Abdellah Taïa was rewarded for “ The Bastion of Tears », published by Julliard. “ I am very very very happyhe simply confided on his Instagram account. In pure joy. Thank you with all my heart to the members of the jury: Laure Adler, Christophe Honoré, Arnaud Viviane, Charles Dantzig, Chloé Delaume, Amélie Nothomb, Patricia Martin, Oriane Jeancourt-Galignani, Claude Arnaud, … Thank you also, more than very LOUDLY, to the entire wonderful team at Éditions Julliard and the Editis group… » Abdellah Taïa received his prize on Wednesday October 30, during a dedicated ceremony organized at the Yves Saint Laurent Museum Paris.
In his book “Le Bastion des Larmes”, we discover Youssef, a Moroccan professor exiled in France for a quarter of a century, who returns to Salé, his hometown, after the death of his mother. There, an entire past resurfaces… As Youssef goes deeper into the streets of the current city, a lost world takes shape again, stalked by poverty and violence, where difference, sexual and social, is paid at a high price. .
Note that the Moroccan writer was also rewarded on October 16 with the French Language Prize, created by the city of Brive to reward a personality whose “work has contributed significantly to illustrating the quality and beauty of the French language”. This prize, worth 10,000 euros, will be awarded to Abdellah Taïa on November 8 during the inauguration of the 42nd Brive Book Fair.
