The health crisis will not have got the better of all traditions.
If the Goncourt academy had to give up its usual lunch at Drouant, to find itself behind a screen by videoconference, it did not derogate from the announcement of its spring literary prizes.
For six years now, it has been bringing together the Goncourt award for the first novel, poetry and short story in May, alongside its famous award in November.
Small change all the same, the name of the winner of the Goncourt prize for the biography Edmonde Charles-Roux, originally announced in June, was also unveiled.
A tongue removed
The jury, chaired by Didier Decoin, announced in a press release the names of its winners on Tuesday, May 4.
It is therefore Emilienne Malfatto who wins the Goncourt of the first novel with
Que sur toi laments the Tiger
.
She takes over from Maylis Besserie, distinguished last year.
Her book is set in rural Iraq today and features a young girl in a relationship
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