"Although winning the Interallié usually helps a novel's sales, the prix Interallié is purely honorific, and no prize money is awarded. Prix Interallié The prix Interallié (Interallié Prize), also known simply as l’Interallié, is an annual French literary award, awarded for a novel written by a journalist. The prize was started on 3 December 1930 by about thirty or so journalists who were having lunch at the ""cercle de l'Union interallié"" (Interallied Union Club), who were waiting for the winner of the prix Femina to be announced. The jury is composed of ten journalists, and the previous year's winner. The"
"truth in his posthumous book ""Vie et mort d'Émile Ajar"". In addition to the Prix Goncourt for a novel, the Academy Awards four other awards, for first novel, short story, biography and poetry. As of March 2009, the académie changed the award name by dropping ""bourses"" (""scholarship"") from the title. The prefix ""prix"" can be included or not, such as ""Prix Goncourt de la Poésie"" (Goncourt prize for Poetry) or ""Goncourt de la Poésie"" (Goncourt of Poetry). For example: ""Claude Vigée was awarded a Goncourt de la Poésie in 2008"". Or, ""Claude Vigée won the 2008 prix Goncourt de la"
"Prix Femina, the Prix Renaudot, the Prix Interallié and the Prix Médicis. Edmond de Goncourt, a successful author, critic, and publisher, bequeathed his estate for the foundation and maintenance of the académie Goncourt. In honour of his brother and collaborator, Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt (1830–1870), the académie has awarded the Prix Goncourt every December since 1903. The jury that determines the winner meets at the ""Drouant"" restaurant in November to make its decision. Notable winners of the prize include Marcel Proust (""In Search of Lost Time""), Simone de Beauvoir (""The Mandarins""), André Malraux (""Man's Fate"") and Marguerite Duras (""The"
"the prize should have gone to Roland Dorgelès for ""Les Croix de bois"", a novel about the First World War. The prize was supposed to be awarded to promising young authors, whereas Proust was not considered ""young"" at 48 – however Proust was a beginning author which is the only eligibility requirement, age being unimportant. In 1921, Rene Maran won the Goncourt with ""Batouala, veritable roman negre"", the first French novel to openly criticize European colonialism in Africa. The novel caused ""violent reactions"" and was banned in all the French colonies. In 1932, the prize was controversial for passing up"
"France. In 1996, the Spanish novelist and scriptwriter Jorge Semprún was elected as the first foreigner to become a member of the academy. In addition to the Prix Goncourt, which comes with a symbolic cheque of 10 euros, the Académie Goncourt awards honors for first novel and achievements in short story, poetry and biography genres. The ten members of the academy are usually called ""les Dix"" (the Ten). They meet the first Tuesday of each month, except in summer. Since 1914, they have convened in an oval room, the ""salon Goncourt"", on the second floor of the Restaurant Drouant, place"
"Lover""). The award was initially established to provide talented new authors with a monetary award that would allow them to write a second book. Today, the Goncourt has a token prize amount (around 10 euros), about the same amount given in 1903, and so the prestige of the prize has been explained not because of the cash-value of the prize, but ""in terms of the tremendous book sales it effects: the Goncourt winner becomes an instant millionaire."" In 1987, the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens was established, as a collaboration between the académie Goncourt, the French Ministry of Education, and Fnac,"
"Prix Alexis de Tocqueville The Prix Alexis de Tocqueville is an international Prize for political Literature. It is awarded every two years to a person who has demonstrated outstanding humanistic qualities and attachment to public liberties and seeks to perpetuate Alexis de Tocqueville’s ideals. It was created in 1979 by Pierre Godefroy, mayor of the nearby town of Valognes and Alain Peyrefitte, a noted author, member of the Académie Francaise and politician. The jury of this prestigious award is currently chaired by former French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, and includes Sandra day O’Connor, professor Harvey C Mansfield and a number"
"a book, music, and movie retailer. The Prix Renaudot is announced at the same ceremony as the Prix Goncourt. It has become known as something of a second-place prize. Within months of the first prize in 1903, it spawned a ""hostile counter-prize"" in the form of the Prix Femina to counter the all-male Jury of the Goncourt with an all-female jury on the Femina. Some decisions for awarding the prize have been controversial, a famous case being the decision to award the prize in 1919 to Marcel Proust; this was met with indignation, since many in the public felt that"
"Prix Goncourt des Lycéens. For this prize, 2000 French-speaking high school students vote on their favorite novel from the year's Prix Goncourt shortlist. In summer 2013, ""La Vérité…"" knocked Dan Brown’s ""Inferno"" from the top of bestseller lists all over Europe. Early readers of the English translation have described the book as ""literary and clever."" Considered Switzerland's answer to ""The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"", and compared to the fiction of Nabokov and Roth as well as the television series ""Twin Peaks"", ""The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair"" was published in the United States by Penguin on 27 May"
"which served as the basis for the 1981 movie; ""Le Félin Géant"" [""The Giant Cat""] (1918) (sometimes known as ""Quest of the Dawn Man"") and ""Helgvor du Fleuve Bleu"" [""Helgvor of the Blue River""] (1930). In it, he combined the notions of modern drama with the ability to depict Man’s early days. In 1897, Joseph Boex was named to the French Légion d'honneur and in 1903 was named to the first jury of the Prix Goncourt along with his brother. Rosny aîné remained involved with the Académie Goncourt and in 1926 became its president. Romain Rolland nominated him for the"
"(Martinique), Amin Maalouf (Lebanon), Mehdi Belhaj Kacem (Tunisia) and Assia Djebar (Algeria). France has a number of important literary awards Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française, Prix Décembre, Prix Femina, Prix Flore, Prix Goncourt, Prix Interallié, Prix Médicis, and Prix Renaudot. In 2011 a new, controversial, award was created called Prix des prix littéraires (""Prize of Literary Prizes"") which picks its winner from among the winners of these prizes. The term extrême contemporain is a French expression used to indicate French literary production published in France in the last 10 years. The ""extrême contemporain"" is, then, an ever-shifting concept."
"several different prizes in various fields (including literature, painting, poetry, theatre, cinema, history, and translation). Almost all of the prizes were created during the twentieth century, and only two prizes were awarded before 1780. In total, the Académie awards more than sixty prizes, most of them annually. The most important prize is the Grand prix de la francophonie, which was instituted in 1986, and is funded by the governments of France, Canada, Monaco, and Morocco. Other important prizes include the ""grand prix de littérature"" (for a literary work), the ""grand prix du roman"" (for a novel), the ""grand prix de"
"Under the Sea""), Émile Zola (""Les Rougon-Macquart""), Honoré de Balzac (""La Comédie humaine""), Guy de Maupassant, Théophile Gautier and Stendhal (""The Red and the Black"", ""The Charterhouse of Parma""), whose works are among the most well known in France and the world. The Prix Goncourt is a French literary prize first awarded in 1903. Important writers of the 20th century include Marcel Proust, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre. Antoine de Saint Exupéry wrote ""Little Prince"", which has remained popular for decades with children and adults around the world. , French authors had more Literature Nobel Prizes than those"
"financially to experience the instinctual expression of sexuality, which has been better preserved in poor countries whose people are focused on the struggle for survival. Although Houellebecq's work is often credited with building on conservative, if not reactionary, ideas, his critical depiction of the hippie movement, New Age ideology and the May 1968 generation, especially in ""Atomised"", echoes the thesis of Marxist sociologist Michel Clouscard. His novel ""The Map and the Territory"" (""La Carte et le Territoire"") was released in September 2010 by Flammarion and finally won its author the prestigious Prix Goncourt. This is the tale of an accidental"
"Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival) The Grand Prix is an award of the Cannes Film Festival bestowed by the jury of the festival on one of the competing feature films. It is the second-most prestigious prize of the festival after the Palme d'Or. Prior to its creation, the Special Jury Prize held the ""second place"". Since 1995, the official name of the award has been simply the ""Grand Prix"", but it has had two other names since its creation in 1967: ""Grand Prix Spécial du Jury"" (1967-1988), and ""Grand Prix du Jury"" (1989-1994). In addition, the award should not be"
"Gordon Sinclair Award The Gordon Sinclair Award is a Canadian journalism award, presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television for excellence in broadcast journalism. Originally presented as part of the ACTRA Awards, it was transferred to the new Gemini Awards in 1986. During the ACTRA era, the award was open to both radio and television journalists; when it was taken over by the Academy, it became a television-only award. In the late 1990s, the award transitioned from a competitive award with a shortlist of nominees, which was presented to honour journalism work within the past year, into a"
"society was to consist of ten members, of whom eight were nominated in the will. Each of the members was to receive an annuity of 6,000 francs, and a yearly prize of 5,000 francs was to be awarded to the author of some work of fiction. After some litigation, the academy was constituted in 1903. Since then, each December, a ten-member board of the Académie has awarded the ""Prix Goncourt"" for the best work of fiction of the year. Membership is reserved to writers who have produced works in the French language, but it is not limited to citizens of"
"France, and was bound by blood with a non-Jewish French family. Spanning three generations, the story describes the relationship the family developed with their new homeland. One of Ikor's sons had joined a Zen sect, against his father's wishes, and committed suicide. In response, Ikor founded, in 1981, the Centre contre les manipulations mentales (also known as the Centre Roger-Ikor), whose aim was to protect individuals from religious sects. Roger Ikor Roger Ikor (28 May 1912 – 17 November 1986) was a French writer, winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1955. He was born in Paris. Robert was of a"
"language literature is awarded only once to an author. Gary, who had already received the prize in 1956 for ""Les racines du ciel"", published ""La vie devant soi"" under the pseudonym Émile Ajar in 1975. The Académie Goncourt awarded the prize to the author of that book without knowing his identity. Gary's cousin's son Paul Pavlowitch posed as the author for a time. Gary later revealed the truth in his posthumous book ""Vie et mort d'Émile Ajar"". Gary also published as Shatan Bogat, Rene Deville and Fosco Sinibaldi, as well as his birth name Roman Kacew. In addition to his"
"of other eminent members. The last two American recipients of the Prize were General Colin Powell and Mr. Zbigniew Brzezinski. The Association organizing the Prize is now headed by the Countess Stéphanie de Tocqueville. The Prize is awarded at the Chateau de Tocqueville. Prix Alexis de Tocqueville The Prix Alexis de Tocqueville is an international Prize for political Literature. It is awarded every two years to a person who has demonstrated outstanding humanistic qualities and attachment to public liberties and seeks to perpetuate Alexis de Tocqueville’s ideals. It was created in 1979 by Pierre Godefroy, mayor of the nearby town"
"the Prix Goncourt for the novel ""La flamme au poing"", (literally, ""The Flame in the Fist"", published in English translation in 1918 as ""The Flame that is France""). In 1918 the reviewer in the magazine ""North American Review"" wrote: Malherbe took a particular interest in musical matters. His interview with Claude Debussy in 1911 is quoted extensively by the composer’s biographer Léon Vallas; his criticisms of the Conservatoire de Paris for what he saw as its reactionary agenda and declining standards were reported in Britain and the US, in ""The Times"" and by Richard Aldrich, music critic of ""The New"
"the Goncourt, so the award went to the jury's second choice, ""Le Sac du palais d'été"" by Pierre-Jean Rémy. Although there are no political themes in ""Les Bêtises"", the Goncourt jury's decision proved controversial within the leftist press due to Laurent's right-wing sympathies, and journalists complained that there were no working-class people in the novel. Les Bêtises (novel) Les Bêtises (""""The stupid things"""") is a 1971 novel by the French writer Jacques Laurent. It recounts 47 years in the life of an adventurous and well-travelled man, in the forms of his own notes, diary entries, an unfinished novel and comments,"
"the Prix Goncourt for his novel ""L'Appel du sol"" about a group of soldiers thrust into the war Bertrand himself had fought, during which they experience horrors none ever expected to just a few weeks before. These soldiers study the motives behind their march to war, representing all France in their make-up and ideals, but also unpicking the reasons behind the French will to fight and the destructive nature of blind patriotism. His second work was named ""L'Orage sur le jardin de Candide"", and was a collection of four short stories, collected and finished in the weeks before his death,"
"Lumières Award The Lumières Award (; sometimes called the Prix Lumière or Lumière Award) is a French film award presented by the ""Académie des Lumières"" to honor the best in the French-speaking cinema of the previous year. The awards ceremony is organized by the Académie des Lumières which consists of over 200 representatives of the international press based in Paris. Today it is regarded as one of the most prestigious French film industry awards, equivalent to the Golden Globe Award presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The Lumières Award was initiated in 1995 by French producer Daniel Toscan du"
"Meyer Blumenthal in awarding the Prix Blumenthal, a grant given between 1919 and 1954 to painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers, and musicians. Roland Dorgelès Roland Dorgelès (; 15 June 1885 – 18 March 1973) was a French novelist and a member of the Académie Goncourt. Born in Amiens, Somme, under the name Roland Lecavelé (he adopted the pen name Dorgelès to commemorate visits to the spa town of Argelès), he spent his childhood in Paris. A prolific author, he is most renowned for the Prix Femina-winning ""Wooden crosses"" (""Les croix de bois""), a moving study of World War I, in"
"our language to its supreme degree of precision and beauty"". Bonnefoy was honoured with a number of prizes throughout his creative life. Early on he was awarded the ""Prix des Critiques"" in 1971. Ten years later, in 1981, The French Academy gave him its grand prize, which was soon followed by the Goncourt Prize for Poetry in 1987. Over the next 15 years, Bonnefoy was awarded both the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca and the Balzan Prize (for Art History and Art Criticism in Europe) in 1995, the Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings in 1999, and the Grand Prize"
"elected to the ""Académie Goncourt"", which awards an annual prize for literature written in French. In 2002, he was awarded the inaugural Ovid Prize in recognition of his entire body of work, which focuses on ""tolerance and freedom of expression"". Jorge Semprún served as the honorary chairman of the Spanish branch of Action Against Hunger. He lived in Paris. Semprún married the actress in 1949. Their son, Jaime Semprún (1947–2010), was also a writer. Later Semprun married the French film editor Colette Leloup in 1958. They had five children: Dominique Semprún, Ricardo Semprún, Lourdes Semprún, Juan Semprún and Pablo Semprún."
"Prix Goncourt. After the breakdown of his marriage with Clara, Malraux lived with journalist and novelist Josette Clotis, starting in 1933. Malraux and Josette had two sons: Pierre-Gauthier (1940–1961) and Vincent (1943–1961). During 1944, while Malraux was fighting in Alsace, Josette died, aged 34, when she slipped while boarding a train. His two sons died together in 1961 in an automobile accident. On 22 February 1934, Malraux together with Édouard Corniglion-Molinier embarked on a much publicized expedition to find the lost capital of the Queen of Sheba mentioned in the Old Testament. Saudi Arabia and Yemen were both remote, dangerous"
"confused with the ""Grand Prix du Festival International du Film"", which is the previous name of the Palme d'Or, the highest prize of the Cannes Film Festival. Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival) The Grand Prix is an award of the Cannes Film Festival bestowed by the jury of the festival on one of the competing feature films. It is the second-most prestigious prize of the festival after the Palme d'Or. Prior to its creation, the Special Jury Prize held the ""second place"". Since 1995, the official name of the award has been simply the ""Grand Prix"", but it has had"
"lifetime achievement award whose winner was announced in advance of the annual award ceremony. Since 2013, it has been presented as part of the Canadian Screen Awards. The award is named in honour of television and radio commentator Gordon Sinclair. Gordon Sinclair Award The Gordon Sinclair Award is a Canadian journalism award, presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television for excellence in broadcast journalism. Originally presented as part of the ACTRA Awards, it was transferred to the new Gemini Awards in 1986. During the ACTRA era, the award was open to both radio and television journalists; when it"
"Gold Prix de la TNT The Gold Prix de la TNT (: Gold TNT Award), nicknamed as Les Gold, is a French accolade bestowed in a ceremony by various telecom organizations partenant with Télé Star in recognition of excellence in programs and professionals of French and Francophone television. They are models as the Emmy Award equivalent. The ceremony was preconceived to be the successor of the ""7 d'Or"" (now discontinued) and become one of greatest in French television. The César Award for cinema, the ""Victoires de la Musique"" for music and the Molière Award for theater, can be considered as"
"was awarded to his sister Genevieve for her best-selling novel ""Claude"". When she received the reward, Fauconnier and Genevieve Fauconnier became the only brother and sister in France to have ever received the Prix Goncourt and Prix Femina awards. Fauconnier had hated the Treaty of Versailles: he knew that Europe took the huge risk of repeating the vile war of 1914-18. He did not suffer unduly during the Depression of the 1930s because of his resources in Malaysia, but he was troubled deeply by the rise of Nazism, fascism in Italy, the conquest of Abyssinia, and the Spanish Civil War."
"where he taught at the Universidad de Buenos Aires; after March 1953, he lived in Spain, employed as a researcher in the Italic Studies field. He won the Prix Goncourt for his novel ""Dieu est né en exil"" (""God was born in exile"") in 1960; however, following the allegations that he had been a member of the Iron Guard, Vintila Horia refused to receive the Prize, but the Goncourt remains attributed to him. According to some, the allegations constituted slander aimed at Horia by the communist regime, with the purpose of blackmailing him into issuing positive remarks about the regime."