It is a strange Goncourt, that we lived! ”
said, via Zoom, Didier Decoin, president of the Goncourt academy, a few minutes after announcing that the 2020 winner was Hervé Le Tellier for his novel
L'Anomalie
(Gallimard), elected by eight votes out of ten.
"We had imagined a papal version on the floor of Drouant with a declaration ubi et orbi but Drouant, it was impossible",
added the one who fought to defend the booksellers after the closure of their business, imposed by the government on October 29.
No bookstores, no price, then said in substance the president of Goncourt, overwhelmed by this aberration.
By almost unanimously crowning Hervé Le Tellier, 63, the Goncourt academics have chosen to think outside the box, to open their prize as they had done in 2013 by crowning
Goodbye up there,
by Pierre Lemaitre, until then known mainly to thrill-seekers.
Like Lemaitre, Le Tellier is no beginner.
Since 1991, this former
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