Cédric Sapin-Defour elected author of the year 2024. The novelist received the prize for best author 2024 during the Edition Trophies evening.
His Odor After the Rain is a touching tribute to his dog Ubac, who died in 2017. The rights to the work have been sold in more than one ten languages, while projects for adaptation into comics and cinema are discussed. “ Moments of contemplation are moments of great respite for the world, because it is in these moments that reality is no longer afraid of reaching us,” he writes.