It is the confirmation of a work for Vincent Mondiot!
Already spotted by the Friday award in 2018, the jury chose this year to crown him for his book
The Last of the Wankers
(Actes Sud).
The author who succeeds Flore Vesco faced nine other authors.
Two special mentions were given to Eric Pessan, for his novel
Tenir Upright in the Night
(École des loisirs) and Cathy Ytak, for his story
Without Armor
(Talents haut)
The last of the wankers
.
The title of the novel already sets the tone, funny, of the story of Vincent Mondiot.
Minh Tuan, Chloé and Gaspard are three teenagers who are more interested in their manga, their video games and their joints than in their school notebooks.
Baccalaureat?
They do not care.
In their head, it's no future.
Until the day when a certain Tina, a young refugee, first in the class shows them that the future can be combined with the present ...
Like its neighbors of Goncourt and Renaudot, the Friday prize jury had to give up meeting given the health measures and thus revealed the name of its winner via a press release.
"In an inventive form, and a precise and insolent writing, the novel never ceases to surprise
", we can read.
“This is the story of a very strong friendship that Vincent Mondiot tells us.
The dialogues fuse, like the words of a teenager that the author reproduces with a cheerful open-heartedness
,
”
confides our colleague from Figaro Françoise Dargent, juror of the Friday prize.
“The anti-heroes, treated with rare accuracy both in their characters and in their language, reveal themselves throughout a story that one does not let go before having finished it. The refusals and disenchantments of adolescence are treated without complacency, with a humor that cannot be denied
,
”
the statement continues.
This year, 38 publishing houses proposed a title of their choice to the Friday Prize jury.
It was composed of Michel Abescat (Télérama), Raphaële Botte (Mon Quotidien; Lire), Philippe-Jean Catinchi (Le Monde), Françoise Dargent (Le Figaro), Marie Desplechin (author), Sophie Van der Linden (author and literary critic ), and Nathalie Riché (literary critic, Allonz'enfants).
The name of this literary award is a tribute to the hero of Michel Tournier.
The Friday prize rewards a novel intended for those over 13, published during the year and written by a French-speaking author.
The prize is endowed with an amount of 2,000 euros thanks to the support of the La Poste Corporate Foundation.
