The Enigma of Return).
Christine Rousseau of the French newspaper Le Monde interviewed him on January 15 after he returned to his home in Montréal. In the interview, Laferrière makes some important points on how foreigners and foreign media perceive events in Haiti.
The original interview in French is on the web site of Le Monde:
http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/2010/01/16/haiti-le-temoignage-bouleversant-de-l-ecrivain-dany-laferriere_1292475_3222.html
You can also read the English version on the web site of The Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/crossover-dreams/haitian-writer-dany-lafer_b_426365.html
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New Release:
30 August 2009
Brodeck by Philippe Claudel reviewed and excerpted in The New York Times:
“I write novels like a filmmaker, but I write films like a novelist,” Philippe Claudel said when “I’ve Loved You So Long,” his first work as director, appeared last year. The comment couldn’t have meant much to American audiences. To us, that powerful and eloquent movie, with Kristin Scott Thomas as a doctor just released from prison, seemed to come out of nowhere. Although Claudel had long been respected as a novelist in France, only two of his previous books, “By a Slow River” and “Grey Souls,” had been translated into English. Now his latest novel, “Brodeck,” arrives like a fresh, why-haven’t-we-known-him discovery, revealing him to be as dazzling on the page as he is on the screen.
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The Elegance of Muriel Barbery
22 May 2009
Please check Muriel Barbery's profile in Publishers Weekly :
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6660127.html
Muriel Barbery is lovely, not unlike the exquisite prose of her runaway hit novel, The Elegance of the Hedgehog. Why a hedgehog? She shakes her head.
“The whole time [the novel] was just called 'Renee' [the name of the narrator, the concierge in a ritzy Parisian apartment building], but we wanted something joyful, mysterious. My husband, Stephane, suggested the title.” (In hindsight, Renee does have hedgehog qualities) Muriel's husband, whom she met when she was 23, has been an enormous influence on her writing. He encouraged her to publish—she credits him with being an excellent first reader; she calls the milieu of the hedgehog “his universe.” And he made her fall in love with Japan, where they now live—in the city of Kyoto, which she says is like “living in a dream.”
Before Hedgehog, published in the U.S. in 2008 [..] -it has 170,000 copies in print in the U.S., where it sits on the New York Times bestseller list- there was Une Gourmandise, Barbery's first novel, published in France in 2000. Europa Editions, which bought Hedgehog before any of the hoopla, is publishing this first novel in September, with the English title Gourmet Rhapsody.
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Muriel Barbery on Tour April 2009
05 April 2009
Author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog(Europa Editions,September 2008) was in Los Angeles and New York IN April to meet her American readers.
The Hedgehog was named April book of the month by NPR's The Diane Rehm show. Together with Sarah Pickup-Diligenti, Michael Dirda, and Leslie Maitland, Diane discussed the book on her Reader's Review morning program. The book has spent 18 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.
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French Voices / Call for submission
02 March 2009
French Voices, a translation grant program administered by the French Embassy and the PEN American Center, is now accepting applications for 2009. You may download the application form from the Website: http://www.frenchbooknews.com/grantsamericanpublishers.php.
Please note that the deadline for receipt of your application is Tuesday, March 31, 2009.
For more information, on French Voices or other available translation programs, please visit: www.frenchbooknews.com.
Six of the titles, which were awarded a French Voices grant in 2006-2008, are looking for an American publisher:
-Frédéric Pajak, Le chagrin d’amour, PUF, 2000
-Marie Darrieussecq, Le bébé, P.O.L., 2002
-Yasmina Khadra, Cousine K, Julliard, 2003
-René Belletto, Coda, P.O.L., 2005
-Luc Lang, Cruels 13, Stock, 2007
-Jean Rolin, L'Explosion de la durite, P.O.L., 2007
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Never-before seen photographs of the moon
Lune
Moon
29 December 2008
After Space: Exploring the Moon, the Planets, and Beyond (Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2006) and Visions of Mars (HNA Books, 2005), which sold more than 50,000 copies in the United States, de Goursac is releasing for the first time restored photos of the Apollo missions in MOON. With these never-before-seen original NASA photographs and stunning panoramic pictures, he once again invites his readers to travel alongside the astronauts on the Moon and discover its mysterious landscapes.
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