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No lovers allowed, Goncourt prize judges are told

The Times/The Sunday Times 06 Oct 2021

Didier Decoin, the Goncourt chairman, said that the panel, which includes Laurens, had voted Noudelmann’s book on to the shortlist before discovering his relationship with her ... .

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No lovers allowed in top French book prize after ethics scandal

Raw Story 05 Oct 2021

France's top literary prize, the Goncourt, will no longer allow lovers and family members of the jury to be entered for consideration, it was announced Tuesday, following a scandal last month ... The distaste with Laurens' review in Le Monde was already clear last month, with Didier Decoin, president of the Goncourt Academy, telling France Inter radio.

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François Noudelmann: Dangerous liaison mars literary shortlist

The Times/The Sunday Times 22 Sep 2021

Didier Decoin, the Goncourt chairman, said the judges had voted to put. .

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Bad Sex In Fiction Award cancelled as public faced ‘too many bad things’ in 2020

Metro UK 09 Dec 2020

Last year’s winners (Picture. Getty – Emmanuel College). The annual Bad Sex In Fiction Award has been cancelled with organisers saying people have suffered enough in 2020 ... Last year it was won by two writers – French author Didier Decoin and John Harvey, a fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge – after the judges struggled to pick just one winner ... .

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Bad sex award cancelled as public exposed to ‘too many bad things in 2020’

The Guardian 08 Dec 2020

Last year it was jointly won by Didier Decoin for The Office of Gardens and Ponds, which included the passage ... ....

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Bad Sex in Fiction awards are cancelled for 2020: ‘The public has already subjected to ...

The Independent 08 Dec 2020

The Bad Sex in Fiction award has been cancelled for 2020 after the judges declared that “too many bad things” had already happened this year ... Read more. Bad Sex in Fiction ... SIGN UP ... Didier Decoin for The Office of Gardens and Ponds, which compared a penis to “a small monkey that was curling up its paws” and John Harvey for Pax, which included the line.

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Maroc: Didier Decoin succ�de � Bernard Pivot � la t�te de l'acad�mie Goncourt

All Africa 24 Jan 2020

Le romancier et sc�nariste fran�ais Didier Decoin a �t� choisi, lundi, pour succ�der � Bernard Pivot � la t�te de l'acad�mie Goncourt, a annonc� cette institution ....

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Why are men so good at writing badly about sex?

Canada Dot Com 09 Dec 2019

It was a joint win for Didier Decoin and John Harvey (a teasing reference to the Booker Prize judges’ inability to pick a single winner), who had equally offended in terms of penning “the year’s most outstandingly awful scene of sexual description in an otherwise good novel.” ... The statistics were on my side ... Chris Knight.

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All deserve prizes? That’s no truer in art (including the Booker and Turner prizes) than in life

The Observer 08 Dec 2019

Apparently it’s now terribly unfashionable to be a winner. At last week’s Turner prize, the nominees got together and declared that none of them wanted to win ... The £40,000 prize money was split equally between them ... The Bad Sex in Fiction award was also shared between Didier Decoin and John Harvey because “there was no separating the winners” ... .

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All deserve prizes? That’s no truer in art (including the Booker and Turner prizes) than ...

The Guardian 07 Dec 2019

At last week’s Turner prize, the nominees got together and declared that none of them wanted to win ... The Bad Sex in Fiction award was also shared between Didier Decoin and John Harvey because “there was no separating the winners”.

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Turner Prize 2019: Are award winners and losers going out of fashion?

BBC News 04 Dec 2019

Until this year, the closest the Turner Prize had come to a split award was when the 2016 winner, sculptor Helen Marten, decided to share her prize money (if not the prize itself) with her fellow nominees ... Art doesn't thrive like that and I don't think people do either ... Didier Decoin and John Harvey shared the dubious honour ... "We tried again ... .

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Gruesome twosome: Bad Sex award won by John Harvey and Didier Decoin

The Irish Times 03 Dec 2019

the Prix Goncourt winner Didier Decoin and the British novelist John Harvey ... Decoin, a French author who received the Prix Goncourt in 1977 for his novel John l’Enfer, won for passages in his novel The Office of Gardens and Ponds, a fable set in Japan 1,000 years ago. It includes descriptions such as ... “She was burning hot and the heat was in him ... “One.

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The Bad Sex in Fiction Award has been announced, and the sex scenes are incredibly cringeworthy

Metro UK 03 Dec 2019

Didier Decoin and John Harvey tied this year (Picture. Getty – Emmanuel College). Previous winners of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award have included A.A. Gill, Giles Coren, Norman Mailer, and Morrissey ... Didier Decoin was one of those winners, his book The Office of Gardens and Pond, which includes the howler. ... She was burning hot and the heat was in him ... .

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Bad sex award twosome: prize goes to Didier Decoin and John Harvey

The Guardian 02 Dec 2019

Prix Goncourt winner Didier Decoin and British novelist John Harvey. Related. ‘Mouthful by mouthful’.

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Two writers presented with Bad Sex in Fiction Award

Belfast Telegraph 02 Dec 2019

French author Didier Decoin and John Harvey, a life fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, have both been announced as winners of the tongue-in-cheek prize. The judges were swayed by steamy passages in Decoin’s book The Office Of ...