Carcanet is delighted to announce that the Lebanese-French poet Vénus Khoury-Ghata has been awarded the Prix Goncourt de Poésie. This prestigious accolade from the Académie Goncourt recognises excellence throughout the poet's entire body of work. Khoury-Ghata is the author of sixteen collections of poems, and already has a string of prizes to her name: she received the Prix Mallarme in 1987 for Monologue du mort, and the Grand Prix de la Societe des Gens de Lettres for Fables pour un people d'argile in 1992, and she was named a Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur in 2000.


Vénus Khoury-Ghata's Alphabets of Sand (trans. Marilyn Hacker), pictured, is published by Carcanet. Click here to take advantage of the January promotion and purchase a copy.