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Jonathan Littell (born October 10, 1967) is a writer living in Barcelona. His first novel written in French, The Kindly Ones (2006; Les Bienveillantes), won two major French awards, including the Prix Goncourt and the Prix de l'Académie française. Littell grew up in France and the United States and is a citizen of both countries. After ...
The Kindly Ones (French: Les Bienveillantes) is a 2006 historical fiction novel written in French by American-born author Jonathan Littell.The book is narrated by its fictional protagonist Maximilien Aue, a former SS officer of French and German ancestry who was a Holocaust perpetrator and was present during several major events of World War II.
Michael Arlen, Bulgarian born Armenian-British author; Nadeem Aslam, Pakistani-British novelist; Augustine of Hippo, Numidian Berber philosopher writing in Latin; Ba Jin, Chinese and Esperanto author. He wrote three original works in Esperanto. [1] Samuel Beckett, Irish-French playwright and novelist; Costanzo Beschi, Italian-Tamil writer
The General: Charles de Gaulle and the France He Saved is a non-fiction book authored by the British historian and journalist Jonathan Fenby.Published in 2010 by Simon & Schuster, [1] the biography details the life and times of the iconic French statesman Charles de Gaulle, with the 20th-century history of the senior general and politician's nation also receiving focus.
Jonathan Mark Weiss (born May 3, 1942) is an American scholar of French literature and social science whose extensive publications include literary and theatre criticism, essays on Franco-American relations, a short story, and most recently the biography of Irène Némirovsky.
It is the first book in French's Dublin Murder Squad series. [1] The novel won several awards such as the 2008 Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author, [2] the 2008 Barry Award for Best First Novel, [3] the 2008 Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel, [4] and the 2008 Anthony Award for Best First Novel. [5]
The Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off (SPFBO) is an annual literary contest intended to bring greater visibility to self-published English-language fantasy authors. The SPFBO has been operated since 2015 by the author Mark Lawrence. He distributes about 300 novels submitted by the authors to ten fantasy bloggers to review. Each blogger selects a ...
The Four Wise Men (French: Gaspard, Melchior et Balthazar) is a 1980 novel by Michel Tournier, published by Éditions Gallimard.Ralph Manheim translated the work into English, and the translation was first published in the United States by Doubleday and Company in 1982, [1] and in the United Kingdom by William Collins, Sons in 1982.