American Novelist Becomes French Citizen
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American novelist Jonathan Littell, whose award-winning, 900-page World War II opus is written in French, has been granted French nationality.Comment
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It's not likely to make President George W. Bush's reading list anytime soon, but a new book out in France recalls -- for those who may have forgotten -- that transatlantic disagreements are alive and kicking.
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The Canadian actor has become a US citizen.
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Le Cafe de Flore, the famous Paris hangout once frequented by the likes of Jean-Paul Sartre and Ernest Hemingway, has awarded its annual literary prize to a gay US novelist for his story about a homosexual tryst in Romania.
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PARIS -- In a new book seen as a prelude to a presidential bid, France's finance minister is taking up the thorny question of how to reach out to an increasingly assertive Muslim minority and integrate it into a largely secular society.
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France's antiterrorist police on Friday identified a young Frenchman killed fighting the United States in Iraq, the first confirmed case of what is believed to be a growing stream of Muslims heading from Europe ...
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Maren Soetebeer said she wanted to live in America to discover a different culture and to discover herself.
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French author Francoise Sagan, who shot  to fame with her first novel "Bonjour Tristesse" at the age of  18 and courted controversy throughout her life, died on Friday,  a hospital spokesman said. Sagan, who was 69, was an icon of  1950s intellectuals and lived the Bohemian lifestyle she  portrayed in her writing. She was a longstanding friend of late  President Francois Mitterrand and was convicted of taking drugs  and for tax evasion.
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The 33-year-old British expat in Paris writes under the pseudonym "La Petite Anglaise" and tells of love affairs, single motherhood and office bloopers with self-deprecating, "Bridget Jones"-style humor.
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French author Francoise Sagan, who shot to fame with her first novel &quot;Bonjour Tristesse&quot; at the age of 18 and courted controversy throughout her life, died on Friday, a hospital spokesman said.
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France mourned the passing of writer Francoise Sagan, who shot to literary fame with her first novel Bonjour Tristesse, and prepared for her funeral next week.
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A current best-seller in France, which was written shortly before its Jewish author was sent to her death in Auschwitz, has taken 62 years to be published.
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In a new book seen as a prelude to a presidential bid, France's finance minister is taking up the thorny question of how to reach out to an increasingly assertive Muslim minority and integrate it into a largely secular society.
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MANTES-LA-JOLIE, France -- Fernand Trigano stood beside a rack of $8 jeans and watched French presidential candidate Francois Bayrou work a street market in an immigrant suburb of Paris, shaking hands over baskets of dried fish, stacks of flat bread and mannequins modeling head scarves.
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Wladimir Kaminer, the author of several best-selling books about Russian immigrants in Germany, has become an emblem of Berlin's emerging hybrid culture.
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TOULOUSE, France  - French rock star Bertrand  Cantat arrived in France from Lithuania on Tuesday to serve out  in a French prison the remainder of his eight-year sentence for  murdering his actress girlfriend.
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The first time Hungarian author Imre Kertesz met Americans, they were soldiers rescuing him from a concentration camp in Nazi Germany.