During a Zoom event with the French and English language bookstore Albertine, Zeniter discussed how things began to fall into place when she thought of the book as an epic. Like Odysseus, Zeniter’s ...

A powerful account of what happened to an Algerian "harki" family who sided with the French during the country's war of independence won France's most lucrative book prize Thursday. "The Art of Losing ...

“I got an email from my publisher. I’d just woken up, I was really confused. I thought they’d sent it to the wrong person!” French novelist Alice Zeniter is speaking to me after learning that her ...

French author Alice Zeniter and Irish translator Frank Wynne have won the 2022 Dublin Literary Award, sponsored by Dublin City Council for the novel The Art of Losing. The award is the world's largest ...

The Art of Losing by French author Alice Zeniter, translated by Irishman Frank Wynne, has won the 2022 Dublin Literary Award, worth €100,000, the world’s largest prize for a single novel published in ...

How much do most of us know about the Algerian War, the bloody conflict that raged between the French army and the Algerian Front de Libération Nationale (FLN), between 1954 and 1962, ending more than ...

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The winner of Ireland’s biggest literary prize has described the rise of the far right in France as “terrifying.” French author Alice Zeniter and Irish translator Frank Wynne have today been confirmed ...

In the last 25 years, the workplace has become increasingly important in literary narratives. The role of women in the professional world is well represented in works of fiction by Annie Ernaux, Marie ...

Books by Akwaeke Emezi, David Diop and Alice Zeniter have been shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, the world’s most valuable annual prize for a single work of fiction. Now in its 27th year, the ...