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01/11/2006
Foreign writer take French literary prizes
The winner of the 2006 Femina Prix, a French literary prize, is the Canadian-born writer Nancy Huston, for her family saga Lignes de faille, or Fault Lines.
Huston has lived in Paris since the 1970s and writes in both English and French.
She is the second winner with north American roots to win a major French literary prize in a week.
American author Jonathan Littell won the top literary prize of the Acad mie Fran aise for his first book, a 900-page fictional memoir of a murderous Nazi SS colonel called Les Bienveillantes (The Kindly Ones).
Littell is also favourite for the Prix Goncourt, the winner of which will be announced next week.
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