Tag: French
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The Romance Language Collections Instagram feed brings forth little known and new resources and services in the UC Berkeley Library. Once you start following you’ll instantly receive early notices of new books, e-resources, exhibits, readings and more through your smartphone or any web browser.
Trial access to Classiques Garnier Numérique
The UC Berkeley Library has set up a 60-day trail to all ebook collections and ejournals published by Classiques Garnier Numérique in Paris. Several years ago, the Library purchased perpetual access to several of its databases including Grand Corpus des dictionnaires [du 9e au 20e siècle], Grand Corpus des grammaires françaises, des remarques et des traités sur la langue (XIVe-XVIIe s.), and Corpus Montaigne but not yet to any of the ejournals or ebook collections.
Since 1896, Éditions Classiques Garnier has been publishing literary works from around the world, French and foreign, ancient and modern, in reference editions. In 2009, under the editorial direction of Claude Blum, the independent publishing house expanded the scope of its publications to all areas relating to literature and social sciences: editing studies and essays in the leading fields in French and foreign literature, linguistics, history, art, music, law, economics and social sciences. The quantity of the signature yellow-bound paperback books in Berkeley’s collection is extensive. The journals we currently subscribe to in print include La Lettre clandestine, Revue d’Histoire et de Philosophie religieuses, Cahiers Octave Mirbeau, Revue Nerval, Bulletin de la Société Paul Claudel, and Constellation Cendrars. Ten of their journals, including Revue d’histoire littéraire de la France, are partially archived in JSTOR but not all available to UCB.
Access to more of the digital content from this publisher would greatly enhance our electronic holdings and expand the accessibility of content in French. Please give it a try before January 15, 2022 and let me know if you’d like to recommend any titles or collections we might put on our wish-list.
Claude Potts
cpotts AT berkeley DOT edu
Librarian for Romance Language Collections
New book by Mairi McLaughlin in the French Department
La presse française historique: histoire d’un genre et histoire de la langue. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021.
Mairi McLaughlin is Associate Professor of French and an Affiliated Member of the Linguistics Department and the Department of Italian Studies. She specializes in French/Romance Linguistics and Translation Studies. Her most recent publication presents the results of the first major study into the history of language in the French press. It has a dual aim: to shed light on the history of the genre of journalism and to explore what the study of historical periodicals can bring to our understanding of the history of language.
Professor McLaughlin discussed her recent book with David Bates (Rhetoric) on November 10, 2021 through the Townsend Center’s Berkeley Book Chats.
New French ebooks in Cairn.info
This past spring, the UC Berkeley Library added 181 French ebooks to our existing collection from Franco-Belgian vendor Cairn.info. Though they aren’t yet discoverable in OskiCat or in the new UC Library Search unified catalog which launches on July 27, they can be read along with other ebooks and ejournals on the Cairn website.
French ebooks from L’Harmathèque
Here’s a list of 350 French ebooks (and a couple in Spanish) acquired last year but just recently batch cataloged. Now available through OskiCat, they are discoverable by author, title, or keyword along with other digital versions by the same publisher L’Harmattan which specializes in topics related to Africa, Europe and the rest of the world. Search by handle “Harmathèque ebooks” to pull up the full list of 1041 titles in Berkeley’s collection.
French Literary Prize Winners 2019
France’s array of literary prizes offer a glimpse of emerging French and francophone writers, and also award accolades to the well-known. The winning titles with hyperlinks on this list provided by Amalivre in Paris are now available for check-out in UC Berkeley’s collection. To view the most recent book purchases across disciplines within French studies, please consult the recent acquisitions list in OskiCat.
| Fall Awards | Author | Title | Publisher | ||
| Governor General’s Literary Award (roman français) | * | Céline Huyghebaert | Le drap blanc | Le Quartanier | |
| Grand prix de la littérature policière | * | Richard Morgiève | Le Cherokee | Joëlle Losfeld | |
| Grand prix du roman de l’Académie Française | * | Laurent Binet | Civilizations | Grasset | |
| Grand prix du roman métis | * | Laurent Gaudé | Salina: les trois exils | Actes sud | |
| Prix Décembre | * | Claudie Hunziger | Les grands cerfs | Grasset | |
| Prix de Flore | Sofia Aouine | Rhapsodie des oubliés | La Martinière | ||
| Prix de la langue française | * | Louis-Philippe Dalembert | Mur méditerranée | Sabine Wespieser | |
| Prix de la nouvelle de l’Académie française | * | Louis-Antoine Prat | Belle encore et autres nouvelles | Somogy | |
| Prix des cinq continents de la francophonie | * | Gilles Jobidon | Le tranquille affligé | Leméac | |
| Prix du roman FNAC | * | Bérengère Cournut | De pierre et d’os | Le Tripode | |
| Prix Femina | * | Sylvain Prudhomme | Par les routes | Gallimard | |
| Prix Femina essai | * | Emmanuelle Lambert | Giono, furioso | Stock | |
| Prix Goncourt | * | Jean-Paul Dubois | Tous les hommes n’habitent pas le monde de la même façon | L’Olivier | |
| Prix Goncourt des lycéens | * | Karine Tuil | Les choses humaines | Gallimard | |
| Prix Guillaume Apollinaire (Poetry) | * | Olivier Barbarant | Un grand instant | Champ Vallon | |
| Prix Interallié | * | Karine Tuil | Les choses humaines | Gallimard | |
| Prix Landernau | * | Sylvain Prudhomme | Par les routes | Gallimard | |
| Prix Médicis | * | Luc Lang | La tentation | Stock | |
| Prix Médicis essai | * | Bulle Ogier & Anne Diatkine | J’ai oublié | Seuil | |
| Prix Renaudot | * | Sylvain Tesson | La panthère des neiges | Gallimard | |
| Prix Renaudot des lycéens | * | Victoria Mas | Le bal des folles | Albin Michel | |
| Prix Renaudot essai | * | Eric Neuhoff | (Très) cher cinéma français | Albin Michel | |
| Prix Senghor du premier roman francophone | * |
Ester Mann & Levon Minassian
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Le fil des anges | Vents d’ailleurs | |
| Prix Wepler | * | Lucie Taïeb | Les échappées | Editions de l’Ogre | |
| Other General Literary Prizes | |||||
| Prix des Deux Magots (January) | * | Emmanuel de Waresquiel | Le temps de s’en apercevoir | L’Iconoclaste | |
| Prix des Libraires (June) | * | Franck Bouysse | Né d’aucune femme |
La Manufacture de Livres
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| Grand prix de la francophonie de l’Académie Française | * | ||||
| Grand prix littéraire de l’Afrique noire (May) | * | Armand Gauz | Camarade Papa | Nouvel Attila | |
| Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman (May) | * | Marie Gauthier | Court vêtue | Gallimard | |
| Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle | * | Caroline Lamarche | Nous sommes à la lisière | Gallimard | |
| Prix Ahmadou Kourouma (May) | * | David Diop | Frère d’âme | ||
| Prix Goncourt de la poésie (May) | * | Yvon Le Men | awarded for the body of his work | ||
| Prix Goncourt de la biographie (June) | * | Frédéric Pajak | Manifeste incertain 7 | Noir sur blanc | |
| Prix Landernau Polar (May) | * | Thomas Canteloube | Réquiem pour une République | Gallimard | |
| European Union Prize for Literature (auteurs français) | * | Sophie Daull | awarded for the ensemble of her work | Ed. Philippe Rey | |
| Prix Mallarmé (Poetry) | * | Claudine Bohi | Naître, c’est longtemps | La tête à l’envers | |
| Prix Orange (June) | * | Jean-Baptiste Maudet | Matador Yankee | Le Passage | |
| Prix de l’Académie française Maurice Genevoix (June) | * | Jean-Marie Planes | Une vie de soleil | Arléa | |
| Prix Ouest France Etonnants Voyageurs (June) | * | Anaïs Llobet | Des hommes couleur de ciel | Ed. de l’Observatoire | |
| Prix des Lecteurs de L’Express (June) | * | Jean-Claude Grumberg | La plus précieuse des marchandises | Seuil | |
| Prix Jean d’Ormesson (new 2018 –not restricted to living authors or new titles) | * | Julian Barnes | La seule histoire (translated from the English) | Gallimard | |
| Grand Prix de Poésie de l’Académie française | * | Pierre Oster | For the ensemble of his work | ||
| Prix de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (June) | * | Virginie Despentes | For the ensemble of her work | ||
| Prix du livre Inter (June) | * | Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam | Arcadie | POL |