Published on November 27, 2024 at 11:00.
She lived for two years in the worker camps of the oil fields of western Canada. To repay a student loan, Kate Beaton was forced to work in the tar sands of Alberta, thousands of kilometers from her native Nova Scotia. Fifteen years later, the author has produced a striking graphic novel, combining her own memories and a documentary vein: Toxic environmentpublished in French by Casterman last year.
This is the first time, since its creation in 2010, that the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature has been awarded to a graphic novel. Awarded in Switzerland, in Montricher, endowed with 50,000 francs, it is intended to be open to all literary genres. Its jury, on which British author Jonathan Coe sits, chose to distinguish a work which “delivers an essential blow to the suffocating omerta of the oil industry and resonates with the contradictions and the sharpest crises of our time .”
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