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American Wins France's Top Book Award... With a Book Written in French

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http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/11/0....ap/index.html

Kinda cool... he's American, yet wrote the novel in French

"Littell was born in the United States, but later lived in France and wrote the book in French as a tribute to two of his favorite authors, Stendhal and Gustave Flaubert. Littell's father, Robert Littell, is known for such spy novels as "Legends" and "An Agent in Place."

The 103-year-old Prix Goncourt guarantees literary acclaim and high sales for an author. Past winners include Marcel Proust, Simone de Beauvoir and Marguerite Duras.

The Goncourt jury members, following tradition, announced the winner after voting in a restaurant near Paris' Opera Garnier.

Goncourt jury member Jorge Semprum, a Spanish author who was part of the anti-Nazi underground in France and was imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp, called it "THE book about this period."
 
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