In its more than one hundred years, only twelve women have received the lauro most important of the French letters; the writer of the franco-moroccan, was honored by the Chanson douce, a novel inspired by the murder of two small children at the hands of her nanny.
The writer of the franco-moroccan Leïla Slimani won today the prestigious prix Goncourt for his second book, Chanson douce, a thriller in which the murder of two small children at the hands of her nanny.
The book, published by Gallimard, describes “our times” through the main couple and the caregiver of the children, “with its conception of love and of education, of the relationships of domination and economic, of the prejudices of class or cultural,” said the editorial.
The author said that he had received as a surprise this recognition, as it had done to the previous idea of that they were not going to win to not be a disappointment.
His book, he added Slimani, is a sort of tribute to your nanny in Morocco, where he gave account of the “strange place” that occupy those women in the houses in which they work and of the hierarchical relationships that are established in the same.
With this award, Slimani, of 35 years, it happens in the winners of this award -the most prestigious of French letters – Mathias Enard, who won last year for his work Compass.
The Goncourt, worth a symbolic 10 euros prize money, has just awarded the prize, in its one hundred plus years of history -was delivered for the first time in 1903, the other eleven women in addition to Slimani, among them Simone de Beauvoir (1954), Marguerite Duras (1984), and Lydie Salvayre (2014).
The specialized press considered that Slimani was the favorite. The other three finalists at the awards were Catherine Cusset, Régis Jauffret and Gaël Faye.
The Academy Goncourt, chaired by Bernard Pivot, recognizes that despite the discrete economic reward, “it is evident that the book crowned with this award is guaranteed a shot very important”, which tends to elevate its authors to the bestseller list. However, Chanson Douce was already positioning itself as record sales in France before the award.
With his victory, the writer joins a literary Olympus in 1919 honored to Marcel Proust for the second volume of In search of lost time, in 1978, to Patrick Modiano (Nobel prize for Literature, 2014) by Street of the dark shops , or Hard The mistress.
Slimani was also a finalist for the Renaudot, an award of less brightness, which is delivered on the same day in the same restaurant that the Goncourt, and that was to Yasmina Reza, actress, novelist and playwright, his work Babylone.
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