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Programme de rencontres avec @camille_de_toledo , Programme de rencontres avec @camille_de_toledo , à l'occasion des sorties de L'INTERNATIONALE DES RIVIERES (@editionsverdier , 5 février) et SI STEFAN ZWEIG POUVAIT PARLER (@manuella_editions 20 février).
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Out on Jan 26th at @bailedelsol : MANO EL HIJO DE Out on Jan 26th at @bailedelsol : MANO EL HIJO DE ORO, the Spanish translation (by Pilar Altinier) of MANO DE L'AUTRE BORD, by Antoinette Tidjani Alou (ProjectÎles).
Caroline Lamarche et Ananda Devi parmi les recomma Caroline Lamarche et Ananda Devi parmi les recommandations de lecture du Nouvel Obs.
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Out on Feb 3rd at La Nave di Teseo : NATURA, CULTU Out on Feb 3rd at La Nave di Teseo : NATURA, CULTURA E DISUGUAGLIANZE, the Italian translation (by Sergio Arecco) of NATURE, CULTURE ET INEGALITES, by Thomas Piketty (Société d'ethnologie, 2023).
#thomaspiketty
Just out on Feb. 29th at Daunt Books, the UK editi Just out on Feb. 29th at Daunt Books, the UK edition of THE OLD FIRE (translated from French to English by Aneesa Higgins) of LE VIEIL INCENDIE, by @elisashuadusapin (@editionszoe , 2024, Prix Décembre 2024).

Press Reviews
‘Quietly powerful.’ Financial Times 
‘Holds us in its spell . . . A moving tale of family strife.’ Daily Mail
‘Haunted by childhood memories, and charged with undercurrents of both resentment and affection.’ TLS
‘Quietly affecting… a beautiful rendering of unresolved adolescence.’ Publishers Weekly
'Reading this atmospheric novel I was at times disorientated as if I were looking at the pages through dirty glasses. But after finishing I felt a strange calm. In a short space — only 176 pages — Dusapin stirs up some soul-stirring reflections. Does grief bring families together, or push them apart? What do we owe to our siblings? And when it comes to picking romantic partners, “would you rather be desired for your whole life, without being loved? Or would you prefer to be loved, like a friend?” Oof. It’s an ideal book for this sweep-out-the-old, ring-in-the-new time of year.' The Times
‘A really beautiful, quiet novel. A story of secrets and family, asking and answering the question if one can ever really can go home again.’ LitHub
‘Evokes unresolved family history with subtle heat…spare, restrained…vivid and intriguing. Her superb translator, Aneesa Abbas Higgins, recreates Dusapin’s concise observations with lyrical choices.’ Idra Novey, The New York Times
‘Dusapin’s storytelling and exploration of complicated female relationships evokes Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels and Michael Ondaatje’s Divisadero.’ Willamette Weekly
‘Poignant.’ Wall Street Journal
‘A relatively short novel but with an impact that will last much longer than its reading time. Subtle, strange, complex.’ GQ
‘A major piece of work that deserves repeated rereading to unpack each of its mythic items.’ ELN
Félicitations à Marie Neuser dont le très attendu Félicitations à Marie Neuser dont le très attendu nouveau roman, L'ÎLE OU JE NE SUIS PAS MORTE (à paraître aux Editions Le Rouergue le 25 mars) est dans la première sélection du Prix Ouest-France Etonnants Voyageurs 2026.
#marieneuser
Congratulations to Thuân ! Her best-selling novel, Congratulations to Thuân ! Her best-selling novel, CHINATOWN (Tilted Axis Press), translated from Vietnamese in English (by Nguyen An Lý) is shortlisted for the Chommanard International Women's Literary Award 2025. 👏👏👏
#thuận 
@editions.riveneuve
Congratulations to Leila S. Chudori ! Her best-sel Congratulations to Leila S. Chudori ! Her best-selling novel, THE SEA SPEAKS HIS NAME (Penguin), translated from Indonesian in English (by John H. McGlynn) is shortlisted for the Chommanard International Women's Literary Award 2025. 👏👏👏
Just out at Wydawnictwo w Podwórku : ŻYCIOPISANIE Just out at Wydawnictwo w Podwórku : ŻYCIOPISANIE DWA ESEJE, the Polish translation (by Krzysztof Jarosz) of DEUX MALLES ET UNE MARMITE, by Ananda Devi (Ed. Project'Îles, 2021).
#anandadevi
✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Congratulations to Hervé Le Tellier ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
Congratulations to Hervé Le Tellier for the prestigious 15th Würth Prize for European Literature. The author receives the award from the Würth Foundation “for the intensity with which he addresses exceptional states of human existence in his wide-ranging work and the originality with which he takes up and develops formal experiments in modern literature,” the jury said. “Le Tellier is a master of connection and allusion and of playing with literary genres.” The Würth Foundation will present the award, which is endowed with 25,000 euros, in April 2026 at the Carmen Würth Forum in Künzelsau. 
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Former winners
• 2024 Colm Tóibín 
• 2022 Annie Ernaux 
• 2020 David Grossman 
• 2018 Christoph Ransmayr 
• 2016 Peter Handke 
• 2014 Péter Nádas 
• 2012 Hanna Krall 
• 2010 Ilija Trojanow 
• 2008 Peter Turrini 
• 2006 Herta Müller 
• 2004 Harald Hartung 
• 2002 Claude Vigée 
• 2000 Claudio Magris 
• 1998 Hermann Lenz
(c) photo Francesca Mantovani
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Out on January 21st at Seix Barral : EL NOMBRE EN Out on January 21st at Seix Barral : EL NOMBRE EN EL MURO, the Spanish translation (by Pablo Martín Sánchez) of LE NOM SUR LE MUR, by Hervé Le Tellier (Gallimard, 2024).
#herveletellier 
(c) photo Francesca Mantovani
Out in 2025 @rowohltverlag : DER NAME AN DER WAND, Out in 2025 @rowohltverlag : DER NAME AN DER WAND, the German translation (by Romi and Jürgen Ritte) of LE NOM SUR LE MUR, by Hervé Le Tellier (Gallimard, 2024).
#herveletellier 
(c) photo Francesca Mantovani
En librairie ce 14 janvier, dans la collection de En librairie ce 14 janvier, dans la collection de poche des @editionsrivages : LE CIEL DE TOKYO, d'@emilie_desvaux_.
#emiliedesvaux 
#lecieldetokyo 
#tokyo
Just out in the US on Jan 13th @summitbooks : THE Just out in the US on Jan 13th @summitbooks : THE OLD FIRE, the English translation (by Aneesa Abbas Higgins) of LE VIEIL INCENDIE, by @elisashuadusapin (Editions Zoe, 2023).
#elisashuadusapin

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