David Thomas, winner of the Orange Book Award 2010 - the second edition of the literature prize voted for by internet users
Paris, June 15, 2011The 2010 Orange Book Award community has chosen David Thomas for his novel Un silence de clairière
Yesterday night, Christine Albanel, Executive Vice President, Orange group, and Erik Orsenna, Member of the Académie Française and President of the Orange Book Award’s jury, announced the results of the Internet votes (voting closed on 10 June) during a ceremony held in Paris.
Following several weeks of discussions and sharing views on their favorite books on the orange.fr/prixorangedulivre site, the internet community has just chosen the third Orange Book Award winner from a selection of six novels taken from an initial shortlist of 35 books published between January 1 and April 30, 2011. David Thomas succeeds Fabrice Humbert (L’Origine de la violence - Le Passage) and Jacques Gélat (Le traducteur amoureux – Editions Corti) who respectively won the prize for their novels in 2009 and 2010.
the 2011 Orange Book Award goes to:
David Thomas
Un silence de clairière (Albin Michel)
The other finalists were:
Alfred Alexandre, Les villes assassines (Les éditions écritures) Jean-Marie Chevrier, Une lointaine Arcadie (Albin Michel) Jérôme Garcin, Olivier (Gallimard) Gaëlle Josse, Les heures silencieuses (Editions Autrement) Laurent Mauvignier, Ce que j’appelle oubli (Les éditions de Minuit)
With a 15,000 Euro prize, the Orange Book Award rewards a work of fiction written in French and published in France between January 1 and April 30, 2011. It is the first literature prize to involve Internet users throughout the whole process - from the early stages, where they comment on their favourite books, up to the final vote in which they alone have the final say. This year, the 6 finalist books will be produced in a digital audio format for the visually impaired by the Orange Foundation.
The Orange Book Community allows Internet users to exchange ideas and talk about their favourite books throughout the year – uniting over 15 000 book lovers.
Check out the Orange Book Community’s books, comments and interviews on: www.orange.fr/prixorangedulivre
about David Thomas
David Thomas is a French author born in 1966 in Boulogne-Billancourt.
In 2007/2008, Tais-toi et parle-moi was produced at the Théâtre de la Manufacture des Abbesses, where it enjoyed a six-month run. His novel La patience des buffles sous la pluie was published by Editions Bernard Pascuito with a preface by Jean-Paul Dubois in 2009. La patience des buffles was adapted for the theatre by Julien Sibre and performed at the Manufacture des Abbesses in 2010.
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