The Prix de Flore goes to the zany novel “Marc”, like Marc Levy

The Flore literary prize, which distinguishes “promising young authors, with insolent and original talent”, was awarded Thursday in Paris to Benjamin Stock for his first novel, “Marc” (Ed. Rue Fromentin), a crazy critique of conspiracyism based on the novels of bestselling French author Marc Levy.

The hero of the book is a start-up manager, David, who thanks to a colleague will discover the existence of a clandestine community of Marc Levy readers. Little by little, David will become convinced that this popular novelist hides communist messages in his plots and the names of his characters.

The winner won with 11 votes to one against Joy Majdalani, during the deliberations at the Café de Flore, in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The Flore Prize was created in 1994 by the writer Frédéric Beigbeder and a café manager, Carole Chrétiennot, who have both remained members of the jury since.

Endowed with 6,150 euros, it has the originality of offering its winner a glass of Pouilly-fumé every day for a year at the famous Parisian café-restaurant, on a glass engraved with his name.

AFP

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