Novelist Elisa Shua Dusapin wins the Wepler Prize for “Le Vieil Incendie” – Libération

2023-11-13 12:00:26

The 31-year-old Franco-Swiss author won an award this Monday, November 13, for her work recounting the tête-à-tête between two sisters, one of whom is aphasic, when emptying a family home which is about to be sold.

For her fourth novel, Elisa Shua Dusapin wins the prize. The Wepler Prize, a literary prize which rewards emerging writers, was awarded this Monday, November 13 to the Franco-Swiss novelist, for her work Le Vieil Incendie. This novel published in August by a Swiss publisher, Zoe, recounts the tête-à-tête between two sisters, one of whom is aphasic, at the time of emptying a family house which is about to be sold. This is the fourth novel by this 31-year-old author, revealed in 2016 by Winter in Sokcho.

The Wepler prize, named after the Parisian brasserie where it is awarded, is supported by the La Poste Foundation. He is endowed with 10,000 euros. His “special mention”, endowed with 3,000 euros, was awarded to Arthur Dreyfus for La Troisième Main (POL editions), an astonishing fiction about a young man who has an arm transplanted into his stomach.

Last year, the writer from Nice Anthony Passeron won the prize for Sleeping Children, published by Globe, in which he questions his family past. The special mention went to Lucie Rico for GPS published by POL. In this thriller-like novel, the author explored the horrors of geolocation in the story of a connected disappearance.