SCAN SPORT – The first volume of the Les vents ovales saga was awarded the La Bibliotèca prize this Thursday at the Senate.
For its third year, the La Bibliotèca prize for Rugby book of the year has tripled. To succeed Didier Cavarot, who inaugurated the list with the chronicles of “Monsieur Rusigby”, and Benoît Jeantet, rewarded last year for his collection of short stories “Le Ciel a des pieds. Mélancolies ovales”, the jury, chaired by senator Philippe Folliot, in fact chose the comic strip Les Vents ovales, and its three creators, the designer Horne as well as the screenwriter Aude Mermilliod and Jean-Louis Tripp.
First volume of a saga which will include three (volume 2, Monique, is also available), Yveline (Dupuis editions, Aire Libre collection) skillfully mixes the daily life of two villages in the South-West, from May 1967 to May 1968 , under the background of emancipation. Rugby cleverly serves as a backdrop to the revolution that is being prepared, from the village priest, incidentally the team's coach (or vice versa…), to the communist activist teacher, including the notable conservative.
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Young women play the main role in this period of change, strong and determined at the dawn of a new era. A small provincial story that mixes with the big one (with judicious historical references in black and white) under the joyful and precise style of Horne. For a breath of fresh air and nostalgia.
A saga imagined, initially, by Jean-Louis Tripp who burned to evoke “the rugby of his childhood”, always marked by the scare of Montauban, his hometown, in 1967 when he was nine years old. “I have very strong memories of it.” He mixed his memories with the feminist cause, directed by his co-writer, Aude Memilliod.
The Bibliotèca Prize for the best rugby work of the past year, endowed with 3,000 euros, was founded by Philippe Folliot, Richard Escot, deputy editor-in-chief of “L'Équipe”, and David Reyrat, in charge of the rugby section at “Figaro”. The other members of the jury are the former player and coach of the XV of France Pierre Berbizier, the former international and TV consultant Laura Di Muzio, the writer Jean Colombier (Prix Renaudot 1990), the deputy director of “Midi Olympique” Emmanuel Massicard, the writer and deputy director of “Figaro Magazine” Jean-Christophe Buisson, the artist-photographer Max Armengaud, and the 2023 winner of this prize, Benoît Jeantet.
