The French literary prize season now also starts to get rolling, beginning with the announcement of the première sélection pour le prix Goncourt 2012.
Among the authors with books in the running who have previously had books translated into English are Tierno Monénembo, Mathias Énard, Linda Lê, and Vassilis Alexakis; apparently the failure of Olivier Adam's Les Lisières (see the Flammarion publicity page, get your copy at Amazon.fr) to make this longlist is the (relatively) big surprise.
Among the authors with books in the running who have previously had books translated into English are Tierno Monénembo, Mathias Énard, Linda Lê, and Vassilis Alexakis; apparently the failure of Olivier Adam's Les Lisières (see the Flammarion publicity page, get your copy at Amazon.fr) to make this longlist is the (relatively) big surprise.