by Erik Orsenna · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253115618
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«Dernières nouvelles des oiseaux» is the novel by Erik Orsenna, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (150 pages, in French).
A senior official attends an awards ceremony at a school and, bored by the model students, conceives a simple and scandalous idea: sending researchers across Europe to find passionate and free children, curious and with their own talents, and reward them. The narrative combines the fantastic with reflection on education, creativity, and the value of those who explore outside the rules.
Number 3077 in the Le Livre de Poche collection; this edition was published on 4 April 2007. The work originally appeared in 2004.
Suitable for young and adult readers interested in contemporary French fiction and stories with a social and educational background.
Érik Orsenna is the pen-name of Érik Arnoult a French politician and novelist. After studying philosophy and political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, Orsenna specialized in economics at the London School of Economics. He was a close collaborator of François Mitterrand and held several government positions in the 1980s and 1990s. He is a member of the Conseil d'État, having been appointed in 1985. He was elected to the Académie Française on 28 May 1998. He won the 1990 International Nonino Prize in Italy. For Voyage au pays du coton he received the second prize of the Lettre Ulysses Award in 2006.
