Abdellah Taïa is truly the sensation of this literary season with his new novel “The Bastion of Tears”, published by Julliard. Selected in the second selection of the Prix Goncourt, in the running for the Décembre prize, the Literary Prize of the World, the prestigious Médicis prize and the Grand Prix du Novel of the French Academy, the Moroccan writer was rewarded on Wednesday October 16 , by the French Language Prize.
Created by the city of Brive and endowed with 10,000 euros, this prize is awarded each year to “a personality from the literary, artistic or scientific world» dont «the work contributed significantly to illustrating the quality and beauty of the French language». «Abdellah Taïa writes, with his life, strong texts in which the voice of the oppressed and the marginalized resonates», greets the jury, who will award him his prize on November 8 during the inauguration of the 42nd Brive Book Fair.
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At 51, Abdellah Taïa follows in the footsteps of the great names in French-speaking literature who have been awarded this prize, including Annie Ernaux, Nobel Prize winner for literature, Pierre Assouline, Mona Ouzof and Emmanuel Carrère.
Made up of ten members and chaired by the journalist Jérôme Garcin, the jury for the French Language Prize has the particularity of mixing members of the Académie française (Dany Laferrière, Danièle Sallenave or Antoine Compagnon) and the Académie Goncourt (Tahar Ben Jelloun and Philippe Claudel). It also counts among its members the journalist Laure Adler, the French radio producer Paula Jacques, the film critic and writer Éric Neuhoff, the writer Jean-Noël Pancrazi and the director of Literary Figaro Étienne de Montety.
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