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Small Country, Gaël Faye
Small Country (Penguin) - Petit Pays, in French (Grasset) - by Gaël Faye and translated by Sarah Ardizzone is today's Book of the week...
Portrait of the poet Meriem Terki
Meriem Terki was born in Lorient on November 28, 1994, she grew up and attended school in Châtellerault. After obtaining her bachelor’s...
Homage to the philosopher Clément Rosset
It is with great regret that the Book Office learnt of the death of Clément Rosset. A French philosopher and professor at the University...
Your Father's Room, Michel Déon
The Book Office is delighted to be presenting Your Father's Room, by Michel Déon, as book of the week! Later, although he wondered about...
No Place to Lay One's Head, Françoise Frenkel
The Book Office was completely taken by No Place to Lay One's Head, by Françoise Frenkel. What makes No Place to Lay One's Head unique is...
"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...
Translating Vénus Khoury-Ghata’s "Seven Stones"
The Book Office is delighted to present the Book of the week: Seven Stones, by Vénus Khoury-Ghata. Aneesa Abbas Higgins, translator of...
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...
Kazuo Ishiguro, Nobel Prize in Literature
No one had expected him, and yet... The novelist Kazuo Ishiguro has worked for a long time, carving patiently sentences which are a...
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