Bookseller grant
Selection criteria
Must be 30 years of age or younger and present an original concept for marketing books.
2009
Jean Pichinoty is not alone in his bookshop, La soupe de l’Espace (Space Soup – ‘Soup’ to nourish the body and ‘Space’ to nourish dreams); his wife is there with him. Just a few months back, the pair knew nothing about bookshops...
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2008
A smile lights up the face of Sandrine Gouzère. That's unusual for a bookseller. Two years since it was set up, Le Monde d'Arthur is about to expand. The economic situation is difficult but Sandrine is as committed as ever...
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2008
Manon Godeau grew up surrounded by books. The granddaughter and daughter of primary school teachers, at home her family would pick up a book like other families switch on the TV...SPECIAL AWARD
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2007
Is Maud Prigent first and foremost a bookseller or Guyanese? Now that she’s weaving her magic in Kourou, the answer no longer matters..
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2006
As a young child, even before she could read, Carole Ohana always loved books as objects. When she turned eight, she asked for a dictionary, “the biggest book I knew about," she recalls. Unhappy with her literature studies, she left to...
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2005
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While watching Goldorak on TV, Mathieu Ducros found himself mesmerized by the world of manga and japanimation, to such an extent that he and his wife Virginie, a former art director...
2005
At around the age of 12, Rosa Aoudia Tandjaoui opened the trunk in which her father had stored all his books, including My Childhood by Russian author Maxim Gorky. “I wasn’t just reading, I was the characters, I was living them,” she says...
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2004
Cécile Black now lives in Denmark, though with her appetite for adventure she might just as easily have ended up in Georgia, Germany or Lebanon. However, a French-speaking, Francophile Dane captured her heart in Denmark...
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2003
Claire Lesobre has always aspired to manage her own time and work. This dream of independence led her to open a bookshop in Creil...
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2002
With a degree in physics and chemistry safely in his pocket, Marc Sautereau decided to enter the world of work and joined Unic Technologies, one of the leading players in industrial reprographics...
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