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Paris – The writer Hervé Le Tillier won the Goncourt Prize, the best French literary prize, on Monday for his novel “Lanomaly” (Anomaly) published by Gallimard.
Le Tillier, 63, won eight votes to two for Mayel Renoir’s novel “L’Estoreograph de Roium” (Historian of the Kingdom), while the award ceremony was held for the first time due to the Covid- pandemic. 19.
“We never expected to win an award like Goncourt,” the winning novelist said in a video message with his book editor Antoine Ghalmear. We do not write with the aim of achieving it at the beginning, nor do we imagine winning it ”.
The Goncourt Prize for fiction has been the most important in France for this genre for more than a century.
“Lanomalía”, the eighth novel by Herve Le Tillier, revolves around the consequences of a strange event, which are the two flights between Paris and New York that happened to carry the same passengers with a time difference of no more than a few months, and as a result the lives of the passengers and the face of the whole world change.
The novel was written in script format for a television series and masterfully combines different genres, including crime novel and classic literary storytelling.
“The idea is that since Trump is here and is the cause of the destruction of the world, the vision of the book is to present another version of the world in which Biden is president,” Le Tillier said of his literary work.
Winning writer Herve Le Tillier is a former novelist, playwright, and journalist who studied mathematics and later moved on to the world of writing and literature. He joined the famous “Olympo” movement, which was founded in the 1960s and included poets and great novelists, including Raymond Keanu and George Perek, who wrote their famous novel “The Disappearance” in the context of their membership in it. movement, which is still going strong.
The French writer of Moroccan origin, Tahar Ben Jelloun, member of the Goncourt Academy, commented in a video statement: “This book will please many in the world because we are living in a phase that does not please the heart as everyone knows. . This book will delight many. Thank you for writing it. “
Le Tillier reached the final of the award with three other writers: Maille Renoir for the house “Gracie”, and the Cameroonian Djaili Amadou Amal with the book “Lesbassiant” (impatient) by “Emmanuel Colas”, and Cami de Toledo with “Tizi , Sa Nouvelle. In (The New Life of Tizi) by Verdier.
A few minutes after the Goncourt winner was announced, the Ronaudeau Literary Prize was awarded to Mary Ellen Lafon for her novel Estoire du Fais (House of Bouchet-Chastelle), which spanned a century between 1908 and 2008.
The protagonist, Andre, who is being raised by his aunt, discovers a family secret while exploring their family lineage. The author, Dominique Fortier, also won the Ronodeau Prize for Literary Essay for her book “Le Ville de Papier” (House of Grassier).
