french writer Brigitte Giraud This Thursday she won the Goncourt prize, the most important prize in French literature, for her novel. ‘Vivre vite’ (Live fast). Giraud is the 13th woman to win the award, given annually since 1903. Published in France by Flammarion publishing house, ‘Vivre vite’ describes an investigation aimed at unraveling all the details of the fatal traffic accident. twenty years ago by his partner.
The announcement was made at the central Paris restaurant Drouant, where, as is customary, the jury met to vote and hand out the prize. “The Goncourt prize was awarded to Brigitte Giraud in the 14th round,” said Paule Constant, writer and member of Goncourt Academy, in the middle of a meeting. big media expectation.
The French woman was, in fact, tied with the Italian-Swiss woman by five votes to five. Giuliano da Empoli and his work ‘The Wizard of the Kremlin’, seemed to have started as the favourites, but the quality vote of the Academy president (Didier Decoin) turned the balance on Giraud.
“Fabulous,” the author told the press when he went to the Drouant restaurant, as usual, to share lunch with the Goncourt jury. Giraud also expressed that he was thinking of his late partner Claude when he heard the news and how “love” led him to this victory.
In addition to his novel about Da Empoli and the Kremlin intrigues, The list of four finalists for this year is rounded off with the Haitian Makenzy Orcel and her ‘Une somme humaine’ and ‘Les presque soeurs’ by French Cloé Korman.
Giraud replaces Senegalese Mohamed Mbougar Sarr received the Goncourt Prize last year for her novel “La plus secrète mémoire des hommes” and is one of the few women to receive the most important award in French literature for more than a century. The very small presence of women at Goncourt Academy, even among jurors, is something that has earned the institution significant criticism.
Goncourt was created in his will by the 19th century French writer Edmond de Goncourt.
Among the winners Some big names of 20th century French lettersFrom Marcel Proust to Pierre Lemaître, passing by Aamin Maalouf, Marguerite Duras, Simone de Beauvoir and Roman Gary.
Guaranteeing its winners million-dollar spins and translations into dozens of languages, Goncourt has only a symbolic financial reward as the winner receives a check worth ten euros.
Source: Informacion
