“It leaves me speechless (…). I do not know if you have already killed a chicken, but it’s an experience,” said the winner when the award for this “autobiographical novel, a little “.
Le Monde with AFP
Who of the egg or the chicken has happened first? Failing to solve this philosophical paradox, the December price jury chose, Friday, October 29, to reward the metaphysical henhouse, Xavier Galmiche’s novel published in Editions Le Pommier.
Kenaded as a specialist university professor of Czech literature and Central European cultures, Mr. Galmiche, 58, reports the story of a poultry student in the Paris region. “It leaves me speechless (…). I do not know if you have already killed a chicken, but it’s an experience,” said the winner at the award, at the Lutetia Hotel in Paris, for This “autobiographical novel, a little”.
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He got six voices in the second round, the poet and novelist Laura Vazquez had collected two for the perpetual week (Basement Editions).
Initially created, as his name indicated, to reward an end-of-year book an unfairly forgotten book of the Grands Grands of October and November, this price is awarded this year before Goncourt. In particular, it is coveted for its important endowment, of 15,000 euros, with the support of the Foundation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent.