Luc Lang (born 1956 in Suresnes) is a French writer, born in a working-class family.
Luc Lang (born 1956 in Suresnes) is a French writer, born in a working-class family.
Lang attended literary preparatory classes: Upper Letters (Hypokhâgne) at the lycée Honoré-de-Balzac, then in Upper First (khâgne) at the lycée Jules Ferry and he showed a passion for work, theory, considered from a lyrical point of view.
He teaches esthetics at the École nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris-Cergy.
In 1995 he was a resident of the Villa Kujoyama.
He was awarded the Prix Jean-Freustié in 1988 and the Prix Charles Oulmont in 1989 for Voyage sur la ligne d'horizon, as well as the Prix Goncourt des lycéens in 1998 for Mille six cents ventres.
The Prix Goncourt is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year". The prize carries a symbolic reward of only 10 euros, but results in considerable recognition and book sales for the winning author. Four other prizes are also awarded: prix Goncourt du Premier Roman, prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle, prix Goncourt de la Poésie (poetry) and prix Goncourt de la Biographie (biography). Of the "big six" French literary awards, the Prix Goncourt is the best known and most prestigious. The other major literary prizes include the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française, the Prix Femina, the Prix Renaudot, the Prix Interallié and the Prix Médicis.
The Prix Théophraste-Renaudot or Prix Renaudot is a French literary award.
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Fouad Laroui is a Moroccan economist and writer, born in Oujda, Morocco. After his studies at the Lycée Lyautey (Casablanca), he joined the prestigious École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, where he studied engineering. After working shortly for the Office Cherifien des Phosphates company in Khouribga (Morocco), he moved to the United Kingdom where he spent several years in Cambridge and York. Later he obtained a PhD in economics and moved to Amsterdam where he started his career as a writer. He has published about twenty books between novels, collections of short stories and essays and two collections of poetry in Dutch. He has won several literary prizes, amongst which the Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle, the Prix Jean-Giono and the Grande Médaille de la littérature de l'Académie française.
Jean-Marie Laclavetine is a French editor, writer and translator of Italian literature into French.
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Jean-Pierre Milovanoff is a French writer, laureate of several literary prizes
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Hédi Kaddour is a French poet and novelist.
Grégoire Polet is a Belgian writer and poet.
Franck Maubert is a French novelist and essayist. Maubert is the author of three novels and several works devoted to painting and song. He was a juror in the 2015 prix Françoise Sagan.
Philippe Vilain is a French man of letters, writer, essayist, doctor of modern literature of the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle.
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The Grand prix du roman métis is a French literary award established in 2010 by the city of Saint-Denis-de-La Réunion. It rewards a French-language novel published less than a year ago and which emphasizes the values of multiracialism, multiculturalism and humanism. The institution also awards each year the Prix du roman métis des lycéens and the Prix du roman métis des lecteurs de la ville de Saint-Denis. Each prize is worth 5000 euros.
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