Medici prize in 2021 for her novel “Le Voyage à l’Est”, she will succeed Patrick Rambaud and sit at the next meeting of the Goncourt Academy on April 4.
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The writer Christine Angot was elected, Tuesday, February 28, member of the Goncourt Academy, who gives the most prestigious French literature prize each year, announced the academy on Twitter .
Prix Medici in 2021 for his novel Le Voyage en l’Est, which deals with pain related to incest, subject of several of her novels, she will succeed Patrick Rambaud and sit at the next meeting of the Goncourt academy on April 4.
Sometimes eruptive personality, adored or hated for her media interventions, Christine Angot, 64, expresses most of her truth in her work, which she comments little but makes discover during public readings.
A work centered for the main part of an event told several times in his novels: incest and the grip that her father exerted on her. Among them, an impossible love, a week of vacation, incest and the trip to the East.
Patrick Rambaud becomes an honorary member
Her eruptive side is sometimes expressed in television interventions, like the one where she launched to François Fillon, presidential candidate in 2017: “You do not retreat to nothing! Your word is dishonest”. A clash that draws the attention of Laurent Ruquier, who entrusts him with the role of columnist in the program “On is not lying” on France 2.
For his part, Patrick Rambaud, who gives up his headquarters “because of his state of health”, becomes an honorary member – who no longer exercises the function but in keeping the title – of the Goncourt Academy. Prix Goncourt for Battle (Grasset) in 1997, Patrick Rambaud entered the Goncourt Academy in 2008, succeeding Daniel Boulanger.
Chaired by Didier Decoin since January 2020, the Goncourt Academy has ten jurors, including four women. In addition to Christine Angot, the writers are Camille Laurens (entry in 2020), Paule Constant (since 2013) and Françoise Chandernagor (since 1995).