Hervé Le Tellier won the Goncourt 2020 with his novel "L'Anomalie" and it could not have been better in an era troubled by the Covid, which deprived the jurors of their traditional announcement at the Drouant restaurant in Paris.
He obtained eight votes against two for “The Historiographer of the Kingdom” by Maël Renouard, one of the four finalists.
This award was awarded by videoconference, each juror having stayed at home.
No deliberations at the table, therefore, and no scrambling with journalists when the winner arrives.
And the Goncourt, quite a symbol, was therefore awarded 48 hours after the reopening of bookstores.
"The Anomaly", the eighth novel by its author, tells the consequences of an apparently inexplicable event, namely that a Paris-New York flight occurs twice, with the same passengers, a few months apart.
A story that brilliantly summons all genres, science fiction, noir novels, classic literary tales, interrogation reports ...
Didier Decoin, the president of the jury, also suggested that this novel should know another life in the form of a series or on the big screen.
“It's true that there is a real cinematographic dimension.
There is a narrative arch, as we say in the vocabulary of the series.
I wouldn't mind seeing this book embodied on the screen ”, admitted Hervé Le Tellier during the videoconference.
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