The Independent Archive: Englishwoman Wins Prix Goncourt ; 30 September 1989 for 86 Years the Academie Goncourt Has Ignored English Writers - until Now. Robert Winder Interviews Joanna Richardson
IT WAS raining when Joanna Richardson travelled to Nancy to collect her Prix Goncourt for biography. God had arranged, as they say, un ciel britannique, a thoughtful provision on the day when the Prix Goncourt was given, for the first time in its 86-year history, to an English author. The winning book, Judith Gautier: a Biography, was published in Britain by Quartet in 1986 but has only this year been translated into French.
The book itself, the fruits of an exhaustive trawl for new material, enjoyed mixed reviews. Anita Brookner, in the Times Literary Supplement, thought that Joanna Richardson had done "full justice" to her subject. The reviewer in The Canberra Times …
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Article title: The Independent Archive: Englishwoman Wins Prix Goncourt ; 30 September 1989 for 86 Years the Academie Goncourt Has Ignored English Writers - until Now. Robert Winder Interviews Joanna Richardson.
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Newspaper title: The Independent (London, England).
Publication date: September 3, 1999.
Page number: 7.
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