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Paris Short Story Contest announces winner of the Editorial Committee Prize

 

The

PARIS SHORT STORY CONTEST 

is delighted to announce the winner 

of the 

Editorial Committee Prize 

_______

 "DESOLEE MONSIEUR" 

by 

Julia Mary Lichtblau

________


Stories Nominated for the prize were:


 

MY SUNDAY WITH GOD by Bob Levy

I THINK THEREFORE I AM by Haminudhin Mohd Derus 

TANGO by Julia Lichtblau

THE CONVERSATION by Virginia Gilbert

DESOLEE MONSIEUR by Julia Lichtblau

A VOIR by Nina Atkinson

SPARE LOVER by Marie Houzelle

GETTING THERE by Cathy Altman Nocquet

TRACES by Christopher Clark

LOVE THY FRENCH NEIGHBORS by Angie Ho Guyoton

THE KINE AND SARKOZY by Martin Raim

A PINCH OF TARRAGON by Lisa Burkitt

WOMAN, BLOSSOMING by Susanne Kamata

Congratulations! 

 

Many thanks to our Editorial Committee for all their work! 

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The winners of the Paris Short Story Contest will be announced next week.

To consult SHORTLIST

 

French history professors tested on wrong text, but Luc Chatel maintains exam

Candidates for the agrégation d'histoire were given an "authentic journal" from 1415 that was actually compiled in 1964.

L'accident nucléaire de Fukushima : leçons urgentes pour la France

Les experts nucléaires ont construit des centrales dans une zone à tsunami malgré les avertissements gravés sur des pierres géantes centenaires tout au long de la côte (NYT)

L'accident nucléaire de Fukushima nous apporte des leçons urgentes :

 

1) Ne pas risquer quelque chose qu'on ne peut pas perdre...

Fukushima one year later. Have any lessons been learned by French nuclear industry?

Tsunami warnings, written in stones centuries old in Japan 

As bad news and radiation continue to leak from Japan's stricken nuclear reactors and France's European neighbors reject nuclear technology, Sarkozy's government struggles to pretend that nothing's changed.

And yet, the Fukushima tragedy offers five major lessons for us all. (en français)

1) Do not risk something you cannot afford to lose.

Paris Writers News May 2011 Update !

This month, news from The Paris Short Story Contest, Cara Black, James Shapiro, Mary Ellen Gallager, Kai Maristed, Tatiana de Rosnay, David Barnes, Joy Anna Becvarik, Bob Levy, Former US Ambassador Craig Stapleton, Edith Sorel, Mademoiselle London, Paul Harding, Amy Hollowell, Pansy Maurer-Alvarez, Robert Hershon, Jack Hirschman, Gary Lee Kraut, Paul Murray, Katherine Mosby, Jennifer K Dick, Greg Santos and George Vance

Can I say it involves a bearded dialysis patient? Jon Stewart jokes about events in Abbottabad

Attention: This video is not suitable for conspiracy theory nuts.

The Daily Show - Big Deady
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The Daily Show's Jon Stewart on the good news for "human people".

"I suppose I should be expressing ambivalence about the killing of another human being, but...nope..."

- Jon Stewart

"Turns out the son of a bitch was living in the SUBURBS ! " - Aasif Mandvi

"Abbottabad has a golf course!"