Literature

Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by , Permanent Secretary of the , on December 10, 1921 Anatole France was no longer a young man when, in 1881, he captured the attention of the literary public in France and subsequently in the civilized world with his curious novel, Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard. He had behind him a long…

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Bio-bibliography

French Notice biobibliographique Gao Xingjan, né le 4 janvier 1940 à Ganzhou ( la province de Jiangxi ) dans la Chine orientale, à présent citoyen français. Prosateur, traducteur, dramaturge, metteur en scène, critique et artiste. Gao Xingjan grandit dans les répercussions de l’invasion japonaise. Son père était banquier, sa mère, actrice-amateur, éveilla tôt l’intérêt de…

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Biographical

Halldór Kiljan Laxness was born in 1902 in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, but spent his youth in the country. From the age of seventeen on, he travelled and lived abroad, chiefly on the European continent. He was influenced by expressionism and other modern currents in Germany and France. In the mid-twenties he was converted…

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