It was in the presence of an audience passionate about literature that the meeting with the writer and reporter Sylvain Prudhomme took place late Friday afternoon at the Les Jacobins library in Fleury-les-Aubrais. , followed by a signing session.
“I was invited by the head of the reading club, who has been introducing my Books since 2005, which really touched me,” smiles the 45-year-old man.
Sylvain Prudhomme is the author of around ten novels and reports, some of them set in contemporary Africa, where he lived and worked.
The story of a hitchhiking trip
This talented novelist, with a generous style imbued with humanism, has been distinguished on several occasions, notably for his works The Big Ones , Legend et By the roads which earned him the Femina Prize in 2019.
This evening began with a presentation by Sylvain Prudhomme, accompanied by numerous discussions aimed at informing all readers about his motivations and his work. It continued with a dedication of his books, in particular of his novel Coyote published last October. “This is the story of a trip that I took by hitchhiking during the year 2019 to the US-Mexico border, at a time when President Trump wanted to build a wall to fight against illegal immigration and drug trafficking,” says the author. “My various works retrace, for the most part, life-changing encounters. » Enough to arouse “curiosity, interest in others or even confidence in life”.
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