Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam has won the Medici Prize for “the thirteenth hour”, where it is a question of a feminist, queer and animalist community.
Le Monde
The Medici Prize of the French novel, penultimate of the Grand Prix Littéraires d’Automne, was awarded Tuesday November 8 to Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam for the thirteenth hour, published by Pol.
The other seven finalists were Diaty Diallo for two seconds of burning air (threshold), Virginie Despents for Cher Assard (Grasset), Claudie Hunzinger for a dog at my table (Grasset), Victor Jestin for the man who Dance (Flammarion), Olivia Rosenthal for a monkey at my window (vertical), Monica Sabolo for clandestine life (Gallimard) and Anne Serre for our dear old lady (Mercury de France).
The thirteenth hour tells the story of Farah, a teenager who lives in community in a feminist millennial, queer and animalist church, where we recite Nerval or Rimbaud.
After the Medici, the Interallié Prize will mark the end of the literary prize season on Wednesday. The Goncourt was allocated Thursday to Brigitte Giraud to live quickly (Flammarion) and the Femina Tuesday in Claudie Hunzinger for a dog at my table, also selected by the Medici jury.
In 2021, the Medici Prize had been awarded to Christine Angot for the East trip (Flammarion).