The book tells the welcome of a disabled child in a siblings. He “leaves a luminous trace that opens the doors of tolerance,” said the president of the jury.
Le Monde with AFP
“His accuracy, his sweetness, his poetry” have earned the Roman adapting, from Clara Dupont-Monod, to receive the Goncourt High school Award, Thursday, November 25. This novel, which tells the arrival of a handicapped child in a sibling, “leaves a bright trace that opens the doors of the tolerance to the disability,” said the president of the jury, Nour Benkhache, 17, a second pupil at the European School of Brussels-IV.
Posted at Stock, The text has already been spent by the Femina Award and the price of Landerneau readers. He won his third title from the first ballot with 8 votes out of 13, among the five finalist novels, clarified the young jurors of the 34 e publishing the coarganized price by the Ministry of the Ministry. National Education and the FNAC and announced in Rennes. Contacted by the France-Presse Agency (AFP), its 48-year-old – more publisher and journalist – said “very moved”. It must receive the price, Thursday evening, at the Ministry of National Education.
The jurors did not have trouble deciding. “There is some sweetness, a certain sensitivity and a theme that sits so much in society: the disability, it is a subject that we do not speak enough, commented Nour Benkhache. It has been found that it was Nicely done, a very nice book, bright, not at all dark, which gave a little hope to the future. “
” A theme often you “
According to Benjamin Lefebres, 15, a jury member and pupil at Pierre-Bourdieu High School in Toulouse, Clara Dupont-Monod’s novel “has allowed to wear high a theme often you. And full of beautiful messages that are delivered within And are not explored enough. “On the issue of disability? The company does not do “not enough”, there are “too many pages of folders to fill”, according to the young Toulouse. “This novel is very interesting, he touched us all and deserved to be elected,” said Rachel Bulka, 16, pupils at Lycée Massena in Lille and a member of the jury, interviewed by AFP. The book makes it possible to understand “how this happens with the administration”, with also “the different points of view of a siblings”.
“The writing is very pure and the descriptions are beautiful,” said the young Lille, “very happy” to have been embarked in this literary adventure. “It allowed me to do many meetings with other high school students in France.” Every year, since the creation of the Goncourt of High school students in 1988, about two thousand high school students from all over France participate in the choice of the winner who closed the season. Literary prices.
Initially, the fourteen novels selected for the Goncourt Prize, great brother of the Goncourt of high school students, were in the running. Five figured in the final selection: those of Clara Dupont-Monod, Anne Bererest (The Postcard, Grasset), Patrice Franceschi (if only one, Grasset), Lilia Hassaine (Amer Sun, Gallimard) and Christine Angot (the trip in the east, Flammarion). In 2020, the Goncourt prize of high school students had been awarded to the Cameroonian writer Djaini Amadou Amal for his novel the impatient (editions Emmanuelle Collas). The deliberations were held in distancy, because of the pandemic.