{"id":279836,"date":"2010-09-14T14:30:15","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T14:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2010\/09\/14\/prix-goncourt-2010\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:31:51","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:31:51","slug":"prix-goncourt-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2010\/09\/14\/prix-goncourt-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Prix Goncourt 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.academie-goncourt.fr\/\">longlist<\/a> for this year&#8217;s Goncourt Prize was announced last week, and includes some familiar names&#8212;Amelie Nothomb, Michel Houellebecq&#8212;and some new, up-and-coming writers, such as Mathias Enard. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the complete list for all you Francophiles who may have missed this<sup class=\"footnote\"><a href=\"#fn11255204994c90e5e20e7d1\">1<\/a><\/sup>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Olivier Adam, <em>Le coeur r\u00e9gulier<\/em> (L\u2019Olivier) <br \/>\n(I feel like Adam is on this list every single year . . . )<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Vassilis Alexakis, <em>Le premier mot<\/em> (Stock)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>T. Beinstingel, <em>Retour aux mots sauvages<\/em> (Fayard)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Vincent Borel,  <em>Antoine et Isabelle<\/em> (S. Wespieser)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Virginie Despentes, <em>Apocalypse b\u00e9b\u00e9<\/em> (Grasset)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Marc Dugain, <em>L&#8217;insomnie des \u00e9toiles<\/em> (Gallimard)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Mathias Enard, <em>Parle-leur de batailles, de rois et d&#8216;\u00e9l\u00e9phants<\/em> (Actes Sud) <br \/>\n(Self-promotional moment here, but you should all <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/25#zone\">buy a copy of <em>Zone.<\/em><\/a> I&#8217;ll personally wrap your copy up with my love and eternal gratitude.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Michel Houellebecq, <em>La carte et le territoire<\/em> (Flammarion)<br \/>\n(Which apparently is nothing but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/sep\/07\/michel-houllebecq-novel-plagiarism-accusation\">Wikipedia in novel form.<\/a> I kid. This &#8220;controversy&#8221; is a bit silly, and the book sounds very different from other Houellebecq books, yet still sounds interesting.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Maylis de Kerangal, <em>Naissance d\u2019un pont<\/em> (Verticales)<br \/>\n(Verticales does awesome books.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Patrick Lapeyre, <em>La vie est br\u00e8ve et le d\u00e9sir sans fin<\/em> (P.O.L.)<br \/>\n(As does P.O.L.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Fouad Laroui, <em>Une ann\u00e9e chez les Fran\u00e7ais<\/em> (Julliard)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Am\u00e9lie Nothomb, <em>Une forme de vie<\/em> (Albin Michel)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Chantal Thomas, <em>Le testament d&#8217;Olympe<\/em> (Seuil)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Karine Tuil, <em>Six mois, six jours<\/em> (Grasset)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"fn11255204994c90e5e20e7d1\" class=\"footnote\"><sup>1<\/sup> Reserving my typical rant for the footnotes . . . I know I&#8217;m beating a horse corpse here, but the Acad\u00e9mie Goncourt website is <span class=\"caps\">DREADFUL<\/span>. The Goncourt is one of the world&#8217;s most recognized book awards&#8212;one that even <em>Americans<\/em> tend to pay attention to. (Well not really&#8212;we&#8217;re all too busy reading this Franzen character, but still. There are at least a few people in this country curious about the results.) Granted, French websites&#8212;like French book covers&#8212;are not well known for their creativity or design aesthetics, but please, there are a number of very small, very simple things you could do to improve this browsing experience. Descriptions of the longlist titles? That would be nice. Or if you&#8217;re too lazy to do that, at least link from the Goncourt site to the publisher pages for the books. (Assuming and assuming, but hopefully there&#8217;s some info online about all of these books.) Of course, like with all international awards, I&#8217;d love English sample translations, but that&#8217;s self-serving and asking way too much of any organization. Although asking that you fix some of the typography on this list, or at least italicize the titles is pretty reasonable, I think. (Seriously, check out the link above.) Not to get all patriotic or shit, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalbook.org\/index.html\">National Book Foundation&#8217;s website<\/a> makes me proud to live in a country where <del>we<\/del> some people have figured out the basics of how the Internet works. I love your books, France, please let me find out more about them in an easy, 21st century fashion. <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad_banner\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/24-saer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/543.jpg\"  \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The longlist for this year&#8217;s Goncourt Prize was announced last week, and includes some familiar names&#8212;Amelie Nothomb, Michel Houellebecq&#8212;and some new, up-and-coming writers, such as Mathias Enard. Here&#8217;s the complete list for all you Francophiles who may have missed this1: Olivier Adam, Le coeur r\u00e9gulier (L\u2019Olivier) (I feel like Adam is on this list every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[6066],"class_list":["post-279836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-prix-goncourt"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347366,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279836\/revisions\/347366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}