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Patrick Rambaud is a French writer.
Life
With Michel-Antoine Burnier, he wrote forty pastiches, (satirical novels).
They wrote
Le Journalisme sans peine (Editions Plon, 1997).
In 1970, he help found the iconic magazine
Actuel.
Awards
Rambaud received these awards for his book
The BattleThe Battle is a historical novel by the French author Patrick Rambaud that was first published in 1997. The English translation by Will Hobson appeared in 2000. The book describes the 1809 Battle of Aspern-Essling between the French Empire under Napoleon and the Austrian Empire...
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- 1997 Prix Goncourt
The Prix Goncourt is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year"...
- 1997 Grand Prix du Roman of the Académie française
L'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...
English Translations
- The Battle
The Battle is a historical novel by the French author Patrick Rambaud that was first published in 1997. The English translation by Will Hobson appeared in 2000. The book describes the 1809 Battle of Aspern-Essling between the French Empire under Napoleon and the Austrian Empire...
Translators Will Hobson. Grove Press. 2001. ISBN 9780802138101.
- The Retreat
The Retreat is a historic novel by the French author Patrick Rambaud that was first published in 2000. The English translation by Will Hobson appeared in 2004....
Translators Will Hobson. Grove Press. 2001. ISBN 9780802138101.
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