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XCiTés
XCiTés: the Flamingo Book of New French Writing is an anthology edited by Georgia de Chamberet of French writing in translation which "aims to smash the stereotypes" by a new generation of writers who were unpublished in English at the time of publication (2000). The book includes stories by Frédéric Beigbeder, Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Tonino Benacquista, Marie Desplechin, Ilan Duran Cohen, Agnès Desarthe, Virginie Despentes, Guillaume Dustan, Eric Faye, Michel Houellebecq, Mathieu Kassovitz, Mathieu Lindon, Mounsi, Lorette Nobécourt,
Fifty Years of Writing About Black Britain". "The Bookseller" referred to the anthology as being "ground-breaking, tracking how black men and women have made Britain their own".
XCiTés: the Flamingo Book of New French Writing, edited by Chamberet, features writing by 15 writers under 40 who were unknown in English when the book was published in 2000 — Frédéric Beigbeder, Tonino Benacquista, Virginie Despentes, Michel Houellebecq, Abdourahman Waberi among them.
Chamberet has written for "" and "Words Without