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David Diop Wins the International Booker Prize for At Night All Blood is Black

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2yY2NYlT74 On Wednesday the novel At Night All Blood is Black, written by David Diop and translated from the French by Anna Moschovakis, was announced as the winner of the 2021 International Booker Prize. The announcement was made by the chair of judges Lucy Hughes-Hallett during a virtual ceremony hosted from Coventry Cathedral. Diop and Moschovakis will split the £50,000 prize,...

The Rules of the Game (1939)

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★★★★ (4 out of 4 stars) - Instead Renoir produced a bawdy comedy with French airs and graces, which seems to share much in common with so many American films of the late thirties with their loose morals, gender distortions, and hedonistic flushes of romance. The inspirations may have been Marivaux and Beaumarchais, but in style and temperament The Rules of the Game rubs up equally alongside The Philadelphia Story and the screwball comedies of Howard Hawks.

Juliette Gréco, Doyenne of the French Chanson, Dies at 93

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvJSkGd-t6U Juliette Gréco, doyenne of the French chanson, died on Wednesday at the age of 93 years old. Once described by Jean-Paul Sartre as carrying 'a million poems in her voice', the tributes were led by French president Emmanuel Macron, who wrote that 'The muse of Saint-Germain-des-Prés is immortal'. Born in Montpellier and raised by her maternal grandparents in Bordeaux, Gréco...