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Elon Musk, l’itinéraire d’un audacieux entrepreneur

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt publiera INSANE MODE: Inside Tesla and Elon Musk’s Mission to Save the World de Hamish McKenzie, une enquête journalistique sur le fondateur de Tesla Motors, surnommé le « nouveau Steve Jobs ». Né en 1971 et d’origine sud-africaine, Elon Musk est en effet considéré aujourd’hui comme l’un des chefs d’entreprise les plus influents. Ses sociétés Tesla Motors (automobile et énergie) et Space X (aérospatial) sont au centre des plus importants progrès technologiques des dernières années.

An insider’s account of how Elon Musk is shaping the story of our future

INSANE MODE
Inside Tesla and Elon Musk’s Mission to Save the World
by Hamish McKenzie
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016 (Manuscript due March 2016)
Agent: James Levine – Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency

With every audacious announcement, interest in Elon Musk and Tesla increases. Just as there was huge demand for another book about Steve Jobs after Walter Isaacson’s bestselling biography, so there will be demand for Insane Mode, even in the wake of Ashlee Vance’s recent bestseller and Musk’s own future-oriented book. Elon Musk, like Thomas Edison before him, has a keen understanding that his success will depend not just on his genius as an inventor, but also on his ability to form a commanding narrative: to craft, control, and compel people to believe in the story of a world that does not yet exist.

Hamish McKenzie is an international journalist and former lead writer for Tesla Motors. In recent years, he was also a reporter for the tech blog PandoDaily, where he covered tech media, politics, and international startups, and he is the author of “Beta China: The Dawn of an Innovation Generation”. Formerly, he was a freelancer writing features for the Listener, New Zealand’s leading current affairs and arts magazine, and the South China Morning Post, Hong Kong’s leading English-language newspaper. His work has also appeared in a wide range of publications in the UK, the US, Australia, and Canada, including the Guardian, Globe and Mail, and Toronto Star, and helped launch Time Out Hong Kong. He has reported from Asia, Australasia, North America, and Europe, and he has interviewed many leading figures from the worlds of tech, academia, and entertainment, including Sting, John Cleese, Robert Smith, Bret McKenzie, Billy Corgan, Wayne Coyne, Ndaba Mandela, and Cory Booker.

HUMANS OF NEW YORK: STORIES de Brandon Stanton

Filled with longer, more in-depth stories, along with the gorgeous photos and insights that made HUMANS OF NEW YORK such a massive success

HUMANS OF NEW YORK: STORIES
by Brandon Stanton
St. Martin’s Press, October 2015
Agent: Brian DeFiore

OVER 650,000 COPIES SOLD OF HUMANS OF NEW YORK

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

35 WEEKS ON NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST

OVER FIFTEEN MILLION FOLLOWERS ON FACEBOOK/INSTAGRAM/TUMBLR AROUND THE WORLD

Brandon came to New York four years ago, at age 26, an amateur street photographer with the idea of creating what he calls “a visual census” of the five boroughs. What he has created has now become, in the words of The New York Times: « …an instant publishing phenomenon. » HONY has been featured in The Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, he has appeared on Nightline, CBS This Morning, Fox and Friends, has been a « person of the week » on the ABC Nightly News and a Time Magazine « 30 under 30 » who have changed the world.
The highly anticipated new book HUMANS OF NEW YORK: STORIES expands on the richness and beauty of the first book, and delves deeper, as the website now does, turning the book more into a storytelling experience than a purely photographic one. With an almost 20% larger page count, more photos, more stories, much bigger reach and following and prestige for the project, this is destined to be one of the biggest bestsellers of the year.

Brandon Stanton studied at the University of Georgia and worked as a bond trader in Chicago before starting “Humans of New York”—a photography and storytelling blog—in the Summer of 2010. He has appeared on Ellen, Good Morning America, Nightline, MSNBC, CNN, has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, Mashable, and dozens of other media venues. He has also been named a ‘person of the week’ on the ABC Evening News with Diane Sawyer, and a Time Magazine “30 Under 30 Who are Changing the World” and has photographed President Obama in the Oval Office. He is the author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller HUMANS OF NEW YORK and the New York Times bestselling children’s book LITTLE HUMANS.

Le 26e prix des Incos à NOS ETOILES CONTRAIRES !

Le Prix des Incorrutibles est le premier prix de littérature jeunesse décerné par des jeunes lecteurs. Cette année, pour sa 26^e édition, 362 279 enfants ont lu et voté pour leur livre préféré.

Et NOS ETOILES CONTRAIRES, le bestseller international de John Green publié en février 2013 par les éditions Nathan, a remporté le prix dans la catégorie lycée ! Une nouvelle satisfaction pour ce titre qui a déjà connu un grand succès aussi bien en librairie qu’au cinéma.

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L’Independent Foreign Fiction Prize décerné à ALLER TAGE ABEND de Jenny Erpenbeck

ALLER TAGE ABEND, publié au Royaume-Uni en novembre 2014 par New Directions sous le titre « The End Of Days », a donc remporté ce prix qui met à l’honneur le meilleur ouvrage de fiction traduit en langue anglaise (UK). Le roman de Jenny Erpenbeck a été choisi dans une short list d’exception, dans laquelle figuraient des auteurs tels que Erwin Mortier et Haruki Murakami !

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Boyd Tonkin, journaliste de The Independent et juré du prix, a déclaré :

“This is a novel to enjoy, to cherish, and to revisit many times. Into its brief span Jenny Erpenbeck packs a century of upheaval, always rooted in the chances and choices of one woman’s life. It is both written and translated with an almost uncanny beauty, which grows not out of historical abstractions but from the shocks and hopes of everyday life, and from our common quest for peace, home and love. Re-reading this jewel of a book, I came to feel as if both W. G. Sebald and Virginia Woolf would recognise a kindred spirit here.”

THE INFILTRATOR au cinéma en 2017

Lors du dernier Festival de Cannes, Broad Green Pictures a acheté les droits de distribution de THE INFILTRATOR. Réalisé par Brad Furman (« La Défense Lincoln »), THE INFILTRATOR a été tourné en janvier dernier à Londres, à Paris et en Floride, avec dans le rôle principal Bryan Cranston, l’acteur qui incarne Walter White dans « Breaking Bad ».

Ce film est tiré de l’autobiographie de Robert Mazur, ancien agent du FBI, qui infiltra le milieu des cartels colombiens. L’ouvrage est paru en 2009 chez Little Brown :

An incredible true story

THE INFILTRATOR
My Secret Life Inside the Dirty Banks Behind Pablo Escobar’s Medellin Cartel
by Robert Mazur
Little, Brown and Company, July 2009

Federal Agent Robert Mazur spent five years undercover as a money launderer to the international underworld, gaining access to the zenith of a criminal hierarchy safeguarded by a circle of dirty bankers and businessmen who quietly shape power across the globe. These men and women control multibillion-dollar drug-trafficking empires, running their organizations like public companies. Accountants, attorneys, and financial advisors, their roots run deep in their communities, and they are laundering billions of dollars a year, manipulating complex international finance systems to serve drug lords, corrupt politicians, tax cheats, and terrorists. In 1987, Mazur began infiltrating BCCI, bankers behind the Medellín cartel. He meticulously gathered evidence for years until, during a fake wedding, federal agents arrested over 40 high-ranking criminals, who were all found guilty and sent to prison. Never before told, this is the incredible, true story of how he did it.