Congratulations to all the Hemingway Grant winners for 2016, announced at the Cultural Services for the French Consulate’s website! Charif Majdalani’s Moving the Palace (originally titled Caravansérail), forthcoming next April from New Vessel Books, is in incredible company:
The Hemingway Grant program, launched in the 1990s, has supported a steady number of publications in the U.S. For 2016, 13 titles and one review were selected. The beneficiaries form a wide collection of remarkable varied pieces of French literature, mainly contemporary works, remarkable essays, and charming children book.