Seven years ago, the judges behind France’s second-biggest literary prize honored a pedophile writer, Gabriel Matzneff. Now, they have turned to a little-known female writer from a small publisher.

SARAN, France — On a recent afternoon near Orléans, in the Loire Valley, members of the jury of France’s newest literary prize trickled out of their prison cells.

France's most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, has been awarded to Franco-Algerian author Kamel Daoud for his novel “Houris” - a fictional account of the massacres during Algeria ...

Imagine if you told someone you were going to write an entire book -- 150,000 words -- that would be one single sentence. That’s what Mathias Énard did in “Zone,” which, despite its avant ...

French-born writer Marie NDiaye won France's top literary prize Monday for "Three Strong Women," her moving tale of the struggles of women in Europe and Africa.

The country’s top literary prize has been awarded to a woman 11 times—and to a man 102 times.

Stockholm — French author Annie Ernaux, who has mined her own biography to explore life in France since the 1940s, was awarded this year's Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for work that ...