“When it came time to send my manuscript, I felt a bit ridiculous to compete with authors of French mother tongue. I have an accent when I speak and I still make mistakes in agreement. This is also the first thing I said when I was called to tell me that I had won: Did you understand correctly that I am not of French mother tongue? "
It is true that a small accent from the cold betrays the origins of Katerina Autet.
Born of a Russian mother and a French father, researcher in particle physics, the winner of the second edition of the Grand Prix des Investigateurs Robert Laffont
-Le Figaro Magazine
lived all her childhood in Moscow, rocked by the language of Gorky and Chekhov.
“As a child, being an only child, I was often alone, the kind of little girl who comes home from school with the key around her neck.
And I read a lot.
Culturally, France was very important to me, even though at the time I didn't speak the language.
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