The writer Nathan Hill was awarded the 2024 Grand Prize for American Literature for his novel Well-beingpublished by Gallimard and translated from English by Nathalie Bru.
After Ghosts of the Old Country (Gallimard, 2017), crowned in France with the Foreign Revelation distinction of the magazine LireNathan Hill signs a second novel that is highly appreciated by the press and booksellers. Well-being paints the portrait of a couple, from their formation in Chicago in the 1990s to their disintegration, twenty years later.
Having sold more than 16,000 copies, according to GFK, the title has already won the 2024 Books Hebdo Books Prize, in the “foreign return” category. He also earned a place in the first selection for the Inrockuptibles literary prize. Nathan Hill was also chosen as guest of honor last August at the Deauville film festival, where he was awarded the Lucien Barrière literary prize.
“A social and sentimental fresco”
For its part, the jury of the Grand Prize for American Literature 2024 wished to salute “an impressive social and sentimental fresco, from the 1990s to the present day. Carried by a narrative virtuosity, Well-being focuses as much on the complexity of relationships between people as on the metamorphoses of the city of Chicago and those of contemporary society.
Born in 1975 in Iowa (United States), Nathan Hill grew up in the Midwest. During his childhood, he moved numerous times, following his father's professional ambitions in managing Kmart distribution stores. To a first degree in journalism, the future writer adds a master's degree in creative writing. After working for a time as a journalist, he then taught at the universities of Florida and Minnesota. After the publication of a few short stories in various magazines, he published his first novel, The Ghosts of the Old Country in 2016.
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