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French Night Series at Cornelia Stree Cafe
27 January 2010
Please join us for the 2010 edition of the French Night, an hour of French literature, read in translation and in the original.
For the first night back the program will be:
The Double Life of Anna Song by Minh Tran Huy
The Prisoner by Anne Plantagenet
Dear Madame T. by Bernard Giraudeau
Thursday, 25 February from 6-7 pm
Cornelia St. Café (29 Cornelia St. between Bleecker and West 4th)
$7 cover includes one drink
Lucinda Karter, host
For program details and directions, visit www.corneliastreetcafe.com
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French Voices 2009
07 January 2010
We are delighted to announce that the following books have been chosen by the 2009 French Voices committee to receive a $6,000 translation grant, to be paid to the American publisher for its translation and publication.
Two have already found a US publisher : the anthology A Life on Paper by Georges-Olivier Châteaureynand will be published by Small Beer Press and The invention of Heterosexual Culture by Louis-Georges Tin by MIT press.
But the 2008 Prix Medicis winner, Là où les tigres sont chez eux (Where Tigers Feel at Home) by Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès and On n’y voit rien! (I Can’t See a Thing!), a collection of knowledgeable and thought-provoking essays on art history by Daniel Arasse are still on submission.
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Serge Gainsbourg
13 January 2008
World English rights to Serge Gainsbourg by Gilles Verlant were purchased by Tam Tam Books. This will be the first biography of the singer, songwriter, novelist, and major pop cultural figure to be released in English, and part of the publisher’s plans to make this 20th century icon known to the Anglophone world. Published in France by Éditions Albin Michel.
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Irène Némirovsky
12 January 2008
We are pleased to announce the purchase of World English rights to four early 20th century classics by Irène Némirovsky by Vintage Books in the U.S. and Chatto & Windus in the U.K. David Golder, Le bal, Les mouches d'automne and L'affaire Courilof were originally published in Paris by Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle.
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Lucien X. Polastron
Livres en Feu
Books on Fire
11 January 2008
World English rights to Livres en feu by Lucien X. Polastron were purchased by Inner Traditions International. Livres en feu won the 2004 "Grand Prix de l'Essai et d'Histoire" given by the SGDL (Société des Gens De Lettres). Published in France by Éditions Denoël.
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Éditions du Rouergue
De la Taille à la Conduite des Arbres Fruitiers
On the Pruning and Guiding of Fruit Trees
10 January 2008
World English rights to De la Taille à la Conduite des Arbres Fruitiers were sold to W.W. Norton & Company. A unique and comprehensive guide for both the amateur and the professional orchardist, this photo-filled reference book proposes a new vision and approach to the growing of fruit trees. Published in France by Éditions du Rouergue.
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Michel Onfray
Traité d'athéologie : Physique de la métaphysique
On Atheism: A Treatise on the Physical in Metaphysics
09 January 2008
Traité d'athéologie : Physique de la métaphysique, by the exciting and controversial philosopher and essayist Michel Onfray, a top nonfiction bestseller for over 37 weeks, was bought by Arcade Publishing in the U.S., Penguin Canada in Canada, Serpent's Tail in the U.K. and University of Melbourne Press in Australia. Published in France by Editions Grasset.
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Alexandre Dumas
08 January 2008
World English rights to Le Chevalier de Sainte-Hermine, the final novel by Alexandre Dumas, a fiction bestseller for over 14 weeks, were purchased by Pegasus Books. Published in France by Éditions Phébus.
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Jean-Robert Pitte
Bordeaux Bourgogne : Passions Rivales
Bordeaux, Burgundy: Rival Passions
07 January 2008
World English rights to Bordeaux Bourgogne: Les Passions Rivales by Jean-Robert Pitte, president of the Sorbonne, were purchased by The University of California Press. This geographical and historical study of the two world-renowned wine regions follows Pitte’s French Gastronomy in the U.S. Published in France by Hachette Littératures.
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Hwang Sok-yong
Le Vieux Jardin
The Garden of Yesterday
06 January 2008
World English rights to Le Vieux Jardin, by pre-eminent Korean novelist Hwang Sok-yong, were purchased by Seven Stories Press, who have recently released The Guest, his first novel to be translated into English. The author, who will appear in New York at the April 2006 PEN World Voices Festival. is published in France by Éditions Zulma.
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