Who has won more awards for literature, Romain Rolland or Jim Crace?
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Romain Rolland Romain Rolland (] ; 29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings".
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Jim Crace James Crace (born 1 March 1946) is an award-winning English writer and novelist. His novels include "Quarantine", which was judged Whitbread Novel of 1998, and "Harvest", which won the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the 2013 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize.
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Robert Joseph Greene Robert Joseph Greene (born January 11, 1973) is a Canadian author of gay romance fiction, best known for "The Gay Icon Classics of the World", a collection of gay-themed love stories from over 12 different countries. Each story represents a culture and a people. The book was listed by PFLAG Canada as a recommended book in their "Books Worth Reading" section.
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Olivier Rabourdin Olivier Rabourdin (born 3 March 1959) is a French film actor. He has appeared in more than seventy films since 1985. In 2010 he was nominated for a French César Award in the category of Best Supporting Actor (Meilleur acteur dans un second rôle) for the role of Christophe in the film "Of Gods and Men".
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Jean Follain Jean Follain (29 August 1903 – 10 March 1971) was a French author, poet and corporate lawyer. In the early days of his career he was a member of the "Sagesse" group. Follain was a friend of Max Jacob, André Salmon, Jean Paulhan, Pierre Pussy, Armen Lubin, and Pierre Reverdy. He was a contributor to many journals, such as "La Nouvelle Revue française", "Commerce", "Europe", "Le Journal des Poètes" and "Les Cahiers des Saisons". In 1970, he was awarded the Grand Prize of Poetry from L'Académie française for his life's work. A small part of his archives is conserved at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Saint-Lô in France. "Prix littéraire Jean Follain de la Ville de Saint Lô" is a literary award honouring his name and contributions to French literature. He studied law in Paris and became a judge. He died in 1971 in a car accident.
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Robert Gover Robert Gover (November 2, 1929 – January 12, 2015) was an American journalist who became a best-selling novelist at age 30. His first novel, "One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding", a satire on American racism, remains a cult classic that helped break down America's fear of four-letter words and sexually explicit scenes, as well as sensitizing Americans to sanctimonious hypocrisy. Gover worked with writers for three decades, and one of his best known students was American writer Christopher Klim. "On the Run with Dick and Jane" was his ninth novel. His previous book, "Time and Money", explores economic and planetary cyclical correlations. In 2015, the Eric Hoffer Prose Award was renamed the Gover Story Prize in his honor.
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Brice Matthieussent Brice Matthieussent (born 1950) is an award-winning French literary translator. He has translated over 200 novels from English into French. He won the 2013 Prix Jules Janin from the Académie française for his translations of the works of Jim Harrison.
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2000 Governor General's Awards The 2000 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were presented by Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada, and Jean-Louis Roux, Chairman of the Canada Council for the Arts, on November 14 at Rideau Hall.
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François Mauriac François Charles Mauriac (] ; 11 October 1885 – 1 September 1970) was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the" Académie française" (from 1933), and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952). He was awarded the Grand Cross of the "Légion d'honneur" in 1958.
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Fabien Cloutier Fabien Cloutier is a Canadian actor and playwright from Quebec. He is best known for his play "Pour réussir un poulet", which won the Governor General's Award for French language drama at the 2015 Governor General's Awards. He was previously shortlisted for the same award at the 2012 Governor General's Awards, and won the Prix Gratien-Gélinas in 2011, for "Billy (Les jours de hurlement)".
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French literature French literature is, generally speaking, literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France; it may also refer to literature written by people living in France who speak traditional languages of France other than French. Literature written in French language, by citizens of other nations such as Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, Senegal, Algeria, Morocco, etc. is referred to as Francophone literature. As of 2006, French writers have been awarded more Nobel Prizes in Literature than novelists, poets and essayists of any other country. France itself ranks first in the list of Nobel Prizes in literature by country.
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Rolland Courbis Rolland Courbis (] ; born 12 August 1953 in Marseille) is a French football manager and former football defender. He was most recently manager of Stade Rennais FC, having replaced Philippe Montanier on the 20th of January, 2016.
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Matthias Rolland Matthias Rolland (born 2 July 1979) is a French rugby union player. His position is Lock and he currently plays for Castres Olympique in the Top 14. He began his career with Colomiers, moving to Montauban in 2006 and helping them gain promotion to the Top 14 before moving to Castres Olympique in 2009.
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Jean-Paul Pinsonneault Jean-Paul Pinsonneault (1923 - 1978) was a Canadian writer, who won the Prix Québec-Paris and the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction in 1964 for his novel "Les terres sèches". He also published the plays "Cette terre de faim", "Electre" and "Terre d'aube", and the novels "Jérôme Aquin", "Le mauvais pain" and "Les abîmes de l'aube".
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James Reaney James Crerar Reaney, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (September 1, 1926 – June 11, 2008) was a Canadian poet, playwright, librettist, and professor, "whose works transform small-town Ontario life into the realm of dream and symbol." Reaney won Canada's highest literary award, the Governor General's Award, three times and received the Governor General's Award for Poetry or Drama for both his poetry and his drama.
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Romain Roussel Romain Roussel (1898 in Le Teil, Ardèche – 1973) was a 20th-century French writer, laureate of the Prix Interallié in 1937.
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Romain Le romain, French for 'The Roman' could refer to:
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Gonzague Saint Bris Gonzague Saint Bris (16 January 1948 – 8 August 2017) was an award-winning French novelist, biographer and journalist. He won the 2002 Prix Interallié for "Les Vieillards de Brighton". He was the founder of La Forêt des livres, an annual book festival, and the Cabourg Film Festival. With his family, he was a co-proprietor of Clos Lucé.
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Surfacing (film) Surfacing is a Canadian drama film. Directed by Claude Jutra and released in 1981, the film was written by Bernard Gordon as an adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel "Surfacing".
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Georges Rollin Georges Rollin (1912–1964) was a French film actor.
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Michèle Perrein Michèle Perrein (30 October 1929 – 13 February 2010) was a French journalist and writer, recipient of the Prix Interallié in 1984.
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Ronald Harwood Sir Ronald Harwood, CBE, FRSL (born Ronald Horwitz; 9 November 1934) is an author, playwright and screenwriter. He is most noted for his plays for the British stage as well as the screenplays for "The Dresser" (for which he was nominated for an Oscar) and "The Pianist", for which he won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He was nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (2007).