{"id":12483,"date":"2026-10-15T13:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=12483"},"modified":"2026-10-15T13:00:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T13:00:33","slug":"romanian-literature-lavinia-branistes-novel-camping-shortlisted-for-prix-medicis-etranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=12483","title":{"rendered":"Romanian literature: Lavinia Brani\u015fte\u2019s novel Camping shortlisted for Prix M\u00e9dicis \u00e9tranger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lavinia Brani\u0219te\u2019s novel <em>Camping<\/em> has been shortlisted for this year\u2019s M\u00e9dicis Prize\/ Prix M\u00e9dicis, one of France\u2019s top literary awards, in the Foreign Fiction category.<\/p>\n<p>The novel has been translated into French by Sylvain Audet-G\u0103inar and was published by \u00c9ditions des Syrtes.<\/p>\n<p>Other Romanian writers previously shortlisted for the prize include Norman Manea, who won the Prix M\u00e9dicis \u00e9tranger in 2006 for <em>Le Retour du hooligan\u00a0: une vie\/The Hooligan&#8217;s Return<\/em><em> and Mircea C\u0103rt\u0103rescu, who was shortlisted for <\/em> Solenoid <em>in 2019 and <\/em> Theodoros in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Lavinia Brani\u0219te was born in 1983 in Br\u0103ila. She studied foreign languages and literature in Cluj-Napoca and Bucharest. Her work includes the poetry volume <em>Pove\u0219ti cu mine<\/em><em> (2006), the short story volumes <\/em> Cinci minute pe zi <em>(2011) and <\/em> Escapada <em>(2014), the children\u2019s series <\/em> Rostogol<em>, and the novels <\/em> Interior zero<em> (2016), S<\/em> onia ridic\u0103 m\u00e2na<em> (2019), <\/em> M\u0103 g\u0103se\u015fti c\u00e2nd vrei<em> (2021), and <\/em> Camping (2025), among others.<\/p>\n<p>The nominated novel, <em>Camping<\/em>, follows Sofia, a Romanian woman who lives and works at a campsite in Spain, as she plans her return home as she approaches retirement.<\/p>\n<p>The awards will be handed out on November 2.<\/p>\n<p>The jury of the Prix M\u00e9dicis, chaired by playwright and novelist Pascale Roze, is composed of Marianne Alphant, Michel Braudeau, Marie Darrieussecq, Dominique Fernandez, Anne F. Garr\u00e9ta, Patrick Grainville, Andre\u00ef Makine, and Alain Veinstein. At the beginning of November, they vote by secret ballot for their chosen candidate until one of them obtains a majority. In the event of a tie, the president&#8217;s vote counts double from the seventh round onward.<\/p>\n<p>The Prix M\u00e9dicis was founded in 1958 by Gala Barbisan and Jean-Pierre Giraudoux as a nod to \u201caudacious and innovative literary works\u201d by authors whose &#8220;fame does not yet match their talent.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lavinia Brani\u0219te\u2019s novel Camping has been shortlisted for this year\u2019s M\u00e9dicis Prize\/ Prix M\u00e9dicis, one of France\u2019s top literary awards, in the Foreign Fiction category. The novel has been translated into French by Sylvain Audet-G\u0103inar and was published by \u00c9ditions des Syrtes. Other Romanian writers previously shortlisted for the prize include Norman Manea, who won [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}