The Swedish Jonas Hassen Khemiri was rewarded in the category of foreign novels for “the paternal clause”.
Le Monde
The writer Christine Angot won the Medici Award, Tuesday, October 26, for his novel The trip in the East. In this book published by Flammarion, the 62-year-old novelist returns to incest that his father has made him undergo, a subject already treated in some of his previous novels.
In the category of foreign novels, the price was awarded to the Swedish Jonas Hassen Khemiri for the paternal clause (Pappaklausulen), in which the novelist questions the links that ensure the cohesion of a family with humor. Jakuta Alikavazovic has formerly won the Medici Award for as a sky in us (stock).
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