Menassa was born in Beirut in 1939 and held a postgraduate diploma in
French literature. She began her career as a broadcast journalist in 1959.
The author of several award-winning French-language biographies, Evelyne Bloch-Dano now turns her talents to an overview and analysis of the roles of the garden in
French literature. This charmingly detailed account includes a history of types and styles of gardens, both literary and literal, before examining the various places gardens appear in French literary history, "from Proust to Duras."
However, in 1927, a young Shanghai writer was not satisfied with staying in "the Paris of the East"; going to Paris became his dream during his time as a student fascinated by
French literature at Aurore University, located in Shanghai's French Concession.
The categories include poetry, scholarly, fiction, non-fiction, and young adult literature,
French literature, as well as excellence in publishing
Constantinople and the West in medieval
French literature; renewal and utopia.
John Taylor has been writing about, and translating,
French literature for many years.
The Cambridge History of
French Literature. William Burgwinkle, Nicholas Hammond, and Emma Wilson.