2023-11-06 14:53:55
Favorite, Neige Sinno won, Monday November 6, the Femina 2023 prize for sad tiger (POL editions), which evokes the rapes perpetrated in his childhood by his stepfather. This story received nine votes out of twelve in the first round. The 46-year-old author is also a finalist for the 2023 Goncourt Prize, which will be awarded on Tuesday. sad tiger, who was awarded the literary prize The world 2023, has been among the best sellers since its release.
“It reminds me of my thesis defense where there were also only women among the professors. (…) It’s a source of pride, moreover, to be encouraged.” she said of the all-female jury. “The subject that my book deals with is not a subject for women, nor for men, nor for others,” she spoke after the prize was announced at the Carnavalet museum in Paris. She said she was happy with the consecration of “three years of work”. “For me, a book is feminine. And receiving this prize is the greatest reward for me. »
Neige Sinno was competing with Jean-Baptiste Andrea (Watch over her) − also in the running for Goncourt −, Pierric Bailly (Lightning), Guy Boley (To my and only sister) and Agnès Mathieu-Daudé (Sand merchants). For the Goncourt prize, sad tiger is also in competition with Eric Reinhardt (Sarah, Susanne and the writer) et Gaspard Koenig (Humus).
The Femina Prize for Foreign Novels was awarded to the American Louise Erdrich, 69, for Sentence, which tells the story of a Native American bookseller confronted with the ghosts of the past and the racism of the present. Present at the award ceremony, the author recalled that, like the heroine of the novel, she ran a bookstore in Minneapolis, in the north of the United States, dedicated to indigenous literature. “It’s also a haunted place.”, she emphasized. The American novelist obtained seven votes out of twelve in the first round.
Finally, the jury awarded its essay prize, by nine votes in the first round, to Hugo Micheron, 35, a specialist in jihadism, for Anger and forgetting (Gallimard). The essay examines the radical and violent Islamist movements in Europe after the collapse of the Islamic State organization in Syria.
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