Founded while its initiators were waiting for the announcement of the winner of the Femina Prize, the Interallié Prize is awarded each year by a jury of authors and journalists. It includes, in 2024, Jean-Marie Rouart, president, Stéphane Denis, Gilles Martin-Chauffier, Éric Neuhoff, Christophe Ono-dit-Biot, Jean-Christophe Rufin, Jean-René Van der Plaetsen, Florian Zeller and Gaspar Koenig (winner 2023).
In 2020, Thibault de Montaigu won the Prix de Flore for Gracethen published by Plon editions.
I thought I was writing this story for my father, when it was the opposite: he had given this story to me. And every time I open these pages, I will find him as if I were holding his living heart in my hands.” When his sick father urges him to write about his ancestor Louis, captain of the hussars cut down in 1914 in a cavalry charge, Thibault de Montaigu does not yet know what family secret hides this heroic death. Nor why she resonates strangely with the destiny of her own father who is declining day by day. The race against time that he begins to go back to the past turns into a moving investigation in which Proustian characters and war widows, flamboyant lovers and abandoned wives follow one another. Thibault de Montaigu tells us about a lineage haunted by glory and honor. But also what remains of love and courage hidden in the hearts of men.
– The editor’s summary for Heart
Founded while its initiators awaited the announcement of the winner of the Prix Femina, the first Interallié Prize was awarded to André Malraux in 1930 for his work The Royal Way. He generally favors writers who also have a journalistic career, which is the case for Thibault de Montaigu, who worked for Liberationand now assumes the role of editor-in-chief for The Official Travel.
Photo credits: Thibault de Montaigu © Pascal Ito (Albin Michel)
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By Antoine Oury
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