 Stéphane Audeguy’s prize-winning first novel The Theory of Clouds was just published by Harcourt Trade. Early reviews have been excellent: “Unconventional and memorable…The shadow of W. B. Sebald looms like cumulonimbus over this novel”. –Kirkus “Beautifully written and imaginatively structured, Audeguy’s book is as diaphanous as its subject” –Publishers’ Weekly “…[A] dazzling ode to the conundrums of cloud lore and human enchantment” –Elle (US)
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Irène Némirovsky’s recently discovered novel Chaleur du sang is being simultaneously published in the US by Knopf and the UK and Commonwealth by Chatto & Windus under the title Fire in the Blood. The book was a bestseller in France, where it was first published by Éditions Denoël in March 2007.
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Anna Gavalda's Ensemble, c’est tout was just published in April as Hunting and Gathering, by Riverhead books in trade paperback in a translation by Alison Anderson.
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Irène Némirovsky’s Suite Française is now out in trade paperback from Vintage and has hit bestseller lists nationwide. The translator Sandra Smith has won numerous awards both in the US and abroad, among them the French-American Foundation Translation Award and the Pen Book-of-the-Month-Club Award.
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Benoît Duteurtre’s La Petite fille et la cigarette was just published in the United States by Melville House Publishers in a translation by Charlotte Mandell under the title The Little Girl and the Cigarette. 12.0pt">
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World English-language rights to Stéphane Audeguy’s Goncourt-nominated second novel, Le fils unique, have been sold to Harcourt Trade Publishers. Audeguy’s first novel, La Théorie des nuages, will be published in the United States in the Fall of 2007
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Faïza Guène's acclaimed first novel Kiffe kiffe demain was published by Harcourt in the US as a trade paperback in July 2006 under the title Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow. Her latest novel, Du rêve pour les oufs was also recently acquired by the same publisher.
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World English rights to Serge Gainsbourg by Gilles Verlant were purchased by Tam Tam Books. This will be the first biography of the singer, songwriter, novelist, and major pop cultural figure to be released in English, and part of the publisher’s plans to make this 20th century icon known to the Anglophone world. Published in France by Éditions Albin Michel.
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We are pleased to announce the purchase of World English rights to four early 20th century classics by Irène Némirovsky by Vintage Books in the U.S. and Chatto & Windus in the U.K. David Golder, Le bal, Les mouches d'automne and L'affaire Courilof were originally published in Paris by Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle.
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World English rights to Livres en feu by Lucien X. Polastron were purchased by Inner Traditions International. Livres en feu won the 2004 "Grand Prix de l'Essai et d'Histoire" given by the SGDL (Société des Gens De Lettres). Published in France by Éditions Denoël.
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World English rights to De la Taille à la Conduite des Arbres Fruitiers were sold to W.W. Norton & Company. A unique and comprehensive guide for both the amateur and the professional orchardist, this photo-filled reference book proposes a new vision and approach to the growing of fruit trees. Published in France by Éditions du Rouergue.
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Traité d'athéologie : Physique de la métaphysique, by the exciting and controversial philosopher and essayist Michel Onfray, a top nonfiction bestseller for over 37 weeks, was bought by Arcade Publishing in the U.S., Penguin Canada in Canada, Serpent's Tail in the U.K. and University of Melbourne Press in Australia. Published in France by Editions Grasset.
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World English rights to Le Chevalier de Sainte-Hermine, the final novel by Alexandre Dumas, a fiction bestseller for over 14 weeks, were purchased by Pegasus Books. Published in France by Éditions Phébus.
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World English rights to Bordeaux Bourgogne: Les Passions Rivales by Jean-Robert Pitte, president of the Sorbonne, were purchased by The University of California Press. This geographical and historical study of the two world-renowned wine regions follows Pitte’s French Gastronomy in the U.S. Published in France by Hachette Littératures.
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World English rights to Le Vieux Jardin, by pre-eminent Korean novelist Hwang Sok-yong, were purchased by Seven Stories Press, who have recently released The Guest, his first novel to be translated into English. The author, who will appear in New York at the April 2006 PEN World Voices Festival. is published in France by Éditions Zulma.
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World English rights to Le crime du poison au Moyen Âge by Franck Collard, the first comprehensive study of the subject, were purchased by Greenwood. Published in France by Presses Universitaires de France.
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This highly acclaimed first novel by Stéphane Audeguy, LA THÉORIE DES NUAGES, has sold to Harcourt Trade Publishers. Compared by the press to Kazuo Ishiguro, Jonathan Coe, and Julian Barnes. Audeguy has been hailed by Le Monde des Livres as a tremendous talent.
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Suite française, Irène Némirovsky’s recently discovered masterpiece and winner of the 2004 Prix Renaudot, was bought by Knopf in the U.S. and Chatto & Windus in the U.K.
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We're delighted to announce that the World English rights to L’Américain by Franz-Olivier Giesbert were sold to Pantheon Books.
Published in France by Editions Gallimard.
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