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The Man Booker International Prize Longlist is out!
The Book Office is delighted to hear that Laurent Binet's The 7th Function of Language (translated by Sam Taylor for Harvill Secker) and...
A very happy World Book Day!
On this March 1st, the Book Office wishes you a happy World Book Day! ... Who said that it was only about children's books? For this...
First Palmer Prize in the Queen's College, Oxford
The Book Office is delighted to share exciting news for translation in the academic world! The Queen's College, in Oxford, just launched...
"La Francophonie" – in books!
In the last few weeks, you might have heard the names of Emmanuel Macron, Leïla Slimani, Alain Mabanckou, and a number of other writers...
Happy Literary Valentine’s Day!
Your better half is away? You are too tired to go out? You are single anyway? … … Well, that doesn’t matter at all, because what we would...
Georges Simenon’s birthday, a celebration in translation
The Book Office is delighted to celebrate Georges Simenon’s 115th birthday today! (Wait, are we a day too early? It seems that the...
Homage to the writer Mathieu Riboulet
The Book Office is sad to announce the loss of Mathieu Riboulet, who passed away yesterday in Bordeaux. Aged 57, Mathieu Riboulet had...
Burgess 2018 Grant: the results!
Ahoy, bookworms! It gives us great joy, here at the Book Office, to announce the list of books we’re be supporting the translation of...
« About My Mother »: Tahar Ben Jelloun’s novel longlisted for the EBRD Literature Prize
The Book Office is thrilled to announce that Tahar Ben Jelloun’s remarkable novel About My Mother made it to the longlist of the first...
Homage to the famous French Publisher Jean-Claude Lattès
It is with great sadness that we learnt about the decease of Jean-Claude Lattès, on January 27th, in Paris, at the age of 76. Jean-Claude...
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